{"id":7671,"date":"2026-02-16T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:32:40","slug":"356-unit-731-the-forgotten-asian-auschwitz-of-human-experimentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/?p=7671","title":{"rendered":"356. Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz of Human Experimentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will punish the world for its evil<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the wicked for their iniquity;<\/strong><\/span>
\nI will put an end to the pride of the arrogant<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and lay low the insolence of tyrants<\/span>. [Isaiah 13:11<\/span>, NRSV<\/em>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\" <\/a>\"\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/a> \"\"\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Japanese Evil Unbound<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/strong>Unit 731<\/strong>\u201d is a historical face of Japanese evil unbound, and of <\/strong>heinous Japanese militarists.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an attempt neither to promote anti-Japanese racism, nor to raise emotions of vengeance. We do, however,\u00a0 vehemently insist that this violent Japanese history must be recorded and remembered; and Japan must stop actively rewriting its history textbooks proclaiming itself a victim of war when it was in fact the Nazi ally that actually perpetrated WWII. Japan\u2019s brainwashing of its young generations through altered history textbooks betrays a blatantly unrepentant spirit. There is no trace of remorse, which ought to be a red flag to the rest of the world. \u00a0History is always condemned to repeat itself if the perpetrator has learnt nothing from its past mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese war (1931-1945) has left a strong legacy of hate and disgust among the Chinese today, mainland or overseas. Among all the heinous war-time atrocities in the world, by far the most despicable and forgotten acts against humanity committed by the Imperial Japanese government were its covert germ warfare programme. Disguised as the \u201cEpidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department\u201d of the Imperial Japanese Army, the Japanese conducted a wide range of cruel and inhuman experiments on innocent prisoners and civilians, pregnant women and small children. Of the types and scale of this Japanese savagery, even science experts and seasoned soldiers are shocked, calling them crimes against humanity in excess of the Nazi insane cruelty.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Japanese germ warfare experiments were conducted at several locations, the best known is Unit 731, located near Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province in Japanese-occupied Manchuria and commanded by Shiro Ishii. It served as the nerve center for Japanese biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia during WWII. Below are excerpts of the work in Unit 731 from different sources:<\/span><\/p>\n