Shimizu spent over four months with Unit 731 before fleeing with retreating Japanese forces. When he returned home, he was told never to speak about what he had seen. For over 70 years, he didn’t.

Shimizu’s days with Unit 731 didn’t last long because Soviet forces invaded the former Manchuria in the following month of August. On Aug. 12, ...

Unit 731 - World War II. Posted: June 5, 2025 | Last updated: June 14, 2025. In 1937 Japan created Unit 731 as a medical engineering unit responsible for testing, producing and storing biological ...

Inside Japan's hellish 'Unit 731' where WW2 inmates were raped to infect them with syphilis, PoWs burnt alive in flamethrower practice and children given 'anthrax chocolates' in horrific human ...

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 exper… ...

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 exper… ...

Unit 731 was a Japanese research program during World War II that conducted horrific experiments such as infecting subjects with plague, giving subjects frostbite (Barenblatt, 2004), and cutting ...

The unit's researchers developed ways to weaponise bubonic plague, anthrax, cholera and typhoid fever Credit: Getty. It is thought to be the largest test site of Japan's infamous Unit 731, which ...

The "horror bunker," discovered near the city of Anda in Heilongjiang province, northeast China, was used by the Japanese army's infamous Unit 731 during Japan's occupation of China from 1931 to 1945.