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These CBW camps and research laboratories employed over 20,000 physicians, surgeons, nurses, chemists,
biologists, microbiologists, veterinarians, entomologists, and plant pathologists. These scientists and medical
personnel were paid extra for their work. Surprisingly, although the development of CBW and the medical
experiments were done in secret, the Japanese medical community was well-informed about these experiments.
In fact, several fi lms of the vivisections were shown in Japan.
After Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945, the facility was set on fi re. On August 20, Unit 731 let
loose sixty horses that had been fed with glanders-infected oats. These radiated out in different directions to
villages, where they infected other animals. On that same day, Unit 731 set free thousands of bubonic plagueinfected
rats.
An estimated 580,000 people were killed in experimentation centers and by germ warfare.
Sheldon Harris is his landmark book, Factories of Death, has stated:
There were many miscreants who share responsibility for Japan’s chemical and biological
warfare programs. In fact, so many members of Japan’s scientifi c establishment, along with virtually
every military leader of note and members of the imperial family, either participated in chemical
or biological warfare research, or supported these projects with men, money, and material, that it
is diffi cult today to apportion exact blame or responsibility. But there is no doubt that the person
most responsible for converting Manchuria into one huge biological warfare laboratory during the
Japanese occupation was the young army doctor, Major Ishii Shiro.
Why were the Japanese interested in developing chemical and biological weapons? They were
cheaper to develop and produce than conventional weapons. They were effective, causing not
only military disruption but also social disruption.
Aside from the human suffering, what can we learn from these experiments that took place in
the not too distant past? Subsequent to the event, why was there a cover-up by the Japanese
and the American governments?
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