Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program

by Hal Gold

This book outlines medical experimentation that was conducted by Unit 731, heinous acts including injecting human subjects with pathogens; monitoring the progress of diseases by drawing blood samples from and conducting vivisection on live individuals; exposing human subjects to infected insects in an open-air testing field; infecting a healthy individual with venereal disease by way of forced sexual intercourse with a carrier of venereal disease; causing frostbite on limbs by exposing them to water and cold air in a sub-zero temperature environment; and collecting human specimens—organs, body parts, and even entire bodies of human subjects—which were subsequently kept at Unit 731’s lab and the army medical facilities in Tokyo.