What was Unit 731 in World War 2?

These six "experiments" by Unit 731 rank among some of the most horrifying war crimes ever committed — and they went virtually unpunished. read more

Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II. read more

Unit 731 was a research unit for biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Japanese Army. It was known for the most notorious war crimes carried out by the Japanese. They experimented on human subjects like the Nazi's. read more

'UNIT 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warefre in World War II'' by Peter Williams and David Wallnce (The Free Press, 1989). Japan's biological weapons program was born in the 1930s, in part because Japanese officials were impressed that germ warfare had been banned by the Geneva Protocol of 1925. read more