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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
HARBIN, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) — New evidence provided by a former member of the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731 was released in China on Thursday, shedding more light on the infamous biological experiments conducted by Japanese troops during the invasion of China.
On Saturday, a 47-minute archival video featuring testimony from Hideo Sato, a member of Unit 731, a bubonic plague research unit that conducted biological warfare during World War II, was shown in the exhibition hall of the Unit 731 Crime Evidence Museum.
In the video, H. Sato details the unit's criminal activities, including cultivating plague bacteria, vivisection of animals, and experiments on living humans.
According to the aforementioned museum, in 2019, Japanese scientist Fuyuko Nishisato donated the video to the Museum, which was built on the former site of Unit 731's headquarters in Harbin, now the capital of Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China.
H. Sato explained that the unit carried out vivisection of plague-infected animals under the guise of "disinfection work." He stated that its primary role was to test the lethality of the bacteria dose and its mortality rate through animal testing, with the goal of "weaponizing the plague."
H. Sato also provided details of experiments on living people, which, according to him, were carried out in a special, highly guarded, hermetically sealed prison in the main area of the detachment's location.
According to H. Sato, only experienced specialists were allowed to conduct experiments on living humans, and young employees like himself were not allowed into the premises. Jin Shicheng, a researcher at the exhibition hall, said this account is further evidence of the strict internal hierarchy within Unit 731 and the high level of secrecy surrounding its atrocities and crimes.
Unit 731 was a top-secret biological and chemical warfare base established in Harbin as the central organ of Japanese germ warfare in China and Southeast Asia during World War II.
At least 3,000 people were used by Unit 731 for human experiments, and more than 300,000 people in China were killed by Japanese biological weapons. -0-
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