Unit 731 was a notorious Japanese secret unit engaged in bacteriological warfare in World War II. A considerable number of Chinese, Koreans, Russians, Americans, and Britons were used by Unit 731 for viviculture and dissection. The unit also dropped bacteriological bombs on civilian settlements and on the battlefield, resulting in a large number of deaths.

The Japanese author of "731 - Shiro Ishii and the Bacteriological Warfare Unit Revealed" Takako Aoki revealed the crimes and secrets of Unit 731 through a large number of original materials. "One is the United States, which prides itself as a model of democracy and freedom, and the other is Japan, which prides itself on the spirit of bushido, fought to the death during World War II, but immediately after the war was over, they eagerly and secretly cooperated for bacteriological weapons, which are chemical and biological weapons that are expressly prohibited by the Geneva Protocol.

Unit 731 was Japan's secret unit engaged in the development and use of bacteriological weapons in World War II, which was established and commanded by Shiro Ishii. ”

Ling Ling, the book's translator, said that Aoki had gone to great lengths to find the diaries. "There were two yellowed A5 notebooks, and the 1946 notebook had his name 'Shiro Ishii' written on the cover. When you open it, you can see that the notes are written in pencil, a unique cursive script of old-style Chinese characters, interspersed with words and numbers that are difficult to decipher. It is a notebook of the events and important events of the day, the so-called memo. My hands trembled as I read it. Shiro Ishii was worried about the investigation and interrogation by the U.S. military and did not want to keep them in his own home. However, after the withdrawal of the occupation forces in 1952, he could have retrieved the two notebooks, but why did he leave them at someone else's house? I think Shiro Ishii may be hoping that his diary will be published one day after a period of time, so that the post-war history of his life will be passed on to future generations.

Shocking experiments on dissecting female bodies

Between 1932 and 1933, Shiro Ishii twice went to Northeast China, under the pseudonym Togo Daisa, and formed the predecessor of Unit 731 - the demon "Togo Force". In 1936, it became a regular army approved by the Emperor of Japan, and its headquarters was set up in a bungalow near Harbin. There, Shiro Ishii unscrupulously implements the demonic idea of using bacteria as a weapon. He also persuaded a group of graduate students from the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto Imperial University and other universities to serve in the army. The Japanese Army did not hesitate to invest huge sums of money in the Ishii troops.

Shiro Ishii specially recruited villagers from near his hometown to take charge of the construction of the bungalow, and also set up a special cell in the bungalow facility to hold "maruta", that is, live test products of bacteriological weapons, and his second brother Ishii Tsuyoo led a special squad of soldiers from his hometown to be responsible for guarding. Shiro Ishii commanded Japanese military doctors to brutally conduct bacterial infection and dissecting experiments on civilians and prisoners on living people.

Yoshio Shinozuka was drafted by Shiro Ishii to serve in Unit 731 as a member of the junior team at the age of 15. He once recounted that not long after coming to the bungalow, he learned the meaning of "Maruta", and anyone who was arrested by the Japanese military police, whether suspected of being a spy or an innocent citizen, was destined to become "Marumita" once they were branded as "specially transferred". These people were gathered at certain places in the city of Harbin, such as the Harbin secret service, the branch of the gendarmerie, and the headquarters of the gendarmerie near the railway station, as well as in the basement of the Japanese consulate in the basement of a beautiful Western-style building enclosed by stone walls.

The "pills", which are regarded as the materials for epidemic prevention experiments, are counted by one or two, handcuffed, and tied to two ropes around their waists, and five or 10 people are lined up in a row and forcibly pulled away. The driver said, "I got 10 pills," and then forcibly took the man to a bungalow and put him in a special cell. The special cells are surrounded on all sides by buildings 3, 4, 5 and 6, and the inside is not visible from the outside. There is a heavy iron gate at the entrance, which is locked and no one is allowed to enter and exit freely.

