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

by Hal Gold

The Japanese army committed all sorts of cruelties in China and Southeast Asia. Japanese children know nothing about it. Why? Because the parents say nothing about it.” I also said nothing. These days, there are all sorts of moves toward friendship with China and Asian nations—but without children’s knowing these things it is impossible to establish real friendship. It is the duty of those who experienced war to tell these things to their children and grandchildren, to tell of the real horrors of war.

“The government spends all its time talking about low-level matters. If we keep going this way, the same situation will happen again.”

People criticize the youth of today for spending their time reading comic books and watching TV; grownups accuse them of not knowing what’s going on in the world. But, they are aware. They know what’s going on. And the grownups had better be aware, also.