Posted on 05/28/2010 10:20:43 AM PDT by mojito
....These attacks, orchestrated by Japan’s infamous Unit 731 between 1932 and 1945, are the only documented mass use of germ weapons in modern times. Scholars say that we will never know exactly how many were killed. Sheldon H. Harris, the late American historian, estimated in a pioneering work that between 10,000 and 12,000 Chinese prisoners perished in the bloodcurdling experiments that Unit 731 performed in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Another 300,000 to 500,000 civilians died, he wrote, as a result of Japan’s massive germ assaults on more than 70 Chinese cities and towns. China itself has disclosed no official tally. In fact, for many years, Japan’s use of biological weapons in China was largely forgotten.
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The japs were pretty brutal.
And we were brutal right back to them until they unconditional surrendered.
Some lessons have to be learned over and over...
Almost-unconditional.
The emperor was not touched.
I remember being told once that the Japanese were experimenting on germ warfare against us by sending out floating balloons attached to vials containing nothing, but the flights were supposed to tell the Japanese how far of a range they could cover f they decided to send off a vial containing actual gersm or viruses.
Another reason that I am glad they nuked the Japanese instead of invading. An invasion would have triggered a germ or virus attack.
Pity. I wonder what would have happened if they had prosecuted the Emperor.
That wasn’t a “condition”, it was a choice.
The emperor himself was learned in marine biology and was said to be fascinated by the subject of biological warfare.
“Room Six of the museum contains a display of the high- and low-altitude bombs that the Japanese developed to disseminate their lethal cargo. One bomb included a porcelain cylinder to prevent germs from destruction on impact. Another was called “Mother and Daughters”—the Mother part of the weapon coming with a radio device that would detonate a cluster of germ-loaded Daughter bombs. That weapon proved too expensive for mass production, Harris observed. But other types of anthrax-, plague-, and bacteria-filled bombs were tested on hundreds of prisoners, who were tied to stakes in the ground and died in agony.”
Monsters and utterly inhumane.
Turned out he'd been captured on Wake Island as a not-so-young civilian worker and spent the war in the Land of the Rising Sun as a POW....he still hated Nippers with a vengeance, any and all.
I’ve read that the vials launched from Japanese subs by balloon to contained plague infected flees. There were also attempts to start forest fires in the pacific northwest with incendiaries launched the same way. Neither attempts were reported as successful.
They also plotted to attack America’s west coast with biological agents. Send infected fleas (in clay pots) into cities to spread disease via vermin.
They also did frostbite experiments and live autopsies.
Every bit as hideous as the acts carried out by Nazi scientists.
If Japan and/or Germany had the bomb,history would be quite different.
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Following their Cleansing By Fire, they've been pretty reasonable.
“In 1940, Major General Ishii sent a train carrying 70 kilograms of typhus bacterium, 50 kilograms of cholera germs, and 5 kilograms of plague-infected fleas to the city of Hangzhou...the germs were dumped into ponds and reservoirs and spread by aerial spraying, contaminating all life in fields of wheat and millet during the harvest.
....[N}ear...the small town of Quzhou, a Japanese plane dropped plague-infected fleas in October 1940. The first victims died a few days later. By 1948, more than 5,000 people had perished.”
They did send baloons our way that killed a number of people. They covered it up to make sure Japan didn’t learn that they were so effective and send many more.
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