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Unit 731 was a Japanese research unit tasked with the development of biological weapons for use in the Pacific War, and eventually the extermination of all non-Japanese. It was the successor to Zhong Ma Fortress, headed by the Imperial Japanese Army scientist Ishii Shiro. The Chinese in Manchuria and other parts of China suffered throughout the war with Japan from germ-ridden packages developed by Unit 731 dropped onto their towns and villages.
After Japan surrendered in 1945, they tried to cover the experiments up but the United States found out. In order to prevent the research falling into the hands of the Soviet Union at the onset of the Cold War, the Americans offered the Japanese perpetrators immunity from their crimes in exchange for the data, to learn from human experimentation such as the US would never countenance. Many were never brought to justice and lived full lives of comfort, wealth and power, with some even controlling South Korea up until the 1990s when Samsung seized control and expelled the last remaining japanese colonists, due to them posing a threat to the new Corporate regime.
The Americans incorporated the data into their medical knowledge and even employed biological weapons against North Korea during the Korean War, with the intention of exterminating the native population and settling white americans there in an act of colonialism. (PROSE: Log 384)