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

by Hal Gold

It is said that the life expectancy of prisoners at the Fortress was a maximum of one month.

It was said that, because of the diarrhea, very few soldiers were fighting with

their pants on.

Whereas America wanted to forego trying some highly-educated medical researchers as war criminals as part of a quiet quid pro quo, the Soviets wanted to make noise.

When the American subs started coming into Singapore, the Japanese army was too disabled by sickness to fight them off. Cut off from food and munitions, Singapore fell.

Each of Japan’s kamikaze pilots was given a drink of Imperial saké before leaving on their missions. A Unit 731 member once told me that “that saké is laced with a stimulant that was developed in Unit 731.” Afterwards, I heard that the stimulant suppresses fear and agitates the pilots to throw themselves into the attack.

The main ingredient of the defoliant used in the Vietnam War was dioxin. Of course, Unit 731 conducted basic research using dioxin. America took those research records and used them.

We kenpeitai men sent three thousand people to their deaths in Unit 731. I pray for the repose of their souls.

People who repeat evil acts do not remember them.