Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“As Japan’s defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, still-simmering disputes, freshly unearthed discoveries, and historical lessons waiting to be learned. The release of WWII-era military documents this year has given a boost to researchers digging into Japan’s notorious germ warfare program, which lasted from 1936 to 1945. … Unit 731 is estimated to have killed around 3,000 people, while bioweapons developed by other branches of the program are believed to have killed far more. Japan’s government has never apologized for Unit 731’s actions, and insists that it has found no evidence that the unit experimented on Chinese prisoners, even though a Tokyo court ruled in 2002 that the military had conducted such experiments and waged biological warfare.” (08/14/25)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5497951/japan-germ-warfare-biological-wwii