http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/7236099/Human-bones-could-reveal-truth-of-Japans-Unit-731-experiments.html











 

Diving tables I used for diving were based off the US Navy's.  The USN compiled a lot of data to make their excellent dive tables.

The savages who were part of Unit 731 should have had their necks stretched.

Every single one of them should have been tried and executed.

fucking savages

It's thought about 2,000 US, UK and Australian POW's were murdered at Unit 731

One of the most horrific aspects of the experiments at Unit 731 was that vivisection without any anesthetic on the victims was the norm as Ishii thought anesthetics would taint his results.


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Vivisection

Prisoners of war were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia.[13][11]
Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases. Scientists performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results.[14][11] The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants.[15]
Vivisections were also performed on pregnant women, sometimes impregnated by doctors, and the fetus removed.[16]
Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss.[11]
Those limbs that were removed were sometimes re-attached to the opposite sides of the body.[11]
Some prisoners' limbs were frozen and amputated, while others had limbs frozen then thawed to study the effects of the resultant untreated gangrene and rotting.
Some prisoners had their stomachs surgically removed and the esophagus reattached to the intestines.[11]
Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.[17][13][11]


In 2007, Doctor Ken Yuasa testified to the Japan Times that, "I was afraid during my first vivisection, but the second time around, it was much easier. By the third time, I was willing to do it." He believes at least 1,000 people, including surgeons, were involved in vivisections over mainland China.[18]

]Weapons testing

Human targets were used to test grenades positioned at various distances and in different positions.[11]
Flame throwers were tested on humans.[11]
Humans were tied to stakes and used as targets to test germ-releasing bombs, chemical weapons, and explosive bombs.[11]

Germ warfare attacks

Prisoners were injected with inoculations of disease, disguised as vaccinations, to study their effects.[11]
To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea, then studied[11].
Prisoners were infested with fleas in order to acquire large quantities of disease-carrying fleas for the purposes of studying the viability of germ warfare[citation needed].
Plague fleas, infected clothing, and infected supplies encased in bombs were dropped on various targets. The resulting cholera, anthrax, and plague were estimated to have killed around 400,000 Chinese civilians.[11]
Tularemia was tested on Chinese civilians.[19]
Unit 731 and its affiliated units (Unit 1644, Unit 100, et cetera) were involved in research, development, and experimental deployment of epidemic-creating biowarfare weapons in assaults against the Chinese populace (both civilian and military) throughout World War II. Plague-infested fleas, bred in the laboratories of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes upon Chinese cities, coastal Ningbo in 1940, and Changde, Hunan Province, in 1941. This military aerial spraying killed thousands of people with bubonic plague epidemics.[20]

Other experiments

Prisoners were subjected to other experiments such as:
being hung upside down to see how long it would take for them to choke to death.[11]
having air injected into their arteries to determine the time until the onset of embolism.[11]
having horse urine injected into their kidneys.[11]
being deprived of food and water to determine the length of time until death.
being placed into high-pressure chambers until death.
being exposed to extreme temperatures and developing frostbite to determine how long humans could survive with such an affliction, and to determine the effects of rotting and gangrene on human flesh.[11]
having experiments performed upon prisoners to determine the relationship between temperature, burns, and human survival.
being placed into centrifuges and spun until dead.
having animal blood injected and the effects studied.
being exposed to lethal doses of x-ray radiation.
having various chemical weapons tested on prisoners inside gas chambers.
being injected with sea water to determine if it could be a substitute for saline.
being buried alive.

Biological warfare

Japanese scientists performed tests on prisoners with plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism, and other diseases.[21] This research led to the development of the defoliation bacilli bomb and the flea bomb used to spread the bubonic plague.[22] Some of these bombs were designed with ceramic (porcelain) shells, an idea proposed by Ishii in 1938.
These bombs enabled Japanese soldiers to launch biological attacks, infecting agriculture, reservoirs, wells, and other areas with anthrax, plague-carrier fleas, typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and other deadly pathogens. During biological bomb experiments, scientists dressed in protective suits would examine the dying victims. Infected food supplies and clothing were dropped by airplane into areas of China not occupied by Japanese forces. In addition, poisoned food and candies were given out to unsuspecting victims and children, and the results examined."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

All is fair in love and war.Sounds mild compared to my first wife.

