Japan initiated its biological weapons program during the 1930s due to the prohibition of biological weapons in interstate conflicts by the Geneva Protocol of 1925. They reasoned … 詳細

There are unit members who were known to be interned at the Fushun War Criminals Management Centre and Taiyuan War Criminals … 詳細

Unit 731 had other units underneath it in the chain of command; there were several other units under the auspice of Japan's biological weapons programs 詳細

The military police and the Special Services Agency were responsible for finding victims to be test subjects for the unit, while a group of physicians was responsible for … 詳細

After Japan's defeat in World War II, the Japanese murdered every single prisoner in the unit. The bodies were then buried in the unit 731 grounds after … 詳細

Unit 731 was divided into eight divisions:
• Division 1: research on bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax, typhoid, and tuberculosis using live human … 詳細

Operations and experiments continued until the end of the war. Ishii had wanted to use biological weapons in the Pacific War since … 詳細