Japanese scientists performed tests on prisoners with plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism, and other diseases. An unidentified victim of Unit 731 human experimentation. Background: Throughout the course of World War Two, there were several mass atrocities, the most well-known being the Holocaust. But Japan also committed Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II.

Some of these bombs were designed with ceramic shells, an idea proposed by Ishii in 1938. Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II.It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Imperial Japan. It operated covertly for ten years since 1935 in Harbin, China, and was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by Imperial Japan, due to … During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) of World War Two, the unit conducted lethal human experiments.

Documenting the development of WWII from the perspective of the Far East Front, the story of the gruesome human research center, UNIT 731… Unit 731, the notorious germ warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that conducted horrific lethal experiments on Chinese civilians and Allied prisoners of war before and during World War II, is back in the news again after the Japanese government released the names of more than 3,000 of its former members. Jin Chengmin, a curator for the museum, described the main purpose of the unit’s activities as “human experiments, production, experiments and use of germ weapons.”He told Xinhua News that more than 3,000 people were subjected to experimentation at Unit 731, including prisoners of war and civilian men, women and children. Unit 731 was a top-secret development and research center that was located in Pingfan, northeastern China. Unit 731 explores a side of WWII history that is largely unknown to the Western World. Unit 731 was a biological and chemical weapons research and development unit of the Japanese Army. Unit 731 was a biological and chemical warfare research and development under the control of the Imperial Japanese Army. It operated during the second Sino-Japanese war from 1935 until 1945, in disregard of the 1925 Geneva protocol that strictly prohibited biochemical warfare and development. With Louis Fantasia, Chris D. Nebe. Directed by Chris D. Nebe. This research led to the development of the defoliation bacilli bomb and the flea bomb used to spread the bubonic plague. Unit 731, located in Harbin, China, was a secret Japanese project that carried out human medical experiments during the 1930s and 1940s.