Unit 731: Japan's Dark Medical Experiments Biological Warfare, Human Experimentation, and the Failure of Postwar Accountability in Manchuria
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Altersempfehlung
1 - 99 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
14.03.2026
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EpubliSeitenzahl
218 (Printausgabe)
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1830 KB
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2. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9783565324798
Between 1936 and 1945, a covert Japanese military unit operated a vast research complex outside Harbin, Manchuria, conducting biological and medical experiments on thousands of prisoners - Chinese, Korean, Soviet, and Allied - without anesthesia, consent, or any pretense of therapeutic purpose. Unit 731, commanded by Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii, tested plague, cholera, and frostbite on living subjects, conducted vivisections, and weaponized pathogens deployed against Chinese civilian populations. Conservative estimates place the death toll at over 3,000 within the facility alone.
This book reconstructs Unit 731 through survivor testimony, postwar Soviet war crimes trial transcripts, declassified American intelligence documents, Japanese military records, and archaeological evidence from the Harbin site. It examines the institutional and ideological framework that made the program possible - the dehumanization embedded in Imperial Japanese military culture, the administrative structures that insulated Ishii from oversight, and the deliberate scientific framing that recruited trained medical professionals into participation.
Equally, it examines the postwar decision that allowed most Unit 731 personnel to escape prosecution. American occupation authorities, seeking Ishii's biological warfare data before the Soviets could obtain it, granted immunity to the program's leadership in exchange for research findings - a transaction that shaped the incomplete justice that followed and left survivor communities without acknowledgment for decades.
A rigorously sourced, ethically grounded account of one of the twentieth century's gravest medical atrocities - and the institutional failures that preceded, enabled, and ultimately protected it.
This book reconstructs Unit 731 through survivor testimony, postwar Soviet war crimes trial transcripts, declassified American intelligence documents, Japanese military records, and archaeological evidence from the Harbin site. It examines the institutional and ideological framework that made the program possible - the dehumanization embedded in Imperial Japanese military culture, the administrative structures that insulated Ishii from oversight, and the deliberate scientific framing that recruited trained medical professionals into participation.
Equally, it examines the postwar decision that allowed most Unit 731 personnel to escape prosecution. American occupation authorities, seeking Ishii's biological warfare data before the Soviets could obtain it, granted immunity to the program's leadership in exchange for research findings - a transaction that shaped the incomplete justice that followed and left survivor communities without acknowledgment for decades.
A rigorously sourced, ethically grounded account of one of the twentieth century's gravest medical atrocities - and the institutional failures that preceded, enabled, and ultimately protected it.
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