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Unit 731
The latest stories and articles on Unit 731, a covert military unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, based in the Pingfang District of Harbin, Manchukuo, now Northeast China. Its primary mission was biological and chemical warfare research and development. Active from 1936 to 1945, the unit engaged in lethal human experimentation, including vivisection and disease injection, on prisoners. Unit 731 is infamous for its horrific war crimes and atrocities, leading to thousands of deaths. Its personnel received immunity from prosecution post-war in exchange for their research data.
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China urged to sue over Japanese royal’s role in Unit 731 crimes

Emperor Hirohito should be held accountable, according to scholars who say the wartime ruler was shielded from prosecution by US policy.

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Chinese film 731’s historical hiccups eclipse anti-Japanese fears

US records shed light on Western victims of Japan’s WWII human experiments

Newly digitised American military archives and a fresh generation of historians are focusing attention on crimes that have faded from memory.

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