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Unit 731 (Q378835)

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biological and chemical warfare research and development unit in the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army (1935-1945)
  • Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army
  • Kantōgun Bōeki Kyūsuibu Honbu
  • Manchuria Unit 731
  • Manshu Detachment 731
  • Kamo Detachment
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    Unit 731
    biological and chemical warfare research and development unit in the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army (1935-1945)
    • Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army
    • Kantōgun Bōeki Kyūsuibu Honbu
    • Manchuria Unit 731
    • Manshu Detachment 731
    • Kamo Detachment

    Statements

    inception
    1935
    0 references
    facet of
    historical negationism
    applies to part
    Japanese government information censorship, denial or non-acknowledgement of Unit 731 atrocities
    American cover-up of Japanese war crimes
    4 references
    reference URL
    https://medium.com/leadership-counts/pardoning-devils-the-american-cover-up-of-imperial-japanese-unit-731-504f966cf08d
    title
    Pardoning Devils: The American Cover Up of Imperial Japanese Unit 731 (English)
    publication date
    27 January 2021
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    17 April 2024
    author name string
    Center for Junior Officers
    reference URL
    https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/unit-731/#:~:text=Upon%20the%20formal%20surrender%20of,apologize%20for%20what%20had%20happened.
    title
    Unit 731 - Nuclear Museum (English)
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    17 April 2024
    author name string
    Avani Sihra
    publication date
    4 May 2018
    reference URL
    https://healthnet.jp/paper/2015%E5%B9%B4/%E7%AC%AC2938%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%802015%E5%B9%B48%E6%9C%8820%E6%97%A5/%E7%89%B9%E9%9B%862%E8%AC%9B%E6%BC%94%E9%8C%B2%E3%80%80731%E9%83%A8%E9%9A%8A%E3%81%AE%E6%88%A6%E5%BE%8C%E3%81%A8%E5%8C%BB%E3%81%AE%E5%80%AB%E7%90%86%E3%80%80%E9%9D%92%E6%9C%A8%E5%86%A8%E5%96%9C/
    title
    特集(2)講演録 731部隊の戦後と医の倫理 青木冨喜子氏（作家・ジャーナリスト） (English)
    retrieved
    17 April 2024
    author
    Fukiko Aoki
    publication date
    20 August 2015
    reference URL
    https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n11/ian-buruma/dr-ishii-gets-away-with-it
    title
    Dr Ishii gets away with it (English)
    publication date
    9 June 1994
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    30 April 2024
    ISSN
    0260-9592
    author
    Ian Buruma
    image
    Unit 731 - Complex.jpg
    374 × 288; 40 KB
    media legend
    Edificis de la Unitat 731 (Catalan)
    Le complexe de l'Unité 731. Deux prisons sont cachées au centre du bâtiment principal. (French)
    0 references
    significant person
    Shirō Ishii
    2 references
    reference URL
    https://www.pacificatrocities.org/human-experimentation.html
    title
    Human Experimentation at Unit 731 (English)
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    reference URL
    https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230821/k10014169671000.html
    title
    旧日本軍「731部隊」職員表など公式文書見つかる | NHK (English)
    publication date
    21 August 2023
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    author name string
    日本放送協会
    Hideo Futaki
    2 references
