After the war, there were fantastic payments to former Unit 731 members. Some people got up to two million yen. That kind of money was unheard of in those days, around 1948 or 1949. It was unbelievable. Maybe the American army brought it in: I don’t know where it came from, but, almost without exception, anyone connected in any way at all with Unit 731 got something. That was the best-paying job there was. A lot of university professors were connected with Unit 731. Especially upper-level people, like in the Ministry of Health and Welfare and those concerned with vaccines. They all had some
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