The newly released archives handed over by Russia once again prove that Japanese Unit 731 - the notorious germ-warfare unit of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II - committed countless ...

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 ...

A screenshot from a video shows the oral testimony of Tsuruo Nishijima, a former Unit 731 member, confirming human experiments and battlefield operations by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War ...

Japan has gone down in popular memory as the original victim of weapons of mass destruction, after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. But it was China that was the ...

Masataka Mori, a former professor of irenology at Shizuoka University, watches a video of a former member of Unit 731 that he shot earlier, at the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by ...

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 ...

Unit 731 functioned as the nerve center for Japan's biological and chemical warfare in China and Southeast Asia. Historical ...

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 ...

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.

At Unit 731's headquarters in the far north of Manchuria, around 14,000 victims were murdered - 3,000 by live experiments - but scholars estimate that between 250,000 and 500,000 civilians from ...