    reference URL
    https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4763408097
    title
    「飽食した悪魔」の戦後：７３１部隊と二木秀雄『政界ジープ』 (English)
    publication date
    25 May 2017
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    author name string
    哲郎 加藤
    reference URL
    https://healthnet.jp/paper/2015%E5%B9%B4/%E7%AC%AC2938%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%802015%E5%B9%B48%E6%9C%8820%E6%97%A5/%E7%89%B9%E9%9B%862%E8%AC%9B%E6%BC%94%E9%8C%B2%E3%80%80731%E9%83%A8%E9%9A%8A%E3%81%AE%E6%88%A6%E5%BE%8C%E3%81%A8%E5%8C%BB%E3%81%AE%E5%80%AB%E7%90%86%E3%80%80%E9%9D%92%E6%9C%A8%E5%86%A8%E5%96%9C/
    title
    特集(2)講演録 731部隊の戦後と医の倫理 青木冨喜子氏（作家・ジャーナリスト） (English)
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    Ryōichi Naitō
    2 references
    reference URL
    https://www.amazon.co.jp/review/R3KNE5QIXBYBE9/
    title
    次のAmazonレビューを確認してください: 七三一部隊 生物兵器犯罪の真実 (講談社現代新書) (Japanese)
    language of work or name
    Japanese
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    reference URL
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB855601997877367500
    language of work or name
    English
    title
    Remembering War Crimes - WSJ (English)
    retrieved
    30 April 2024
    publication date
    11 February 1997
    field of work
    chemical warfare
    0 references
    unethical human experimentation
    7 references
    stated in
    Japanese veteran admits vivisection tests on PoWs
    reference URL
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/27/secondworldwar.japan
    reference URL
    https://www.lit.osaka-cu.ac.jp/user/tsuchiya/gyoseki/presentation/2014ShakaiIgakukai.pdf
    retrieved
    16 April 2024
    author name string
    土屋贵志
    stated in
    Japanese doctors' experimentation in wartime China
    retrieved
    17 April 2024
    reference URL
    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(02)11797-1/fulltext
    publication date
    1 December 2002
    reference URL
    https://web.archive.org/web/20240430230209/https://usflibexhibits.omeka.net/exhibits/show/speakingout1/interviewees/chang/4024f
    title
    The Medical Experiments of Unit 731 · Speaking Out About Genocide: The Voices of Survivors, Upstanders, and Experts · USF Libraries Exhibits (English)
    retrieved
    1 May 2024
    author
    Iris Chang
    reference URL
    https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/japan-unit-731-human-experiments-secret-biological-warfare-531487-20240707
    title
    Veterans reveal the horrifying human experiments of Japan's top-secret biological warfare facility Unit 731 (English)
    publication date
    7 July 2024
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    8 July 2024
    reference URL
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mysterious-bones-possible-evidence-japanese-war-crimes-unit-731/
    publication date
    26 July 2024
    title
    Mysterious skulls and skeletons unearthed 35 years ago could be linked to notorious war crimes, Japanese activists say - CBS News (English)
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    28 July 2024
    reference URL
    https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II-The-horror-of-war-in-pictures-2147312
    title
    World War II: The horror of war in pictures | Holocaust, Firebombing of Tokyo. & War Crimes | Britannica (English)
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    4 April 2025
    country
    Manchukuo
    0 references
    coordinate location

