Unit 731 organization
also: Ishii's biological warfare group, Ishii's group, the former 731s, Ishii's Unit 731, 731, 731 unit
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Shiro Ishii headed
Unit 731 documented
“As a result of not warning everybody what they were. So we're going to finish up Unit 731 today. This chapter is called the NATO document and the hunt for Ishii, which is the general that was the Unit 731 commander.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 1:15
Unit 731 member_of
Japanese Army book_quoted
“Detachment 31 was formed by command of the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, by a decree that was issued in 1936. Until 1941, the detachment had no designator. It was simply called Water Supply and Prophylactics Administration of the Japanese Arm…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 20:55
United States funded
Unit 731 book_quoted
“Over a year after the war had ended, the intelligence services were still referring to Ishii as a general. In this message alone, it is shown that there is no doubt that humans were experimented on. Data already obtained from Ishii and his …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 21:26
The Medusa Files cited_as_source
Unit 731 book_quoted
“So he is now convinced that there's much more to many more stories than what the American people had been told. So the book starts off in chapter one with the devil's unit, which is unit 731, the infamous Japanese biological and chemical.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 7:38
Shiro Ishii headed
Unit 731 book_quoted
“the importance of the project and his identity and attachment to it. Unfortunately for Takeda and his cousin, several people survived and later identified them. The camp was actually started in 1933 by Lieutenant Colonel Ishi. He eventually…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 18:45
Shiro Ishii founded
Unit 731 book_quoted
“the importance of the project and his identity and attachment to it. Unfortunately for Takeda and his cousin, several people survived and later identified them. The camp was actually started in 1933 by Lieutenant Colonel Ishi. He eventually…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 18:45
U.S. State Department covered_up
Unit 731 book_quoted
“who at the time was feeling heat from the USSR, this document was submitted. It's called the Interrogation of Certain Japanese by Russian Prosecutor. The Department of State cannot approve the proposal in, and they put the name of the docum…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 26:55
Dr. Naito member_of
Unit 731 host_asserted
“was that Naito was a member of Unit 731. And he knew who all the others were and where they were located. In the following weeks, Sanders set up an office at Daishi Building in Tokyo. That was the location of MacArthur's headquarters. And w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 5:57
Hisato Yashimura member_of
Unit 731 host_asserted
“to increase germs effectiveness by human cultivation, and who was responsible for testing at least one germ bomb on prisoners, joined the staff of Kyoto University and became a professor of bacteriology. Dr. Hisato Yashimura, the frostbite …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 38:43
Nayato member_of
Unit 731 host_asserted
“later becoming its president. Kaneko, who was the unit's bomb expert, joined the Japanese National Institute of Health and continued bacteriological research. Colonel Sanders' interpreter, Nayato, fared even better. He opened a blood bank. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 39:13
United States covered_up
Unit 731 host_asserted
“No matter how immoral or illegal, all you had to do was use the phrase national security and classify it. Never to be seen again. In an effort to hide the existence of Unit 731 from the public and the branches of government mandated to care…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 42:50
Pappy Wachow exposed
Unit 731 host_asserted
“That completely reported the incident. They had no way to approve the claim. It was because of this that the veterans, such as Pappy Wachow and Greg Rodriguez, banded together and organized an effort to bring the matter before Congress. It …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 43:50
Unit 731 member_of
Japan book_quoted
“Both of them had the war criminals from Japan and Germany present there, conducting both chemical and biological warfare capability. The material provided by Ishii's Unit 731 personnel, who were busily compiling documents detailing all of t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 6:16
Shiro Ishii headed
Unit 731 book_quoted
“Both of them had the war criminals from Japan and Germany present there, conducting both chemical and biological warfare capability. The material provided by Ishii's Unit 731 personnel, who were busily compiling documents detailing all of t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 6:16
Soviet Union spied_on
Unit 731 host_asserted
“It was then that they discovered the biological weapons experiments that had taken place and the majority of Ishii's group that had evaded capture and had evidently made it back to Japan. These findings were further reinforced when several …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7 @ 49:25
Hirohito ordered_assassination_of
Unit 731 book_quoted
