Because of the lie to the Pingfang locals that the facility was a lumber mill, researchers joked that prisoners were maruta, the Japanese word for “log.” As technician Yoshio Shinozuka remembers, Unit ...

The Imperial Japanese Army demolished Unit 731 facilities and destroyed related documents immediately before the war ended. It is said that former members were ordered not to disclose the unit’s ...

Only later did he realize he had helped destroy evidence of one of the 20th century’s most horrific war crimes: the actions of Unit 731, a covert branch of the Japanese military that tortured ...