    Map

    45°36'0"N, 126°38'0"E
    1 reference
    imported from Wikimedia project
    English Wikipedia
    significant event
    American cover-up of Japanese war crimes
    point in time
    1948
    applies to part
    immunity from prosecution
    22 references
    reference URL
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487829/
    ISSN
    0963-1801
    DOI
    10.1017/S0963180113000753
    title
    United States Responses to Japanese Wartime Inhuman Experimentation after World War II: National Security and Wartime Exigency (English)
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    author name string
    Howard Brody
    Sarah E. Leonard
    Jing-Bao Nie
    Paul Weindling
    stated in
    U.S. responses to Japanese wartime inhuman experimentation after World War II
    reference URL
    https://web.archive.org/web/20240405101555/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BpKixUKbU8
    title
    The Unspeakable Things That Happened In Unit 731 - YouTube (English)
    publication date
    5 April 2024
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    reference URL
    https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8244
    title
    The Inherited “Results” of the Imperial Japanese Army’s Experiments on Human Beings - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine (English)
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    publication date
    2023
    reference URL
    https://www.amazon.com/Factories-Death-Japanese-Biological-American/dp/0415932149
    title
    Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up (English)
    publication date
    25 April 2002
    retrieved
    13 April 2024
    author
    Sheldon H. Harris
    reference URL
    https://www.amazon.com/Japans-Infamous-Unit-731-Experimentation-dp-0804852197/dp/0804852197/
    title
    Japan's Infamous Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program (English)
    publication date
    3 December 2019
    retrieved
    13 April 2024
    stated in
    Japan's Infamous Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    author
    Hal Gold
    Yuma Totani
    reference URL
    https://web.archive.org/web/20240415044046/https://books.google.com/books?id=8wUAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47&dq=unit+731&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGndiXqsOFAxVVH0QIHc61CGUQ6AF6BAgoEAI#v=onepage&q=unit%20731&f=false
    title
    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Google Books (English)
    publication date
    December 1989
    retrieved
    15 April 2024
    stated in
    Unit 731: Japan's secret biological warfare in World War II
    publication date
    1989
    author
    Peter Williams
    David Wallace
    reference URL
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14672715.1980.10405225
    language of work or name
    English
    ISSN
    0007-4810
    DOI
    10.1080/14672715.1980.10405225
    title
    Japan's germ warfare: The U.S. cover-up of a war crime (English)
    retrieved
    15 April 2024
    stated in
    Japan's germ warfare: The U.S. cover-up of a war crime
    author
    John W. Powell
    stated in
    Hidden atrocities: Japanese germ warfare and American obstruction of justice at the Tokyo trial
    author
    Jeanne Guillemin
    publication date
    2017
    reference URL
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_15
    title
    The 1925 Geneva Protocol: China’s CBW Charges Against Japan at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (English)
    DOI
    10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_15
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    15 April 2024
    author
    Jeanne Guillemin
    stated in
    The 1925 Geneva Protocol: China’s CBW Charges Against Japan at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
    reference URL
    https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4535582602
    title
    731免責の系譜: 細菌戦部隊と秘蔵のファイル (English)
    publication date
    1 July 1999
    retrieved
    16 April 2024
    author
    Masakatsu Ōta
    reference URL
    https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4763408097
    title
    「飽食した悪魔」の戦後：７３１部隊と二木秀雄『政界ジープ』 (English)
    publication date
    25 May 2017
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    author
    Tetsurō Katō
    stated in
    Researching Japanese war crimes records: introductory essays
    publication date
    2006
    author
    Edward J. Drea
    reference URL
    https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/17/world/unmasking-horror-a-special-report-japan-confronting-gruesome-war-atrocity.html
    retrieved
    30 April 2024
    publication date
    17 March 1995
    author
    Nicholas Kristof
    reference URL
    https://archive.nytimes.com/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/china-unit-731-japan-war-crimes-biological/
    title
    A New Look at Japan's Wartime Atrocities and a U.S. Cover-Up (English)
    publication date
    21 October 2015
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    30 April 2024
    author name string
    Didi Kirsten Tatlow
    reference URL
    https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n11/ian-buruma/dr-ishii-gets-away-with-it
    title
    Dr Ishii gets away with it (English)
