A top-secret and mostly unknown factor in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was the building known as Unit 731 located in Manchuria, China. General Shiro Ishii created Unit 731, saying that it was a center for Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army. In truth, it was a giant medical laboratory that preformed inhumane medical experiments in hopes to perfect Japan's bio-chemical warfare.
General Ishii wanted to become to father of bio-chemical warfare, even though it had been banned by the Geneva Protocol after World War I. During World War II, even though bio-chemical warfare was not used in battle in Europe, it was used by the Japanese and Italians. From 1937 to 1945, Unit 731 was in use and preformed its cruel experiments.
Some of the experiments included vivisection, which is dissection of the body while alive and not under anesthesia, putting people in giant refrigerators to study frostbite and gangrene, injecting people with various bacteria and viruses, putting people in high-pressure chambers, and hanging people upside down until they choked. The Japanese doctors also bred rats and fleas that carried the bubonic plague. Giant balloons were filled with fleas and sent over nearby villages, infecting the local people. Overall, hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian men, women, and children were tortured and killed as part of the experimentation as well as Allied prisoners of war.
Noburo Kamada, one of the doctors at Unit 731, now speaks more openly about the experiments since the death of Emperor Hirohito and explains one of the experiments he preformed while the patient was still conscious: "I inserted the scalpel directly from the [prisoner's] neck and opened the chest...at first there was a terrible scream, but the voice soon fell silent." He also explains about preparing the starving patients for their cruel surgery: "Unless you work with a healthy body, you can't get results. So if we had a spy who was unhealthy...we would feed him good food and make him exercise. It was the height of cruelty."
Tsuneji Shimada also remembered the experiments of his dysentery research while at Unit 731: "We did not experiment on soldiers, but we carried out dissections. normally we gave them infected material to drink and carried out autopsies to ascertain the symptoms. We had to observe the progress (of the diseases) we had to ascertain the potency of the various viruses."
After the war, America did not prosecute Japanese officials in exchange for the medical information gather in Unit 731, most of which is still used today. At the time, medical experiments on people were considered immoral and the information from Unit 731 was the most accurate available. Still, even though the Japanese were not prosecuted for their crimes doesn't mean it wasn't immoral.
A doctor preforming a vivisection on a Chinese child. Most of the patients were operated on while alive and not under any pain medications.
"Unit 731." Unit 731 Experimental Camp. Web. 06 Mar. 2011. <http://www.unit-731.com/>.
"Unit 731." Unit 731 Experimental Camp. Web. 06 Mar. 2011. <http://www.unit-731.com/>.
The dead bodies of patients after they had been experimented on. After dying they were stripped of their clothing and sent to incinerators similar to ones used in Nazi death camps.
"Unit 731." Unit 731 Experimental Camp. Web. 06 Mar. 2011. <http://www.unit-731.com/>.
A Unit 731 doctor vivisecting a pregnant girl who had his baby after being raped. The doctors at Unit 731 had no morals and didn't even see the victims as real people. They called them "logs".
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A giant balloon will with fleas carrying the bubonic plague. The infected fleas were unleashed on the innocent people in towns nearby Unit 731, causing a wave of the bubonic plague to break out.
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Kistof, Nicholas D. "UNIT 731 Unlocking a Deadly Secret." Kathi's Mental Health Review - The Book 5150, Infantilism, BPD, Advocacy and More. Web. 15 Mar. 2011. <http://www.toddlertime.com/bobbystringer/unit-731.htm>.
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