The building was the headquarters in China of the Imperial Japanese Army’s Unit 731. And Shimizu finally told his wife that he had been a member of the infamous biological warfare unit that used ...

IIDA, Nagano Prefecture—Hideo Shimizu has been frustrated by the reluctance of a peace memorial museum here to display panels about the infamous Unit 731, where he worked during World War II.

JAPAN's "Unit 731" committed some of the most notorious war crimes the world has ever seen. A notorious branch of the imperial Japanese army, it carried out horrifying human experiments and ...

The Anda site was destroyed by Unit 731 in August 1945 along with other facilities to erase evidence of its experiments. “Most of the surface buildings were destroyed except for the runway ...

Photo taken on May 4, 2024 shows the document containing detailed information about military personnel from Unit 731 (photocopy) released by the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by ...

Unit 731 explores a side of WWII history that is largely unknown to the Western World. Documenting the development of WWII from the perspective of the Far East Front, the story of the gruesome ...

What’s really scary is, I don’t have any nightmares of what I’ve done.” —Ken Yuasa, Japanese army doctor Unit 731 was a Japanese research program during World War II that conducted horrific ...

A researcher displays the copy of a document containing detailed information about military personnel from Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare unit during World War II, at the Exhibition Hall of ...