Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese Unit 731 staff carrying a body from one of the unit's facilities. Archaeologists in China have uncovered a secret ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The horrors of Nazi medical experiments during World War II are widely known, but Japan's Unit 731 in occupied China remains a ...

There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the Imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal experiments on thousands of civilians in occupied China. As it sought to ...

It's a scene from a nightmare. Captured prisoners are purposely infected with deadly diseases, from plague to cholera and tuberculosis, exposed to freezing temperatures, given poisoned food, dissected ...

Chinese scholars are reigniting debate over Emperor Hirohito’s responsibility for Unit 731, a secret Japanese program that conducted brutal experiments and biological warfare in Asia. They argue that ...

A Japanese civic group is holding a public exhibition and lecture series this week detailing the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731, a Japanese germ-warfare unit that ...

For decades, the nightmarish legacy of Japan's Unit 731 during World War II has been shrouded in secrecy, but a new scientific study is bringing much-needed attention to this dark chapter in history.

A museum documenting the wartime atrocities of the Japanese Imperial Army has released video testimony from a former member of Unit 731, providing a rare and graphic account of the team's biological ...

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