China News Agency, Harbin, August 15 (Reporter Yifu Shi) The International Research Center for 731 Issues of the Harbin Academy of Social Sciences released on the 15th that the institute’s "Collation and Research of Historical Materials on Bacteriological Warfare in the Japanese Collection" project reviewed papers published by members of Unit 731. It reveals the anti-human and anti-civilization nature of Unit 731, and at the same time reveals the ethical distortions, medical atrocities, and war crimes under the militarism of its wartime medical research.

　　The full name of Unit 731 is the 731th Anti-epidemic Water Supply Unit of the Kwantung Army of Japan in Manchuria. It is an institution where the Japanese invaders used living Chinese, Koreans, and prisoners of war to conduct biological and chemical weapons experiments under the guise of research on disease prevention and drinking water purification. .

　　When Japan was defeated and surrendered, in order to destroy evidence of crimes, Unit 731 blew up most of the important facilities and burned down relevant archives before fleeing, which brought great obstacles to exposing Unit 731’s crimes after the war.

　　Lu Dan, an assistant researcher at the International Research Center for 731 Issues of the Harbin Academy of Social Sciences, said: “Archives can be destroyed and concealed, but the academic papers published by members of the army at the time cannot be covered up. The important information in the article provides us with the opportunity to expose the crimes of Unit 731. Strong evidence."

　　The study found that the core members of Unit 731 published a large number of academic papers and research reports in medical journals. The articles involved detailed data such as "human experiments", "bacterial weapons", and "special epidemic prevention". The publication time and research content covered the preparation and implementation of bacteria by Unit 731 The entire stage of the war.

　　“Among them, Masaji Kitano, the second commander of Unit 731, is the most typical.” Ru Dan said that during Masaji Kitano’s tenure, Unit 731 had the most advanced research equipment for bacterial warfare and the largest scale of human experiments. Leading Unit 731 completed the research and development of large-scale bacterial warfare and accelerated the mass production of bacterial weapons. (Finish)