Japan's militaristic behavior during the war is well known to the world. In China, the loss of material property suffered by Chinese when it was invaded by Japan can be said to be shocking to the people of the world. This is not the most appalling, but most heinous, the personal and mental damage caused by the Japanese invaders to the Chinese people.
The following is to introduce that hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed in the Inhumane Germ Warfare of the Japanese Army, and it is particularly heinous that more than 12,000 people were brutally killed by the evil Japanese army as a "living experiment" inhumanely. We must keep history firmly in mind, learn lessons, and never forget the national shame.
Site of the 731 unit
The commission of germ warfare is a flagrant violation of humanitarian and public international law. As early as June 1925, the countries signed the Agreement on the Prohibition of the Use of Suffocating Gas, Poison Gas and Bacteriological Weapons in War in Geneva. However, the Japanese militarists, on the other hand, brazenly risked the world and began to actively plan and prepare bacteriological weapons as early as the late 1920s.
In order to cover up this behavior, Japan gave them the lofty names, "Kamo Troops" and "Nara Troops", but in fact, they were a group of inhumane "demons", the infamous "731 Unit", and I will unveil them and let them show their ugly faces.
011. The ugly appearance of the "731 Unit"
After the Japanese invasion of China in 1933, a secret bacteriological research institute headed by Ishii was established in the Nangang area of Harbin, China, which was known as the "Kamo Unit" and the "Nara Force". At that time, in the Yinhe area of Wuchang County, Binjiang Province, a bacteriological experiment site was set up, with a total staff of about 1,000 people.
Unit 731
According to memoirs, the establishment of a bacteriological force in northeast China was "the possibility of obtaining a large number of non-Japanese living people to conduct bacteriological testing materials, and the area was also vast and close to the Soviet Union, which facilitated bacterial attacks on cities in the Soviet Far East." ”
It can be seen that Japan is under the influence of militarism, and on the battlefield, in their eyes, the enemy can be eliminated by all means, and it is precisely this that makes Japan behave inhumanely.
In order to enable the "731 Unit" to develop a large number of bacteriological weapons, the Japanese Emperor not only expanded the number of this unit to 3,000 people, but also invested a lot of money and equipped with extremely powerful equipment and equipment.
022. How poisonous is the "731" unit?
According to major general Kawashima Kiyoshi, who was then the general affairs minister and production director of the "731" unit, the production department could cultivate 3,000 kilograms of plague bacteria, 600 kilograms of anthrax bacteria and 1,000 kilograms of cholera bacteria per month. Most people have no idea about these numbers, so I will briefly explain the lethality of the plague bacteria, according to the war criminal Yataro Ueda, 1 gram of plague bacteria can infect 100 people, and the mortality rate is 100%.
Military doctor Shōsa and manufacturing section chief Hiroshi Yoshimitsu also confessed that they could cultivate 3,000 kilograms of rat vaccine in 1 month. Among them, if the 47.8 kg of rat vaccine is made into a bacterial bullet, its toxicity is 47.8 million people! It can be seen from this that the poison that can be produced by the production of Japanese bacteriological troops is enormous!
731 Unit test simulation
033, "Seven Three One" troops, demon slaughter
In the process of manufacturing and testing malignant infectious disease bacteria, because only fleas and rats, which are vectors with infectious diseases, are not enough to promote epidemics, "to this end, it is also necessary to understand the physiological conditions and physiological characteristics of people", so the evil Japanese army used Chinese to conduct living human experiments and perform vivisection tests that were unconscionable.
In order to carry out such experiments, special prisons were set up within the "731" unit to hold "prisoners" for experimental purposes, and these "prisoners" were simply called "logs". No one has ever been able to get out of this murderous cave alive.
According to trial records, about 500 to 600 people were killed each year, most of them Chinese and a few Soviet prisoners.
After Japan's defeat in the war that year, in order to conceal this evil deed, the "731" troops burned all the houses, equipment and documents when they fled in a hurry. The last 300 "logs" imprisoned were all killed with poison gas, and the bodies were dragged to a specially dug pit and burned, and none of them survived.
The above are all confessions made by the former members of the "731" unit.
Tribunal
04 Fourth, staged, premeditated operations
The Japanese army's germ warfare against China can be divided into three stages, and from the perspective of stages, the Japanese army's use of poison gas and other weapons in the face of the world is a premeditated operation, and from this point of view alone, the Japanese militarist forces should not be forgiven.
1. From the second half of 1937 to 1939, despicable means such as dropping bacteria on water sources were mainly used.
The Japanese army scattered a large number of cholera, typhoid fever and other germs in the drinking wells of important villages and towns in northern China, causing as many as 40,000 to 50,000 people in north China to die of illness in a month in August 1938. They even sent death squads posing as refugees to infiltrate our positions and rear areas, spreading bacteria in the water source, causing a lot of typhoid fever to our soldiers and civilians.
2. Frequent use of aircraft to drop germ bombs
In the second phase, in order to cooperate with the launch of the Pacific War, the Japanese Army headquarters ordered the strengthening of germ warfare. During this period, they have acted frequently and our people have suffered greatly. Ningbo, Zhejiang, Yiwu, Changde and other places have been repeatedly dropped by the Japanese army, and many people have been killed.
3. All kinds of cruel means
In the later stages of the invasion of China, the Japanese army prepared to carry out a large-scale bacteriological war in China in order to make a final bet on bacteriological weapons. It was only because the victory in the world anti-fascist war forced Japan to announce its unconditional surrender and the Soviet army to attack quickly, giving the Kwantung Army a annihilating blow, that the Chinese military and civilians were able to avoid this greater catastrophe.
05 Summary
The actions of the Japanese "731" troops have brought heavy pain to the Chinese people, and Japan's act of brazenly using bacteria as weapons in the face of the world is even more unforgivable, but China forgave Japan after the end of the war.
But China's forgiveness does not mean that China has forgotten this history. On the contrary, we should firmly remember history and never make the mistakes we have made.
It is a sad fact that Japan has tried to cover up this fact. It's not just china's heartache. It made the Hearts of the Japanese people even more cold, so a history teacher named Masataka Mori in Japan filmed a documentary on the evil deeds committed by the "731" germ force from a very objective point of view.
Once the documentary was broadcast, the students wrote in their hindsight: "Isn't Japan's brutal behavior toward China the greatest shame?" ”