“Detachment 31 was formed by command of the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, by a decree that was issued in 1936. Until 1941, the detachment had no designator. It was simply called Water Supply and Prophylactics Administration of the Japanese Arm…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 20:55
Prince Chikahisa Takeda member_of
Unit 731 book_quoted
“Taquita, who we learned about in the Gold Warriors of all books. That's the guy that was making business to the Philippines to hide all of the gold they were selling from all over Southeast Asia. Prince Taquita was basically the administrat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 17:41
Japan funded
Unit 731 documented
“And if you guys recall, when we did the Asia part, we talked not really in depth, but we did cover it. The biological lab that was set up by the Japanese in Manchuria and Unit 731 and basically how they did a lot of the same experiments tha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 1:37:50
Murray Sanders threatened
Unit 731 host_asserted
“One doctor after another, one biologist after another, one scientist after another. Colonel Sanders began collecting all of this information. And he was initially finding out that not all of the doctors wanted to talk. So what he would do i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 7:01
Unit 731 carried_out_attack
United States host_asserted
“crawled in with a set of blueprints. The plans were the diagrams of a biological bomb. The man then said a hundred of these bombs had been constructed, that several had been tested by detonate them in the center of a range where the prisone…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 14:13
Murray Sanders interrogated
Unit 731 host_asserted
“Sanders was stunned. Sanders returned to MacArthur, but was told to keep investigating. The statement provided by one unknown person wasn't enough to stop the deal. None of the statements were enough to stop the deal. It didn't matter how g…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 14:43
Shiro Ishii headed
Unit 731 host_asserted
“broader, expansive war crimes definition so that they didn't have to try as many people. Plus they were rat lighting them out day and night to save the scientist. Technically, it didn't matter which definition they used. Ishii's group fell …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 35:39
Unit 731 carried_out_attack
China host_asserted
“He bombed civilian cities with disease carrying bombs. He spread plague with flea infested rats. He injected civilian prisoners with various bacteria and poisons. He used civilians, men, women, and children, babies and pregnant women in exp…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 36:44
Kozo Okamoto member_of
Unit 731 host_asserted
“in the years after. Many ignoring Ishii's orders not to seek public jobs or teaching positions entered academia and became respected citizens of Japan. Others made fortunes in private industry doing medical research. Dr. Kozo Okamoto was a …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 37:45
Kazu Kabe member_of
Unit 731 host_asserted
“Experiments on prisoners became a professor at Kyoto University and director of medical department. He later became a professor emeritus of the university and medical director of Kinki University in Osaka. Dr. Kazu Kabe, who fed typhoid ger…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 38:16
Green Cross Corporation front_for
Unit 731 caller_asserted
“Sanders is evil. He was part of the protection of Unit 731. He returned to Fort Detrick and later worked with Green Cross, the pharmaceutical company established by Unit 731 members. You are absolutely right. He did. And that pharmaceutical…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 54:47
U.S. Congress declassified
Unit 731 host_asserted
“That completely reported the incident. They had no way to approve the claim. It was because of this that the veterans, such as Pappy Wachow and Greg Rodriguez, banded together and organized an effort to bring the matter before Congress. It …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 43:50
Pappy Welcher member_of
Unit 731 book_quoted
“He spent the next three years of his life as one of 1,485 American and British prisoners of war that were sent to this special prison camp in Manchuria, ran by the infamous Japanese doctor Ishii. He took his work very seriously. He was rela…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 17:09
Greg Rodriguez member_of
Unit 731 book_quoted
“was in the control group, then you couldn't attribute that symptom to the people that you were experimenting on. That's how detailed they were. One experiment conducted on Americans, Japanese medical technicians came into the barracks when …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 37:35
Dr. Brennan member_of
Unit 731 book_quoted
“Dr. Brennan, an Australian, reported that one day the camp guards came into the camp, singled out 150 Americans, lined them up, marched them out of the camp, and they never came back. And they were never heard of again. Of those that stayed…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 38:28
Frank James member_of
Unit 731 book_quoted
“Dr. Brennan, an Australian, reported that one day the camp guards came into the camp, singled out 150 Americans, lined them up, marched them out of the camp, and they never came back. And they were never heard of again. Of those that stayed…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 38:28
