At the end of December 1949, the Soviet Union established a military court in its Far East coastal city of Khabarovsk (i.e. Boli City) to try 12 Japanese criminals of germ warfare.
Many war criminals in the court confessed to the fact that the 100th unit of the Japanese Invaders was engaged in the development and mass production of bacterial weapons, preparing and carrying out bacterial warfare, and revealed the mystery of this "demon" attempting to hide its tracks.
"731" is the public's abbreviation for the 731th unit of the Japanese invaders in China. This string of numbers represents a heinous "demon" unit, and is also engraved with a memory that brings pain to all mankind.
But what few people know is that Unit 731 also has a "twin brother"-the 100th Unit of the Japanese Invaders.
The same concealing evil intentions, the same heinous crimes, the same trying to cover up the countless crimes they have committed.
At the end of December 1949, the Soviet Union established a military court in its Far East coastal city of Khabarovsk (i.e. Boli City) to try 12 Japanese criminals of germ warfare.
In the courtroom, former Japanese Kwantung Army Commander Yamada Otsuzo, Kwantung Army Veterinary Department Head Takahashi Takahashi, Japanese Invaders 100th Unit Technical Backbone Hira Sakura, Santomo Kazuo and other war criminals confessed to Japanese Invaders 100th Unit (below The fact that the 100th unit is engaged in the development and mass production of bacterial weapons, and the preparation and implementation of bacterial warfare has unveiled the mystery of this "devil" trying to hide its tracks.
Demon Brother
After the September 18th Incident, the Kwantung Army mobilized its troops and quickly expanded to the hinterland of Northeast China.
In response to the frequent occurrence of horse epidemics in the Northeast battlefield, on September 20, 1931, the Kwantung Army’s Veterinary Department set up a temporary sick horse shelter in Fengtian (now Shenyang) to be responsible for wartime quarantine and treatment of military horses. Predecessor.
The following year, Shijing Shiro established Dongxiang Troops in the Beyin River on the outskirts of Harbin, the predecessor of Troop 731.
Not only did the two units have basically the same time of establishment, they also belonged directly to the Kwantung Army Headquarters in terms of affiliation, and the final leadership was in the Japanese Army Ministry and the General Staff Headquarters.
Zhao Shijian, a researcher at the Puppet Palace Museum, combed through relevant historical materials and found that the 100th unit has undergone several reorganizations and relocations after its establishment, and its functions have gradually changed from collecting and researching virulent vaccines to developing and producing bacterial weapons for war. .
According to Zhao Shijian, on February 15, 1933, the Kwantung Army Temporary Sick Horse Shelter was reorganized into the Kwantung Army Temporary Sick Horse Factory under the order of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and the site was moved from Fengtian (now Shenyang) to "Xinjing" (Now Changchun), the organization and personnel in the army have also been strengthened.
In April 1936, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Seishiro Itagaki, suggested to the Army Ministry that the Kwantung Army’s Temporary Sick Horse Factory should be “enhanced” as the Kwantung Army’s Army Horse Epidemic Prevention Plant and become a research organization for bacterial warfare countermeasures.
With the approval of the Japanese Army Ministry, the Kwantung Army's military horse epidemic prevention plant began to be reorganized.
In August, the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters and the Army Ministry simultaneously played to the emperor "The reorganization of the troops is complete."
At this point, the Kwantung Army Army and Horse Anti-epidemic Factory officially entered the stage of history.
By 1940, out of consideration of secrecy, the Japanese army had assigned secret "general titles" to the various Japanese troops invading China. The Kwantung Army's Anti-epidemic Plant and the Kwantung Army's Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department received the "full 100th" and "full" titles. 731" secret number.
A large number of historical photos and scanned archives were sealed in the window in the exhibition hall of the 100th unit of the Japanese invaders in the Museum of the Imperial Palace.
One of the documents named "Guan Shen Yi Fa No. 187" is particularly eye-catching.
Liu Long, a researcher at the Imperial Palace Museum of the Puppet Manchukuo, told reporters that this document is a document submitted by the Kwantung Army Headquarters to the Japanese Secretary of the Army Sugiyama Motomoto to appoint Kazuo Takashima and others to engage in military bacterial research, that is, "Military bacterial research practitioners order."
