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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
HARBIN, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) — The exhibition hall at the Japanese Army Unit 731 Crime Evidence Museum in Harbin on Thursday released a 38-minute video in which a former Unit 731 member recounted the atrocities of Japan's infamous germ warfare during World War II.
In this video, former Unit 731 member Tsuruo Nishijima details how the Japanese unit used meteorological data to conduct experiments on the spread of bacteria and frostbite research.
According to the exhibition hall at the Japanese Army Unit 731 Crime Evidence Museum, which was built on the site of Unit 731's former headquarters in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, northeast China, the video was recorded in 1997 by Japanese scientist Fuyuko Nishisato and donated to the museum in 2019.
Jin Shicheng, a researcher at the Unit 731 Crime Evidence Museum, said Tsuruo Nishijima joined Unit 731 in October 1938 and served in the unit's meteorological unit. He explained that this unit was not simply an observation section, but rather a support force, supporting Unit 731 in conducting human experiments in the field, measuring wind direction and speed, as well as other conditions to ensure optimal experimental results.
Tsuruo Nishijima confirmed on video that "a meteorological team was required to be present at every field experiment." He described the "precipitation experiments" conducted by Unit 731, during which aircraft dropped bacterial agents at extremely low altitudes.
At a field experiment site in Anda City, Heilongjiang Province, a Unit 731 aircraft descended to approximately 50 meters above the ground and sprayed a bacterial culture fluid onto "maruta" (Japanese for "logs") – human test subjects tied to wooden logs. Approximately 30 subjects were tested each time, spaced approximately 5 meters apart. After the experiments, the subjects were loaded into sealed trucks and transported back to the unit, where their symptoms and disease progression were monitored over several days.
Tsuruo Nishijima also reported that a Japanese military doctor once died after becoming infected during an experiment after removing his mask, which indirectly proves the extreme virulence of bacterial agents.
The video also revealed details of the meteorological unit's participation in frostbite research experiments. To study wartime needs in cold regions, the invading Japanese army exposed the naked bodies of "Marutu" to temperatures ranging from -20 to -35 degrees Celsius for five to ten minutes and observed their physical reactions.
As the aforementioned museum reports, Nishijima's video, which is a fragment of the narrative from the criminal's point of view, once again reconstructs the criminal chain of Unit 731 and demonstrates once again that the Japanese army's crimes related to the use of biological weapons were systematic and inhumane in nature and were an undeniable historical truth.
The base of Unit 731, a secret Japanese military unit engaged in the research and development of biological and chemical weapons, was established in the Pingfang district of Harbin City and served as the main center of Japanese biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia during World War II.
Historical records indicate that Unit 731 used at least 3,000 people in its human experiments between 1940 and 1945, and more than 300,000 people in China were killed by Japanese biological weapons. -0-
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