Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The horrors of Nazi medical experiments during World War II are widely known, but Japan's Unit 731 in occupied China remains a ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

Previously classified personnel rosters of lesser-known wartime bacteriological units deployed in China, hidden since the end of World War II, have been released, which will help researchers better ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese Unit 731 staff carrying a body from one of the unit's facilities. Archaeologists in China have uncovered a secret ...

It's a scene from a nightmare. Captured prisoners are purposely infected with deadly diseases, from plague to cholera and tuberculosis, exposed to freezing temperatures, given poisoned food, dissected ...

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Hideo Shimizu L visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year ...