Approved by the Ministry of the Army of Japan, the army veterinarian Kazuo Osakojima and other 18 people are engaged in the research of "military bacteria" in the 100th unit of the Japanese army.
This completely opened the "cage" of the devil.
Zhao Shijian compiled the trial records of all war criminals such as Hirao Sakura, and confirmed that the then 100th unit chief Yoshiro Wakamatsu told the inside of the unit that "Once a war between Japan and the Soviet Union, the 100th unit should produce a large amount of bacteria and potent poisons. The factories in China used military and destructive germ warfare against the Soviet Union."
"This marks the official move of the 100th unit to organized national war crimes." Zhao Shijian said.
In order to achieve the purpose of epidemic prevention and preparation for germ warfare, the 100th unit set up a huge system consisting of the army headquarters, the general affairs department and the business departments.
The business departments are divided into the first, second, third, and fourth departments according to their functions. Among them, the second department is the most important core department of the 100th unit, and the original five departments.
In December 1943, Takahashi Takahashi, director of the Kwantung Army’s veterinary department, inspected the 100th unit and ordered the formation of the sixth division, which is responsible for the production and special preservation of bacterial weapons used in the bacterial warfare.
In addition to its headquarters, the 100th unit also set up a branch office (meaning "office" in Japanese) in Dalian, responsible for military horse quarantine and the supply of bacterial liquid, and a branch factory in Mudanjiang to cooperate with test activities.
According to the "Remaining List" of the 100th Japanese Army invading China collected from the National Archives of Japan in 2018 by the Imperial Palace Museum of Manchukuo, the largest number of its troops reached more than 900 people, and its claws extended to the entire northeastern region.
Sinful
Similar to Unit 731’s research on bacterial weapons under the pretext of research on disease prevention and drinking water purification, the criminal behavior of Unit 100 has been covered up even more grandiosely. It has been using military horses to prevent epidemics to cover up the true purpose of collecting, researching, and producing military bacteria. .
Zhao Lingshi, former party secretary and vice president of the Jilin Provincial Museum, has been engaged in research on the 100th unit since the 1980s. Through a series of evidence collected over the years, he has gradually uncovered the numerous crimes of this unit.
Zhao Lingshi introduced that in order to research and manufacture bacterial weapons for bacterial warfare against animals and plants as soon as possible, the 100th unit consciously collected virulent vaccines from various parts of the Northeast when it was called a temporary sick horse shelter. Anthrax and pseudomallei are the main ones.
"These two diseases have strong characteristics of cross-infection between humans and animals, and have rapid onset and high mortality. These two virulent pathogens have not only become the focus of the 100th unit's quarantine, but also the focus of the unit's future bacterial warfare."
In order to speed up the research of military bacteria, the 100th unit used a large number of animals for experiments.
"According to post-war investigations, the 100th unit bred and obtained tens of thousands of experimental animals such as rats, rabbits, and horses each year. Among them, a considerable part of them were plundered by innocent people." Zhao Lingshi said.
In order to test the efficacy of bacteria, the 100th unit also secretly conducted frantic live experiments on humans.
Peng Chao, a researcher at the Palace Museum of the Puppet Manchukuo, told reporters that in the 1950s, after the Boli trial, Changchun City conducted an on-site inspection of the site of the 100th unit.
During the inspection, bone remnants and burial pits of many people were found, which confirmed the places where the corpses were buried after in vivo experiments.
According to file records, the former member of the 100th Army and Army Veterinary Lieutenant Keitaro Ando confirmed that from 1944 to 1945, he had personally witnessed experiments on living people as guinea pigs. The subjects were Chinese and white.
Zhao Lingshi told reporters that in 2000, he saw important incriminating information of the 100th unit-"A report" and "G report" from Sheldon H. Harris, an expert on modern American history and germ warfare research.
The two reports recorded the "research results" of the human in vivo experiment in the form of graphics: "The 54th case received an anthrax spore infection for 7 days and was then sent to the dissection table. The main pathological changes revealed by the dissection were... …" "Case No. 224 received 4 days of treatment before his death. Anatomy of it proved to have organic damage..." "Case No. 180 survived for 12 days..." Innocent lives turned into Pieces of cold text.
It is based on the conclusions obtained from human experiments that the 100th unit applied it to field exercises after the effectiveness of the bacteria was debugged.
