Microbiologist Shirō Ishii, head of Unit 731, believed that the prohibitions on weapons only confirmed their high effectiveness in military actions. Brutal experiments were conducted on prisoners ...

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 ...

FORGOTTEN HISTORY Unit 731 - World War II Posted: February 14, 2025 | Last updated: February 14, 2025 In 1937 Japan created Unit 731 as a medical engineering unit responsible for testing ...

But Unit 731 was staffed by physicians and others with medical training ... And in 1931, the army gave in, creating a BW research program and making Ishii its head. Ishii would often describe two ...

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.