Shimizu is not alone. His testimony is part of a wave of revelations that began in the late 1980s following the death of Emperor Hirohito. Dark episodes of Japan’s history — including Unit 731 — ...

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 ...

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The Imperial Japanese Army demolished Unit 731 facilities and destroyed related documents immediately before the war ended. It is said that former members were ordered not to disclose the unit’s ...

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 ...

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When a Reddit user posted the question, “What are some disturbing facts you wish you didn’t know?” people quickly jumped in ...

Japan's NHK broadcasted a program on the crimes committed by Japanese Unit 731 during World War II.

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese ordnance disposal experts plan to defuse two suspected World War II-era bombs found last ...

Directed against China, the onslaught was spearheaded by a notorious division of the Imperial Army called Unit 731. In occupied Manchuria, starting around 1936, Japanese scientists used scores of ...

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 ...