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.

For decades, the nightmarish legacy of Japan's Unit 731 during World War II has been shrouded in secrecy, but a new scientific study is bringing much-needed attention to this dark chapter in ...

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 ...

Sworn to secrecy by the Japanese Imperial Army, Hideo Shimizu carried the horrors he saw at the notorious Unit 731 facility with him for more than 70 years. The 93-year-old was just 14 when he was ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a derelict "terror" bunker in Anda, China, that was used by Japan's notorious Unit 731 to conduct heinous biological experiments on allied POWs during World War 2 ...

The facility is near Anda in the Heilongjiang province in north-east China, and is known to have been used for several years by Unit 731 - a branch of the Japanese Imperial Army that carried out ...

Cognitive Dissonance, Social Psychology, and Unit 731 ... Being in a world-class research facility headed by one of the most revered scientists at the time influenced subjects’ moral reasoning and ...