Tag, Never heard about this

beat by vito and some folks just ain't worth the time.

For fucks sake.............



 

Japan should have been nuked completely off the map.

And in case anyones wondering why the Japanese conducted tests on Allied POW's when they had already conducted tests on Chinese POW's…

They wanted to see how Europeans would react compared to Asiatics.

It was widely covered here in the UK about 20 years ago and was the subject of a TV documentary.

Nothing the Nazis did was even in the same ballpark as the horrors that were everyday practice in Unit 731.  Ishii and his team were behaving like Dr Frankenstein on crack.

The Japs remain a very racist people.  They would do this all over again if it would gain them economic advantage over others.

Nonsense.  The old ways are gone forever.  Now all they want to do is eat Big Macs and sniff schoolgirl's panties.

Just another reason why I'll never have any respect for Douglas MacArthur: He refused many opportunities to prosecute Japanese for war crimes, and commuted the sentences of many who were tried and found guilty of horrors like Unit 731.

So how are those Toyotas working out for you?




I've never understood how Americans who were old enough to remember WWII bought Japanese cars, or why American Jews continue to buy Porsche, BMW, and particularly Mercedes.

I don't think it's Taiwan we need to worry about the PRC attacking- they haven't forgotten Nanjing.

the shit they did in Manchuria was not "all is fair in love and war"

they committed some of the most brutal and disgusting things you can imagine... raping women to get them pregnant to conduct vivisection on them and the fetus or child... using the child for experiments... experiments with limb transplants, salt water for a blood thickening solution for trauma, bio weapons.. you name  it, those fuckers did it and had it wiped under the carpet so we could have the information.

they got a free pass after the war compared to Germany and they did not deserve it.

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spoken like someone completely ignorant, unless that is a tongue in cheek joke.

the U.S. Navy was good at taking a SEAL or other diver... putting them on a particular blend of O2, dropping them in pressure until they passed out... then pulling the pressure off..  helped with dive tables, and for individual personnel it gave them their Partial Pressure.

Not to take away from the atrocities Germany or Japan did, but I'd bet my paycheck that Russia did these same kinds of things.  Also, our hands arne't clean either.  In the 50's, we experimented on people with birth defects and mental illness to include sterilization.

Like I said, I'm not defending Germany or Japan but the victor get to write the history.

It is not too late...

We got our payback







140,000 people dead in one day.......



America is not one to be fucked with

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Same reason why we many of us don't believe in paying reparations to the blacks for slavery.

ETA: I drive a Toyota.

A few years down the road they got a whole shit load of experimental data of that nature to ponder.

Kids too, read about the Willowbrook State School, and Walter E. Fernald State School, and lastly Dr. Henry Cotton.

I read about that some years ago, but interesting that it was never taught in any school that im aware of.

There were trials held for some members, but by the Soviets and not us.

As bad as the Tuskegee Experiment was, comparing the two is like comparing a nuclear reactor to your microwave.  But if cognitive dissonance is your thing...go for it.

Also there is a right wing hard core group of Japanese that think they did no wrong and would of course do it all over again if given the opportunity.

I always wonder why the Japanese are let off the hook for stuff like this, but the Germans are seen as the ultimate in evil for doing less. PC, maybe?

I wouldn't consider what the Germans did to be "less" than what the Japs did.



 

i can see why she left you

thats a dumbass statement

hey dont buy tobacco products cultivated here in the south.. because at one time it was on the bloody backs of slaves.

dont buy your shit at walmart or anywhere else because maybe it was done at the expense of child slaves in india and China...

I heard Unit 731 scientists went on to become Toyota engineers.

Sounds like two nukes wasn't near enough.

Probably no nation or society on earth has not committed some great atrocity upon another people sometime in its cumulative past.

