When Germ Warfare Happened (Imperial Japan's Unit 731 1932-1945)

City Journal ^ | Spring 2010 | Judith Miller

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yep. They did all that.

They were really only outdone perhaps by Hitler in the European camp structure, not to mention millions under Stalin, and probably even way more killed under Mao Tze Tung than under the Imperial Japan flag, as bad as that was. I would place Mao at the top of all of these atrocities. They will pay in hell.

[redgolum]

The war would have continued.

Unit 731 was largely forgotten because by VJ day, we were worried about the Soviets. And they were not prosecuted because the Japanese did not fight the USSR, so the communists and the American press could have cared less.

[CholeraJoe]

Here's a more likely culprit for the "rotten legs" of the farmers. It's endemic to Asia and was a not uncommon problem with soldiers in Vietnam.

Pseudomonas pseudomallei - Causative organism of Mellioidosis

[GOPJ]

Another reason that I am glad they nuked the Japanese instead of invading. An invasion would have triggered a germ or virus attack.

Good point. Thanks for sharing.

[neverdem]

Here's a more likely culprit for the "rotten legs" of the farmers. It's endemic to Asia and was a not uncommon problem with soldiers in Vietnam.

Indeed, it crossed my mind.

"In Blood-Weeping Accusations, a book in Chinese and English published by the Chinese Communist Party in 2005, some Chinese researchers conclude that anthrax caused the wounds. But at least two American physicians—Martin Furmanski, a pathologist and physician who wrote an essay in the book, and Michael Franzblau, a retired professor of dermatology at the University of California—believe that the culprit is Burkholderia mallei, or glanders."

Burkholderia isn't in my micro book from the late 1980s. Search Burkholderia Pseudomonas Mellioidosis. You might get dizzy.

[gaijin]

Unit 731 also performed experimentation on a small number of westerners. It would have been the noose for them, but for one thing; the looming possibility of war in Korea.

The view was that Stalin-supplied forces there might use bio-warfare, for which the expertise in attack also neatly overlap with expertise in defense.

Suddenly the data from Unit 731 became huuuugely valuable.

So they were all spared —they were needed.

The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (he was a ship-building big-shot) was heeeeavily mobbed up with the bad bro’s from Unit 731 and the Yakuza.

He wanted a Nobel Peace Prize —the upper floor of his museum in Shinagawa features photos of him smiling with nearly every big-shot you can think of, of course including Jimmy Carter.

[SunkenCiv]

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