Japanese germ-war atrocities undeniable

A large number of files discovered by the Jilin provincial archives administration recently reveal the grim world of helplessness and suffering that Japanese troops unleashed on China through their large-scale human experimentation, which was carried out by the notorious Unit 731.

The 81-volume written and audio-video materials were prepared by Japanese troops from 1936 to May 1945 and left behind in China when they hastily withdrew from the country after the end of World War II, Xinhua News Agency has said.

Unit 731, based in Pingfang district of Harbin in Heilongjiang province, was led by the infamous Japanese microbiologist Shiro Ishii. It was a covert biological warfare research and development unit that undertook human experimentation during Japanese occupation of parts of China. The notorious Japanese unit was the most active in China, where it carried out biological, bacterial and chemical weapons' tests on civilians and prisoners of war, which included Russians and Koreans.