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# Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program (Tuttle Classics)

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Nearly Forgotten Atrocity.
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2023*

Unit 731 is still an obscure outcrop of the mentality of WWII. It is a near-hidden atrocity in an era that is famous for its atrocities. Unit 731 started as a branch of the Japanese military which attended to increasing the hygiene of the army and reduce the spread of disease. That quickly changed into cultivating bacteria to use in biological warfare. Not many of their idea were used. It was determined that diseases have a tendency to bounce back and hit the side spreading the disease. This is not stop the testing, however. And many civilians, mostly Chinese, were deliberately given diseases and then had vivisections performed on them to watch the progress of the bacteria. Others had their limbs frozen until they developed frostbite, so the doctors could determine the best way to prevent tissue damage. A lot of Chinese lost their arms and legs as the doctors worked on this.Why is Unit 731 so obscure? First, there was a deliberate cover-up. Not just during the end of WWII, but for two generations afterwards. There was no way for the Nazi's to cover their crimes, but these were obscure enough and hidden in official secrecy, that the members of the unit could skirt detection. Secondly, the communist Chinese government themselves never raised an international stink. That is why the Unit and the Rape of Nanking remain almost unknown in modern stories of WWII. Third, MacArthur had them deliberately excluded from the war crimes trials in Japan in exchange for the medical data they had gathered. So why is it obscure? It was to become so by all the nations involved.This book contains what background history still exists about the unit, plus an explanation of the experiments carried out. The last third is filled with testimonials of former workers in Unit 731. This is a small sample of the hundreds involved in the unit. Most of the biggest criminals died without confession, or even receiving much punishment, if any.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Horrific, but important
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2022*

It's an unfortunate fact of history (and partly, though incompletely explained in this book) that the horrors of Japan's Unit 731 have gone largely unknown by far too many people.  Even among those who consider themselves historically literate, this particular episode seems to have escaped widespread scrutiny or analysis.  If you're trying to understand what happened in that "infamous" program, this book might be a decent place to start.The book is divided into two parts.  The first half consists of a brief historical treatment of Unit 731.  The information is enlightening, though I would argue this is the book's weaker portion.  Documented facts are mixed with more questionable anecdotes.  While the bigger picture presented by the book is historically solid, this does make it a bit difficult to determine which information is most reliable when analyzing the details.The book also spends arguably too much time discussing the postwar lives of Unit 731's membership and the various political maneuvers that led most of them to escape any sort of accountability.  That's an important part of the story, of course, but if you're reading the book to understand Unit 731 itself, I would argue that it needs a bit more detail on the events that took place during the war itself, rather than the prewar and postwar periods.However, where the book really shines is in its second half, consisting of firsthand accounts from witnesses to Unit 731.  Horrifyingly, all of these accounts are written by the perpetrators, as there were no surviving victims.  But that also arguably makes the book all the more valuable because it helps the reader to understand something of the psychology behind what happened.Undoubtedly, this book is an unpleasant read.  That's not through any fault in its prose or structure (though it is a little on the dry side at times), but simply because the subject matter is among the most horrific ever found in a bookstore's non-fiction section.  But while it's unpleasant, it's also important, and I'd encourage everyone to read it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Heart wrenching
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2022*

This book goes in great detail to explain the big picture of unit 731 and then in part two gives witness accounts of what happened. Absolutely gruesome and emotional to think about the people who were hurt and killed, no painful details were spared. Not for the faint of heart. Only giving 4 stars because there was a lot of repetition.

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