The only question is:  How do the living, breathing descendants carry on, under the burden and the benefit of such a heritage?

Yes, I wrote the word "benefit".  Who can deny that the conquerors of a land derive benefit?

There are three templates:

1)  Ignore, gloss over, deny or re-write history, and simply revel in it.

2)  Indulge in apologies, reparations, self-abasement to "make restitution"

3)  Acknowledge the facts of the past, state that it is history, resolve not to commit atrocities, and simply move forward.

Around the world, we see lots of 1. and 2., and neither works out very well.

I vote for the third option.

Wow. That's fucked up. I guess if you want those kinds of questions answered, that's the kind of shit you'd have to do. Ugh.

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too bad we dropped the bombs on the only two Japanese cities that had most of the  Christians and were against the war.........Great planning there.

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Rich history of this stuff in Japan.  The Samurai used to test the sharpness of their katanas on prisoners.  The apple did not fall far from the tree...

Don't preach to us about gun control Japan!

STFU.

Same deal with the Nazi scientists & doctors...

Seems we benefited from those atrocities just as much without having to actually commit them.

I don't know how you could possibly subject another human to that level of torture repeatedly.

For the people saying 'well, the Nazis did bad things too'…

Well, if you bailed out of a B-17 over Germany, you were not going to have this done to you.






Japan Admits Dissecting WW II POWs


By Thomas Easton

The Baltimore Sun


UKUOKA, Japan "I could never again wear a white smock," says Dr. Toshio Tono, dressed in a white running jacket at his hospital and recalling events of 50 years ago. "It's because the prisoners thought that we were doctors, since they could see the white smocks, that they didn't struggle. They never dreamed they would be dissected."

The prisoners were eight American airmen, knocked out of the sky over southern Japan during the waning months of World War U, and then torn apart organ by organ while they were still alive.

What occurred here 50 years ago this month, at the anatomy department of Kyushu University, has been largely forgotten in Japan and is virtually unknown in the United States. American prisoners of war were subjected to horrific medical experiments. All of the prisoners died. Most of the physicians and asistants then did their best to hide the evidence of what they had done.

Fukuoka is midway between Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cities that are planning elaborate ceremonies to mark the devastation caused by the United States'dropping the first atomic bombs. But neither Fukuoka nor the university plans to mark its own moment of infamy.

The gruesome experiments performed at the university were variations on research programs Japan conducted in territories it occupied during the war. In the most notorious of these efforts, the Japanese Imperial Army's Unit 731 killed thousands of Chinese and Russians held prisoner in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, in experiments to develop chemical and biological weapons.

Ken Yuasa, now a frail, 70-year-old physician in Tokyo, belonged to a military company stationed just south of Unit 731's base at Harbin, Manchuria. He recalls joining other doctors to watch as a prisoner was shot in the stomach, to give Japanese surgeons practice at extracting bullets.

While the victim was still alive, the doctors also practiced amputations.

"It wasn't just my experience," Yuasa says. "It was done everywhere."

Kyushu University stands out as the only site where Americans were incontrovertibly used in dissections and the only known site where experiments were done in Japan.

On May 5, 1945, an American B-29 bomber was flying with a dozen other aircraft after bombing Tachiaral Air Base in southwestern Japan and beginning the return flight to the island fortress of Guam.

Kinzou Kasuya, a 19-year-old Japanese pilot flying one of the Japanese fighters in pursuit of the Americans, rammed his aircraft into the fuselage of the B-29, destroying both planes.

No one knows for certain how many Americans were in the B-29; its crew had been hastily assembled on Guam. But villagers in Japan who witnessed the collision in the air saw about a dozen parachutes blossom.

One of the Americans died when the cords of his, parachute were severed by another Japanese plane. A second was alive when he reached the ground. He shot all but his last bullet at the villagers coming toward him, then used the last on himself.

Two others were quickly stabbed or shot to death.

At least nine were taken into custody.

B-29 crews were despised for the grim results of their raids. So some of the captives were beaten.

The local authorities assumed that the most knowledgeable was the captain, Marvin Watkins. He was sent to Tokyo for interrogation, where was tortured but nonetheless survived the war.

