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unit 731  Unit 731: Japan's secret biological warfare in World War II Free Press, , Harris  After Japan occupied Manchuria in 1931, Ishii Shiro created Unit 731 and began testing biological weapons on unwilling human test subjects

Unit 731 was set up in 1938 in Japanese-occupied China with the aim of developing biological weapons It also operated a secret research and experimental school Unit 731 was set up in 1938 in Japanese-occupied China with the aim of developing biological weapons It also operated a secret research and experimental school

The major Japanese biological warfare unit in northeast China, Unit 731, that committed horrible atrocities from 1932 until the end of the Second World War  At Unit 731 alone, at least 3,000 people were tortured and murdered In addition, similar human experiments and vivisections were done at four branches of Unit