Japan: Dig Begins at Wartime Army Site Suspected in Prisoner Experiments (Unit 731)

[ao333]

Japan began excavations on Monday at a former army medical school to search for human remains linked to a notorious World War II program that allegedly conducted biological warfare in China and live experiments on foreign prisoners of war. The government has never acknowledged the activities of the military’s shadowy Unit 731, although they have been documented by historians and participants. The excavation follows revelations by a former nurse that she helped bury body parts at the Tokyo site as American forces began occupying the capital at the end of the war.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/world/asia/22briefs-japan.html?_r=1&ref=china

I'm guessing this means a lot to you guys.

 

[no_name]

If they can admit and return body parts to china that would be a helpful gesture.

 

[siegecrossbow]

As long as there are some acknowledgement of the harms done I think most Chinese people would be happy. Unfortunately the crimes committed by 731, which made Nazi human experiments look like Bambi, are not acknowledged as of this day.

 

[no_name]

Some of them were not experiments. They just had too many test subjects to know what to do with them.

In Taiwan, they would on occasions threw people suspected of anti-japanese activities straight to the dogs.

Most of the secret police were not punished due to KMT adopting a let live policy near the end of WWII, however the chief was kidnapped by people he wronged and their relatives.

He was carried to a remote mountain location and dismembered slowly by the crowd.

 

[marshall]

Most of the secret police were not punished due to KMT adopting a let live policy near the end of WWII, however the chief was kidnapped by people he wronged and their relatives.

He was carried to a remote mountain location and dismembered slowly by the crowd.

Do you have a source for this? I'd like to read up on it.

 

[no_name]

I can try to find the exact source for you (I may take awile, I don't remember the link), but there are lots of examples on the www.

http://lib.kshs.kh.edu.tw/lib/journals/journals-94/P243.pdf

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/vosswang-ha900401/article?mid=-2&prev=7565&l=a&fid=7

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/vosswang-ha900401/article?mid=-2&next=7565&l=a&fid=7

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

An appropriate apology would strengthen the tie between the two groups of people.

 

[CardSharp]

Some of them were not experiments. They just had too many test subjects to know what to do with them.

In Taiwan, they would on occasions threw people suspected of anti-japanese activities straight to the dogs.

Most of the secret police were not punished due to KMT adopting a let live policy near the end of WWII, however the chief was kidnapped by people he wronged and their relatives.

He was carried to a remote mountain location and dismembered slowly by the crowd.

Yet the DPP continues to believe these things didn't happen to Chinese people.

An appropriate apology would strengthen the tie between the two groups of people.

We just sent two useless black and white bears to Japan.

Panda diplomacy to boost China-Japan ties

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Yet the DPP continues to believe these things didn't happen to Chinese people.

Many DPP members are the offsprings of the right-wing Japanese Ultra-Nationalists. What do you expect from these people?