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 ...

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… ...

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.

He also read a book that claimed Unit 731 was a “hoax.” Shimizu said he felt like his experience was being denied, and that certain people were intent on distorting historical facts.

The man who succeeded Ishii Shiro as commander of Unit 731, Dr Masaji Kitano, became head of Japan's largest pharmaceutical company, the Green Cross.

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 ...

Unit 731 established a massive 150-building complex in the Pingfang District of Harbin (then part of the puppet state of Manchuria), where it developed and tested its weapons on involuntary human ...

Atrocities committed by Japanese Army Unit 731, a germ warfare unit once stationed in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, have been further exposed in newly found historical documents.

Photo taken on April 18, 2014 shows a sculpture at the Unit 731 ruins and sites in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. File Photo: Xinhua A Chinese blogger known for ...

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Hideo Shimizu was 14 when he was drafted to the city of Harbin in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. He bore witness to some of history's worst atrocities.