The horrors of Nazi medical experiments during World War II are widely known, but Japan's Unit 731 in occupied China remains a lesser-explored chapter of wartime atrocities, according to researchers ...

The scars left by Unit 731, Japan's World War II germ-warfare unit, have never fully faded. Decades later, the search for ...

TOKYO — 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, ...

The newly released archives handed over by Russia once again prove that Japanese Unit 731 - the notorious germ-warfare unit of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II - committed countless ...

Chinese archaeologists invoke Nuremberg in renewed call for a comparable legal reckoning for Japanese atrocities ...

For decades, the nightmarish legacy of Japan's Unit 731 during World War II has been shrouded in secrecy, but a new scientific study is bringing much-needed attention to this dark chapter in history.

TOKYO (AP) — Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy "The Devil’s Gluttony" exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World ...

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