From July to August 1942, the 100th troop dispatched 30 people from the village of Konano Shaozuo to the Sanhe area of "North Hinggan Province (name of the region established during the period of the Puppet Manchukuo <1932-1945>)" to carry out anthrax, The pseudomallei exercise involves spreading anthrax on the rivers, pastures, and shore soils that the Soviet army must pass through at the border between China and the Soviet Union. Once someone is infected, it may spread to the Chinese and Soviet officers and livestock on a large scale.
The 100th unit also used full horsepower to produce bacterial weapons. Zhao Shijian discovered in historical data that Takahashi Takahashi personally reported to the then commander of the Kwantung Army Umezu Mijiro at the end of 1943, "The 100th unit produces anthrax every year. 1,000 kg of bacteria, 500 kg of nasal bacteria, and 100 kg of rust bacteria." Although the scale of production is not as good as that of Unit 731, its destructive power is not much greater.
The truth is true
Unlike the well-known facts of Unit 731, the evidence of the 100th Unit was almost hidden in a corner of history.
"On the eve of Japan's defeat, the Japanese Army Ministry ordered the Kwantung Army Command to destroy or take away all information and equipment related to the 100th unit in advance, and the experimental facilities in the unit were also severely damaged." Zhao Shijian said.
According to the survey data in Changchun City after the war, Wang Jun, a citizen who served as a coachman in the 100th unit, said that he saw a large number of photos burned with gasoline in front of the unit’s office. Obviously destroying evidence.
In the post-war trial, the crimes of the 100th unit were also covered up.
Peng Chao combed through historical data and found that after Japan’s surrender, the U.S. military occupied Japan in the name of an Allied Power and formed a scientist investigation team headed by MIT Dean Compton, and conducted three investigations into Japan’s germ warfare. Formed the "Sanders Report", "Thompson Report" and "Fair Report".
These reports, together with letters of complaint sent to the Legal Affairs Bureau of the Supreme Command of the Allied Forces, fully proved the criminal fact that living human bodies were used to conduct bacterial experiments in Japan during the bacterial warfare including the 100th unit of the Japanese invaders.
However, these investigation results did not become evidence against the 100th unit.
War criminals such as Ishii Shiro, Wakamatsu Yujiro, Kikuchi Qi, etc. were either arranged to confess or were not handed over to the post-war trial. As a result, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East did not try the Japanese invasion of China for the germ war crimes.
It was not until the Boli Trial at the end of December 1949 that it was the first time to openly expose the truth of Japan's preparation and implementation of the germ warfare during its invasion of China.
In the 1950s, during the investigation of the crimes committed by the 100th unit in Changchun, a series of materials were obtained by taking photos and interviewing insiders.
Some people who had worked as laborers in the 100th unit also used their own experiences to restore the evil deeds of this "devil army".
This greatly complements the confession materials of the Boli trial, and also confirms that the 100th unit used living human bodies to conduct bacterial experiments to prepare and implement the crime of bacterial warfare.
Regrettably, the brutal aggressor has not been punished due to it.
"Most of the 100th unit returned to Japan after the war. Except for a few individuals who took the initiative to expose the 100th unit's human experiments and other crimes, most of them chose to conceal this history. Some people even returned to Japan. Become a well-known figure in Japanese veterinary science." Peng Chao said.
The truth cannot be annihilated.
In the Palace Museum of the Puppet Manchukuo, a special research group composed of multiple researchers has achieved a series of gratifying research results.
They collected a large number of archives and cultural relics, classified and arranged them, and built an exhibition hall with the theme of the display of the 100th unit of the Japanese army invading China, and the historical truth of the 100th unit’s violation of international conventions and conspiracy to carry out germ warfare. Presented before the world.
On the east side of Zhenxing Road in the Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone of Changchun City, among verdant trees, a mottled chimney stands quietly. This only visible above-ground building left by the 100th unit has been protected as a national key cultural relic. And built a site garden on its foundation, for future generations to pay respect and remember.
"Whether it is Unit 731 or Unit 100, the numerous crimes they have committed should be nailed to the pillar of shame in history." said Wang Zhiqiang, director of the Palace Museum of the Puppet Manchukuo: "We hope to complete that period of history through a series of studies and exhibitions. The earth is presented to the world, taking history as a mirror and not allowing historical tragedies to repeat themselves.” (Zhang Boyu)