Unit 731 carried_out_attack
Japanese Army host_asserted
“In these, a prisoner was placed on the table, sometimes administered anesthesia and other times not. They were cut open to observe the progress of various diseases. By 1944, the Unit 731 was ready to begin offensive operations. They were ea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 40:01
Unit 731 attempted_assassination_of
United States host_asserted
“In these, a prisoner was placed on the table, sometimes administered anesthesia and other times not. They were cut open to observe the progress of various diseases. By 1944, the Unit 731 was ready to begin offensive operations. They were ea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 40:01
United States spied_on
Unit 731 host_asserted
“And that they were never to see each other again. And they couldn't talk about any of this. We know that didn't happen. Because fortunately, there were survivors, at least from America. The Unit 731 and its activities were no secret to Amer…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 43:24
Shiro Ishii ordered_assassination_of
Unit 731 host_asserted
“This was all happening around mid-August. And the next day after they put all those detonations out and was blowing shit up, the emperor announced the surrender. And Ishii had talked to all of the people before they got on the train and sai…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 42:56
Unit 731 carried_out_attack
Balloon Bomb Attacks book_quoted
“Now, keep in mind that we had the balloon from China go across the entire United States. They experimented with a balloon bomb. It was manufactured at this unit 731. These large rice paper and rubberized silk balloons designed to carry chol…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 29:42
Unit 731 recruited
Volker Weissheimer host_asserted
“goes from World War II, Unit 731, and the scientists involved in that, and the particular scientists, it names them, that came over from Germany that went to Fort Detrick and to the Air Force Aeromedical that was working on all of those hei…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 1:08:03
Mentions (50)
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And if you guys recall, when we did the Asia part, we talked not really in depth, but we did cover it. The biological lab that was set up by the Japanese in Manchuria and Unit 731 and basically how they did a lot of the same experiments tha…
▶ 1:39:03
They had Chinese people experimented on by that 731 unit there that the Japanese had. Basically, the stuff that had went on in Germany with the Nazis went on in China with the Japanese military. And so Steller's absolutely right. They were …
▶ 7:38
So he is now convinced that there's much more to many more stories than what the American people had been told. So the book starts off in chapter one with the devil's unit, which is unit 731, the infamous Japanese biological and chemical.…
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Definitely understand that if you want to read that book. It is a horrific book of what they did to these Baten death march people. But it pales in comparison to what some of the survivors of that had happened to them because they were depo…
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He spent the next three years of his life as one of 1,485 American and British prisoners of war that were sent to this special prison camp in Manchuria, ran by the infamous Japanese doctor Ishii. He took his work very seriously. He was rela…
▶ 18:45
the importance of the project and his identity and attachment to it. Unfortunately for Takeda and his cousin, several people survived and later identified them. The camp was actually started in 1933 by Lieutenant Colonel Ishi. He eventually…
▶ 19:50
to specific genetics. Does that sound familiar? There were Japanese Mongols, Russians, Koreans, and then the Americans and the Brits and several other nationalities of POWs that were shipped in, as well as a lot of the indigenous locals, be…
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Detachment 31 was formed by command of the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, by a decree that was issued in 1936. Until 1941, the detachment had no designator. It was simply called Water Supply and Prophylactics Administration of the Japanese Arm…
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The detachment number 731 was given in an order that was published on 1941 by the army as an official military entity. The doctors that staffed that unit came from civilian universities and hospitals in Japan. At a meeting in 1934, a list o…
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That document was a scroll that listed research teams that should be formed to look into microbiology and pathology. After three years of 731's operation, Ishii was promoted to colonel. By that time, the facility had grown to over 3,000 peo…
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or experimentees, were wounded in the legs. Seven days later, they died in great torment. Between 500 and 600 prisoners were consigned to Unit 731 every year. Gotta keep a fresh supply of meat to experiment on. According to Major General Ka…