    publication date
    9 June 1994
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    30 April 2024
    ISSN
    0260-9592
    author
    Ian Buruma
    reference URL
    https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-trauma-seventy-years-after-the-rape-of-nanking-a-523453.html
    title
    China's Trauma: Seventy Years after the 'Rape of Nanking' (English)
    publication date
    14 December 2007
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    30 April 2024
    ISSN
    2195-1349
    author
    Wieland Wagner
    reference URL
    https://web.archive.org/web/20240203073619/https://book.asahi.com/article/14569904
    title
    「７３１部隊全史」書評 反省しない組織 精度高く描く｜好書好日 (English)
    publication date
    12 March 2022
    retrieved
    30 April 2024
    language of work or name
    Japanese
    author name string
    戸邉秀明
    reference URL
    https://usflibexhibits.omeka.net/exhibits/show/speakingout1/interviewees/chang/4024f
    title
    The Medical Experiments of Unit 731 · Speaking Out About Genocide: The Voices of Survivors, Upstanders, and Experts · USF Libraries Exhibits (English)
    retrieved
    1 May 2024
    author
    Iris Chang
    reference URL
    https://medium.com/leadership-counts/pardoning-devils-the-american-cover-up-of-imperial-japanese-unit-731-504f966cf08d
    retrieved
    9 July 2024
    publication date
    27 January 2021
    author name string
    Ian Schneier
    title
    Pardoning Devils: The American Cover Up of Imperial Japanese Unit 731 (English)
    reference URL
    https://www.pacificatrocities.org/blog/tokyo-tribunal-and-the-war-crimes-of-unit-731
    title
    Tokyo Tribunal and the War Crimes of Unit 731 (English)
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    10 October 2024
    reference URL
    https://www.voanews.com/a/for-japanese-unit-731-survivor-speaking-truth-carries-a-cost-/7841643.html
    title
    For Japanese Unit 731 survivor, speaking truth carries a cost (English)
    publication date
    28 October 2024
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    9 November 2024
    Khabarovsk War Crime Trials
    point in time
    1949
    2 references
    reference URL
    https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/movies/?id=D0009050802_00000
    title
    ＮＨＫスペシャル ７３１部隊の真実～エリート医学者と人体実験～｜番組｜NHKアーカイブス (Japanese)
    language of work or name
    Japanese
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    author name string
    NHK
    reference URL
    https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n11/ian-buruma/dr-ishii-gets-away-with-it
    title
    Dr Ishii gets away with it (English)
    publication date
    9 June 1994
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    30 April 2024
    ISSN
    0260-9592
    author
    Ian Buruma
    number of deaths
    3,000
    nature of statement
    estimate
    1 reference
    reference URL
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/17/japan-unit-731-imperial-army-second-world-war
    title
    Unit 731: Japan discloses details of notorious chemical warfare division (British English)
    publication date
    17 April 2018
    language of work or name
    British English
    retrieved
    12 April 2024
    ISSN
    0261-3077
    author name string
    Justin McCurry
    described at URL
    https://web.archive.org/web/20240501043821/https://historymedjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/volume2/number1/Histori_medical_Vol2_T1_2015_engl_Romanova.pdf
    author name string
    V.V. Romanova
    I.M. Sechenov
    publication date
    2015
    title
    From the Tokyo to Khabarovsk trials: the history of the preparation of the trial of Japanese war criminals and bacteriologist (English)
    language of work or name
    English
    0 references
    https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/unit-731-prison-camp-japanese.html
    publication date
    26 July 2018
    title
    Japan’s Dr. Mengele: Medical Experiments on POW’s at Unit 731 (English)
    language of work or name
    English
    author name string
    Herbert Kikoy
    0 references
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1odMnxoKKWc
    title
    Unit 731 & Shirō Ishii Documentary (English)
    distributed by
    YouTube
    author name string
    Ned Elliott
    0 references
    https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-of-world-wars/unit-731.htm
    title
    Unit 731: Inhumane Medical Experimentation During WWII (English)
    distributed by
    HowStuffWorks
    author name string
    Kimberly Olson
    publication date
    14 January 2025
    0 references
    has part(s)
    Unit 516
    0 references
    Unit Ei 1644
    0 references
    Unit 9420
    1 reference
    reference URL
    https://web.archive.org/web/20220827034522/https://www.cup.com.hk/2020/09/04/unit-oka-9420/
    retrieved
    17 April 2024
    title
    生化戰：岡字 9420 部隊 - *CUP (English)
    publication date
    27 August 2022
    Unit 1855
    0 references
    Commons category
    Unit 731
    0 references

    Identifiers

    J9U ID
    987007597126805171
    0 references
    HKCAN ID
    9811109857903406
    0 references
    Namuwiki ID
    731 부대
    0 references
    Zhihu topic ID
    19743297
    0 references
     
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