Posted on 02/16/2010 4:15:58 PM PST by TennesseeGirl
More than 60 years after the end of the Second World War, the name "Unit 731" still has the power to generate shock, revulsion and denial in Japan.
The Imperial Japanese Army's notorious medical research team carried out secret human experiments regarded as some of the worst war crimes in history.
Its scientists subjected more than 10,000 people per year to grotesque Josef Mengele-style torture in the name of science, including captured Russian soldiers and downed American aircrews.
The experiments included hanging people upside down until they choked, burying them alive, injecting air into their veins and placing them in high-pressure chambers....
Now new detail about their victims' suffering could be revealed after the authorities in Tokyo announced plans to open an investigation into human bones thought to have come from the unit...
Acting on information from a former nurse, the authorities have announced they will re-examine the remains to determine whether they were used in some of the barbaric experiments carried out by Unit 731 in the dying days of the Second World War.
Toyo Ishii came forward to say that during the weeks after Japan's surrender in August 1945, she and her colleagues at the army hospital were ordered to bury corpses, bones and body parts – she said it was impossible to determine how many people they came from – before the Allies arrived.
Unit 731 was mostly active in China, where it carried out biological, bacteriological and chemical weapons tests on civilians and prisoners of war, including Russian soldiers and Americans. excerpted
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/7236099/Human-bones-could-reveal-truth-of-Japans-Unit-731-experiments.html
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And there are people out there who still rail at the US for dropping two nukes on these animals. I don’t get it.
The Pacific was a war without mercy, and deservedly so.
Nice people the japs - rape of Nan-King, most of asia and it was American fault to end the war with two bombs.
Some sheeple are feckless cowards...
Read a book by a former Japanese POW that was so horrific I could not finish the first chapter.
Their barbarism has no parallel.
We also bought The Rape of Nanking to keep as part of our library.
This is terrible. Carrying out experiments on foreign civilians, and prisoners of war.
At least here in the US, we only do that to our own soldiers.
“Their barbarism has no parallel.”
IIRC, they even shocked visiting Nazis with their brutality...
Amen.
Wherever Nietzsche rears his ugly head this will follow. There is no moral penalty for the “superior” to do as they will with the “inferior”. Or so the eugenicists think. Funny how the “supermen” were defeated so horribly.
However, TODAY I would prefer have a million Japanese at my back, rather than ONE muslim at my side!
What you say is not PC. I have seen and heard about the Japs behavior in the war. I have seen, and cannot unsee, some of their really sick porn. I have no clue why that society has survived over time.
I get ill every time I watch the show on the Raid at Cabanatuan and what lead up to it.
I believe ALL of this, and have spoken with J. soldiers who fought in Manchu-kuo.
Nazi germany had consulate in Nanking, and during the weeks-long massacre there (of hundreds of thousands, including babies and pregnant women) the cruelty was soooo horrible that officers of the Third Reich shielded hundreds of defenseless Chinese from the ravages of the JIA there.
There was a book written about it.
Most of the outside world knows little about Unit 731 —much of the take of their results was confiscated by the US Military, which at that point was preparing for the specter of biowarfare on the then-brewing Korean peninsula.
And of course our “good” (LMFAO) democratic president made it illegal to sue the jap government and businesses after WW11. They are all sorry sobs.
Read “Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army†It covers the modern Japanese Army. From the beginnings in 1870 to the end of it in 1945. The Author, Meirion Harries tries to figure out what made the Japanese Military turn into such an evil machine. And for the record no Americans were involved making the Japs into a modern force, sorry Tom Cruise.
Most of their advisers were French, actually.
As bad as the Nazis were, the Japanese made them look like amateurs.
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