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 ...

Despite being startled awake by horrific nightmares of World War II, Hideo Shimizu remained silent about what he had ...

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 ...

Chinese media representatives swarmed around a small-statured man as he apologized before a memorial monument on the ...

Unit 731 was a covert Japanese biological warfare program that conducted lethal experiments on thousands of prisoners during ...

Journalist Aimee Tsujimoto has researched war crimes committed by the Japanese Empire during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-45), focusing on the former Manchuria (now northeastern China), and compiled ...

The release of WWII-era military documents this year has given a boost to researchers digging into Japan's germ warfare program. Japan's... New details emerge about Japan's notorious WWII germ warfare ...