According to Major General Kiyoshi Kawashima, a military doctor of Unit 731, 400 to 600 people are sent to the prison of Unit 731 headquarters every year to be used as experimental materials, at least 600 people die each year as a result of experiments, and at least 3,000 people die in six years (1939-1945) according to the most conservative estimate. Unit 731 also has an iron discipline, that is, "no looking, no listening, no talking", so the things that the unit did were rarely exposed, even in post-war Japan.

During the war, the Japanese army laid a huge bacteriological warfare system in our country, which was collectively known as the "Ishii Agency", and was engaged in the so-called epidemic prevention and water supply business. The Ishii organ is composed of 18 "divisional and regimental epidemic prevention and water supply departments," plus epidemic prevention and water supply departments and their subdivisions dispatched to Beijing, Guangdong, and Singapore, as well as the "epidemic prevention research office" in Tokyo, the headquarters of the unit's system, and conducts bacteriological warfare on various fronts.

The sordid deal of germ war criminals with the upper echelons of the Allied forces

"The United States knew as early as wartime that Japan was engaged in bacteriological warfare research, but it never dared to release it for the purpose of monopolizing precious bacteriological warfare research materials and living specimens. After the war, Japanese bacteriological war criminals and their crimes were covered up and concealed, so that the war criminals who deserved the most severe punishment miraculously escaped the war trial.

We can get a glimpse of the sinister intentions of the United States in its subsequent use of bacteriological warfare in the Korean War and poison gas in the Vietnam War. In 1939, Ryoichi Naito, an assistant professor at the Army Medical School in Tokyo, Japan, collected information about the yellow fever virus during a visit to the Rockefeller Institute and bribed the staff of the institute to steal the vaccine for $3,000, which attracted the attention of the Second Department of the U.S. Army Staff.

On February 25, 1941, the commander of the Philippine Defense, Major General Nader, intercepted the news of the Japanese army's bacteriological warfare in China.

On April 11, 1942, the U.S. Ambassador reported to the U.S. Secretary of State that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health had condemned the Japanese army's use of plague in Ningbo on October 27, 1940, and repeated the same tactics in Changde on November 4, 1941.

Beginning in 1943, some Japanese units stationed in "Manchuria" were sent to fight in the Nanyang region, and some of the units related to bacteriological warfare were captured by the US military, revealing the fact that the Japanese army had bacteriological combat units. The 1943 publication of the manual "The Reality of Bacteriological Warfare" enabled the United States to confirm that the Japanese army had the ability to carry out bacteriological warfare.

In May 1944, the U.S. military finally had conclusive evidence of the Japanese army's use of bacteriological warfare. In Document No. 8438 of the Pacific Regional Coordination and Intelligence Center, two manuals on bacteriological education obtained from Japanese prisoners were cited to confirm the fact that the Japanese army had manufactured and used bacteriological weapons.

On November 4, 1944, the U.S. military discovered balloons on the U.S. mainland, including California, Alaska, Oregon and other West Coast areas. The U.S. suspects that the Japanese army used balloons** to spread pathogens. In December of the same year, after an investigation by the U.S. Army Headquarters in China, the facts of bacteriological warfare conducted by the Tama unit (i.e., Unit 1644) based in Nanjing were further discovered.

The invading Japanese army established a bacteriological weapons research center base in northeast China. In 1935, according to the order of Emperor Hirohito, the Japanese army expanded the Ishii Unit ——— the Manchuria Unit 731 in the Pingfang District of Harbin City to secretly conduct bacteriological weapons research. In August 1940, Japanese Emperor Hirohito issued a secret decree to set up four detachments in Hailin, Linkou, Sunwu and Hailar. The Hailin detachment is numbered as the 643rd detachment, and the detachment has more than 200 Japanese researchers, with Masao Ogami as the detachment leader. What is the relationship between the Hailin detachment and Unit 731? What is the position of the Hailin detachment in the bacteriological unit of the Japanese invasion of China? After years of investigation and visits, Cheng Jisi, a retired cadre from the Archives Bureau of Hailin County, Heilongjiang Province, uncovered the truth about Hailin Detachment 643.