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Now, keep in mind that we had the balloon from China go across the entire United States. They experimented with a balloon bomb. It was manufactured at this unit 731. These large rice paper and rubberized silk balloons designed to carry chol…
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nearby lakes and then left them out in the snow until they got frostbite. And then they would try to unthaw the frostbite to see if you could reinvigorate the limbs. It's crazy. In the 12 years of the unit's existence, dozens of diseases we…
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In these, a prisoner was placed on the table, sometimes administered anesthesia and other times not. They were cut open to observe the progress of various diseases. By 1944, the Unit 731 was ready to begin offensive operations. They were ea…
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And that they were never to see each other again. And they couldn't talk about any of this. We know that didn't happen. Because fortunately, there were survivors, at least from America. The Unit 731 and its activities were no secret to Amer…
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Sanders is evil. He was part of the protection of Unit 731. He returned to Fort Detrick and later worked with Green Cross, the pharmaceutical company established by Unit 731 members. You are absolutely right. He did. And that pharmaceutical…
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Medusa File Part 3. I don't know where everybody's at. I don't know where Bridget's at. I know she's around today. All right. We started this on Friday, and we covered the Unit 731 and them sending all of their …
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As a result of not warning everybody what they were. So we're going to finish up Unit 731 today. This chapter is called the NATO document and the hunt for Ishii, which is the general that was the Unit 731 commander.…
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and von Rippentrop went to the gallows, other men, as guilty if not more so, were spirited away by the OSS. For Ishii, salvation came in the form of Colonel Murray Sanders. He was stationed at Camp Dietrich. His specialty was chemical warfa…
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was that Naito was a member of Unit 731. And he knew who all the others were and where they were located. In the following weeks, Sanders set up an office at Daishi Building in Tokyo. That was the location of MacArthur's headquarters. And w…
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inquiries into where all of the Japanese doctors, biologists, blah, blah, blah, scientists that were part of Unit 731. This was very useful information because according to official records, there was no such thing as Unit 731 because all o…
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try something else. He produced what became known as the Naito document. It was 12 pages of handwritten paper, gave the entire structure of Unit 731, including the chain of command, and who it reported to back at the Japanese government. Th…
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The Vice Chief of General Staffs and the Chief of Bureau of Warfare had the fear that the fact that Japan had some laboratories for biological warfare will bring a big misfortune on the Emperor. So, with all of that out of the way, it was a…
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I beg you to keep this information secret. Nayato feared for his life. Sanders then knew that he was a member of the unit in question, and he knew that there were other members that were around as well, but he had reached an impasse. The Ja…
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in 1946 to report the results of his investigation to Fort Detrick. After producing the Naito document and explaining his findings, he began to grow ill. He had contacted tuberculosis and would not be sent back to Japan. Was he poisoned? Th…
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biological weapons. The Unit 731 matter was turned over to another officer to follow up. No one at Fort Detrick seemed to be concerned about the reports of human experimentation. Why would they be? They're going to continue to do it. Instea…
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As each case came to trial and was disposed of, headlines announced the sentence. From varying prison terms that ranged from hangings to prisonment, not a single Unit 731 person was among the list. Just like none of the worst, Germans were …
▶ 18:22
Personnel involved in dealing with the Japanese biological warfare experts in Japan found themselves faced with a very tricky situation. They had to somehow get the information required by higher headquarters from their former enemies, make…
▶ 25:50
Such moves on the part of the military would not normally have involved the State Department unless plans were being made to bring them to the United States. There is also the possibility that the State Department became involved because th…
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introduce evidence of experiments conducted on human beings by Ishii and his biological warfare group, which experiments do not differ greatly from those for which this government is now prosecuting German scientists. So everybody's acknowl…
▶ 35:39
broader, expansive war crimes definition so that they didn't have to try as many people. Plus they were rat lighting them out day and night to save the scientist. Technically, it didn't matter which definition they used. Ishii's group fell …