Every available account asserts that a military physician and a colonel in a local regiment were the two key figures in what happened next. What happened cannot be easily explained. Perhaps caring for the Americans was an impossible burden, especially because some were injured. Perhaps food was scarce.

Whatever the reason, the colonel and doctor decided to make the prisoners available for medical experiments, and Kyushu University became a willing participant.

Teddy Ponczka was the first to be handed over to the doctors and their assistants. He had already been stabbed, in either his right shoulder or his chest. According to Tono, the American assumed he was about to be treated for the wound when he was taken to an operating room.

But the incision went far deeper. A doctor wanted to test surgery's effects on the respiratory system, so one lung was removed. The wound was stitched closed.

How Teddy Ponczka died is in dispute. According to U.S. military records, he was anesthetized during the operation, and then the gas mask was removed from his face. A surgeon, Taro Torisu, reopened the incision and reached into Ponczka's chest. In the bland words of the military report, Torisu "stopped the heart action."

Tono remembers events differently. The first experiment was followed by a second, he says. Ponczka was given intravenous injections of sea water, to determine if sea water could be used as a substitute for sterile saline solution, used to increase blood volume in the wounded or those in'shock. Tono held the bottle of sea water. He says Ponczka bled to death.

Then it was the turn of the others.

The Japanese wanted to learn whether a patient could survive the partial loss of his liver. They wanted to learn if epilepsy could be controlled by removing part of the brain. According to U.S. military records, physicians also operated on -the prisoners' stomachs and necks.

All the Americans died.

"There was no debate among the doctors about whether to do the operations - that is what made it so strange," Tono says.

Word of the experiments eventually leaked out.

Thirty people were brought to trial by an Allied war crimes tribunal in Yokohama, Japan, on March 11, 1948. Charges included vivisection, wrongful removal of body parts and cannibalism - based on reports that the experimenters had eaten the livers of the Americans.

Of the 30 defendants, 23 were found guilty of various charges. (For lack of proof, the charges of cannibalism had been dismissed.) Five of the guilty were sentenced to death, four to life imprisonment. The other 14 were sentenced to shorter terms.

But the attitude of the American occupation forces began to change largely because of the start of the Korean War in June 1950. The United States had less interest in punishing Japan, an enemy-turned-ally.

In September 1950, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, as supreme commander for Allied Forces, reduced most of the sentences. By 1958, all those convicted were free. None of the death sentences was carried out.

http://www.aiipowmia.com/731/vivisection.html

But we were not justified in dropping the bomb to end the war right?

Others have pretty much covered it.


Unit 731 was absolutley horrific, their actions are little known outside military historians and the like.

The Japanese did some absolutely horrific things during the war, I can't remember the book, but their was one verified account of a Japanese garrison that was eating Allied POW's, George Bush Sr. was shot down near it, but managed to swim to sea.  After the war it was discovered that the Japanese commander and his officers had been dining on Allied POW's and tried to cover up their actions

ETA:  I believe the book was called "Flyboys"

From what I understand, As  part of the process (Immunity Deal) -  of letting most of the Japanese scientists/doctors/Soldiers go, was Them turning over all the records of the experiments? Supposedly they kept very detailed records of most or all of the experiments. That's why our guys (scientists) got such a hard on for the data, and cut the deal to let the Japanese guys get away with it. Why study bones when we have all the experiment data?

how was this different with Nazi scientist? Except they are Asian and not white.




 

I worked for the Japanese and let's just say I'm not a fan of them today.

The problems w/Toyota doesn't surprise me. Mistakes, errors, problems, are non-existent in
Japanese companies and you are not allowed to bring them up or talk about them.

They are like cats in a litter box covering shit up.

I had relatives in the Bataan Death March.
The one thing I didn't like about McArthur, is he should have allowed all the war criminals to be
gathered up and hung!

The Japanese were more brutal than the Germans.

I was wondering when this was going to be pointed out.


Kinda funny how clueless most Americans are about what actually happened and how we utilized the info...