Of the 31 troops, only the Hailin detachment left two "alive"

Welfare Village, less than two kilometers away from the northwest suburbs of Hailin County, was the base camp of the Hailin Detachment of Unit 731. Today, the ruins of the self-destruction and self-abandonment of the Hailin detachment of Unit 731 have been replaced by large areas of houses and vegetable fields, and the basement and boiler room of the past have disappeared. The only thing the reporter could see was a boiler room where the family surnamed Ma lived, which was once used by the Hailin detachment to burn office waste paper, and its distinctive chimney. The intact thick and low chimney of the Ma family has become the landmark building of the Hailin Detachment of the 731 Bacteriological Unit of the Japanese Invasion of China. "I have called on the local authorities countless times to protect this evidence of the Japanese invasion of China, but it has not attracted enough attention from the relevant departments." Cheng Jisi said that there is almost ......nothing left of the site of the 643 detachment of Hailin Detachment of Unit 731 outside the stone monument, and when I started to investigate, there were not many houses here, and the survivor Li Baochang could clearly identify the exact location of the horse ring, the red cloth (headquarters), the rat trapping team, the teaching and research department, the training ground and other institutions, and some still had the foundations of some houses. Now it's all gone. ”

In the autumn of 1940, a military camp was built in the northwest of Hailin City by the construction department of the Japanese Kwantung Army and constructed by the military royal enterprise. The production and living water of the camp is extracted from the local Douyinhe River, and the water source management is very strict, the water source is surrounded by barbed wire, there is a gate guard at the entrance of the barracks, and there is a special office of the troop commander in front of the barracks. This is the mysterious 643 detachment. "Because the soldiers of Unit 643 did not wear military uniforms and only wore white coats to work in the laboratory, the people who did not know at that time mistakenly thought that they were health troops." Cheng Jisi introduced that the scale of the 643 detachment is not too large, but the organization is relatively sound, with the first department, the second department, the general affairs department, the supply department and the training department. The tasks of the detachment were also "peculiar": breeding, capturing and collecting rats and rabbits. Li Baochang, a surviving laborer of Detachment 643, said that behind the barracks, there was a large animal room, in which about a dozen Japanese soldiers worked.

According to the old man Li Baochang, the head of the supply department of the unit was called Kamio, who was also the head of the animal room, and the employees Shimazaki and Kobayashi Jia, and the soldier Inoue were in charge of raising animals. There are two Chinese who have fed the rats here, he and a man named Li Huamin.

Cheng Jisi introduced that among the four detachments under Unit 731, only the Hailin Detachment left two "alive" ——— detachment leader Masao Oigami and experimenter Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. As war criminals, Ogami and Kikuchi and 10 other war criminals from Unit 731 were brought to court.

Li Baochang: I fed rats to the "643" detachment

In 1941, when he was only 14 years old, he was hired as a laborer by the 643 detachment because of his size and strength, and he was paid "a piece and a half of the ocean" every day. Li Baochang said that in the beginning, he was only responsible for feeding the rats. At that time, more than 20 Chinese laborers, including boilermen, handymen, and carpenters, were employed in the "Dongdaying". There is another one named Da Lin Jia who feeds the rats together, and the other is called the Japanese army named Shima, and the head of the rat catcher team is called Shenwei.

Li Baochang said that the Japanese soldiers of the 643 detachment had very strict control over them, and they had to show a "pass pass" when entering and leaving the camp, and when the laborers went to work and passed through the gate post (health center), in addition to showing their labor certificates, they had to wear a kind of armband printed with a yellow five-star and the words "643" troops, otherwise they would not be allowed to enter.

Li Ming's special forces discovered these materials, and there were witnesses who confirmed them。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。