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using the Soviet Union big boogeyman, they decided that was going to provide the cover for justifying protecting Ishii. Under the secret protection of this covert clique of intelligence officials, not one senior officer of Unit 731 was ever…
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From a guy that the OSS slash CIA slash military protected, killing thousands of Americans later on with tainted blood. The settlement ended up being like over $600,000 at the end of the day. But again, it took years. He was a Unit 731 doct…
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No matter how immoral or illegal, all you had to do was use the phrase national security and classify it. Never to be seen again. In an effort to hide the existence of Unit 731 from the public and the branches of government mandated to care…
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If it had not been for those men coming forward, the existence of Unit 731 and its crimes and the government cover-up would have never been disclosed. So, that doesn't make your blood boil. I don't know what does. Okay, that's the end of th…
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thanks to the Soviet Union. It was the Soviet Union that came into that area that rescued, and that's a fact that's never talked about. They are the ones that rescued the Americans and British soldiers out of the Manchuria camps of Unit 731…
▶ 16:05
and viral agents could be identified, mass produced, and suitable vectors chosen, meaning how to deploy them. Like Unit 731, the Germans were having developmental and research problems in the biological warfare on the deployment side. Germa…
▶ 16:34
Bizarre cases of experiments on various races were being done to determine their susceptibility to diseases, climate, diet, and pain. They attempted to transplant organs, change eye color, and even blood type. Most resulted in the death of …
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from Nuremberg. By the spring of 46, policymakers in the State Department, War Department, and a coordination committee were in a quandary. Besides having to deal with Ishii and the Unit 731 personnel, they were now faced with how to procee…
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how many experiments they've conducted on the military since bringing the Nazis in, in Unit 731. But theirs was not isolated just to the military. They experimented on civilians in Los Angeles as well. Frederick Hoffman, who was a chemist a…
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of experimenting on humans as if they, I mean, worse than animals, these experiments. We're talking like in the case of 731 with the live autopsies. These people don't belong among the general population. They don't belong, they don't even …
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Both of them had the war criminals from Japan and Germany present there, conducting both chemical and biological warfare capability. The material provided by Ishii's Unit 731 personnel, who were busily compiling documents detailing all of t…
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Again, you just can't hate these people enough. The exposure being investigated occurred in late January 1991 when the Czechoslovakia experts in chemical warfare detected the traces of sarin gas in areas occupied by the Allied forces. Still…
▶ 1:08:03
goes from World War II, Unit 731, and the scientists involved in that, and the particular scientists, it names them, that came over from Germany that went to Fort Detrick and to the Air Force Aeromedical that was working on all of those hei…
▶ 46:57
Toward Siberian gulags, even more Japanese were being brought into the Asian Soviet Union. Imperial Japanese army soldiers captured in the last few weeks of the war in Manchuria and Korea, in the last minutes Russia had gathered them all up…
▶ 48:24
who had not entered the war against Japan until the last few weeks, kept custody of the Japanese was because they had discovered what was happening in secret in Tokyo. In anticipation of the Cold War, the Americans using intelligence operat…
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that rushed across the border into Manchuria and found Unit 731. They had captured several of the people that had remained there. Though the American, British, and Australian POWs held in these locations were released within a few weeks, th…
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It was then that they discovered the biological weapons experiments that had taken place and the majority of Ishii's group that had evaded capture and had evidently made it back to Japan. These findings were further reinforced when several …
▶ 49:55
If this was so, then the information they had was invaluable to whoever caught them. But the majority of the troops that occupied Japan were the Americans. That meant that unless the Soviet Union could force the Ishii people into public lig…
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Unless he and all of his 731 personnel were apprehended and tried, and the information concerning their experiments exposed, the Japanese government would find it hard to negotiate a return of their prisoners. When pressed for numbers, the …