Members of notorious Unit 731 of Japan’s Imperial Army perform
ghastly tests on one of its Chinese ‘subjects,’ in a slide released
by the Jilin Provincial Archives. According to the materials, in
place of the phrase ‘biological warfare’ was a code name – ‘plague
prevention’ – which kept the documents from being discovered.
Coinciding with a release of documents by Tokyo that show how the U.S. performed biological experiments in Japan, Taiwan, and the United States, China’s state-run Xinhua is reporting that new research has unearthed documents that record the activities of Japan’s notorious Unit 731, which practiced biological warfare against Chinese, Russian, Koreans and others on a massive scale. Is there a connection between the two sets of ‘revelations’?
By Shen Qing
CHANGCHUN: Newly-released documents reveal evidence of biological warfare crimes and atrocities committed by Japanese Unit 731 during World War II.
The documents released on Friday by the Jilin Provincial Archives regarding “biological warfare” show in detail the activities of Japanese troops in forming “bacteria forces” in its colonies, and using human beings for experiments on developing biological weapons.
The documents, dated from 1936 to 1945, include 81 folders containing more than 400 pages and over 70 audio and video recordings.
According to a Japanese military police report from Aug. 9, 1937, in place of the phrase “biological warfare” was a code name – “plague prevention.” Starting then, all matters related to “biological warfare” were referred to by Japan’s military with the code name.
“This explains why so few mentions of Japanese biological warfare could be found in public documentation,” said Gao Wei, leader of the Jilin Provincial Archives.
A large number of the documents recorded that 372 people were sent to Unit 731, a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development team – for “Special Transfer.” Such people were from China, the-then Soviet Union, and Korea.
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“Special Transfer” refers to prisoners who, as far as the “bacteria forces” were concerned, no longer had any experimental use, said Gao.
The documents also record an order by the Kwantung Army to catch rats [The Kwantung Army was the highest echelon of the Japanese Imperial Army]. Japanese Imperial Troops handed out to citizens more than 20,000 rat-traps, asking them to catch 450,000 rats. The army rewarded those who caught the most.
The documents say that Ishii Shiro, who was in charge of biological warfare, had attended “plague prevention” meetings on several occasions.
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Gao argued that the purpose of catching rats was to develop plague.
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