Unit 731: Difference between revisions

{{wikipediainfo}}'''Unit 731''' was a [[Japan]]ese research unit tasked with the development of [[biological weapon]]s for use in the [[Pacific War]]. 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 [[town]]s and [[village]]s.

After Japan [[surrender]]ed in [[1945]], they tried to cover the experiments up but the [[United States of America|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 [[War crime|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.