Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart.
Shiro Isshi and his staff were able to trade the information obtained from their experiments with the Americans in return for immunity in the Tokyo Trials.
In this edition, we expanded.
In a cowardly attempt to escape persecution by the Soviets, Dr.
Perhaps the most shocking development after the war was that the perpetrators of this heinous crime against humanity have largely escaped persecution unlike their Nazi counterparts in Europe.
These prisoners were often subject to excruciating vivisections without the use of anesthesia in order to observe the real-time effects of these deadly diseases.
In a bid to develop its own germ warfare capability, the government of Imperial Japan resorted to incredibly deprive and inhumane methods of experimentation, like infecting prisoners with virulent strains of anthrax, plague, cholera, and other diseases.
Shiro Isshi, the department subjected 3,000-250,000 innocent men, women, and children to cruel experiments and medical procedures that were carried out by the brightest medical students and staff that Imperial Japan had to offer.
Under the leadership of Dr.
Euphemistically labeled as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Imperial Japanese Army, the Japanese conducted a wide range of cruel and inhumane experiments on prisoners who were often innocent.
Much of the atrocities committed by the Japanese are now known to most historians, but by far, the most despicable and Forgotten act against humanity committed by the Imperial Japanese government was its covert biochemical weapons program.
Even if one cannot stomach the details included in Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust, a basic knowledge of these atrocities should be more widely known, if only in the hope that history will never repeat itself in this horrific manner.-Kathryn Atwood, Author kathrynatwood.com The Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese war has left a strong legacy of hate and disgust among many Chinese today.
This brief, dispassionate, and factual book outlines the creation and development of Unit 731, an organization that employed thousands of Japanese scientists who conducted nightmarish experiments on an untold number of human guinea pigs, all in the name of medical research.
It is, however, for anyone wanting to more clearly understand the extent of Imperial Japanese war crimes.
Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart
