"Human Experimentation" never ended. From Covid Vaccines to "war and oil" to the Palestinian Slaughterhouse, the game-plan remains the same. It's happening right in front of yours eyes, but you don't see it. You will become the next subject.
There is no one single atrocity committed by humans that we must venerate.
Atrocities are often times committed by those who profess to be victims.
An estimated 3,000 to 12,000 prisoners died directly inside the Pingfang headquarters of Unit 731 under the command of General Shiro Ishii. These victims were prisoners of war and civilians, mostly Chinese and Korean, who were subjected to fatal vivisections, infectious disease experiments, and extreme environmental testing.
When taking into account the broader biological warfare campaigns across the Chinese countryside, disease field tests conducted by Ishii's forces resulted in an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 deaths.
To explore the historical records and specific testimonies detailing these events, refer to these resources: PBS American Experience and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
The deal was made in secret. It was made in 1947. On one side was General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in occupied Japan. On the other side were the men who had run Unit 731. The men who had run Unit 731 had, between 1937 and 1945, conducted experiments on living human beings. The experiments were not the experiments of curiosity or accident. They were systematic. They were documented. They were designed to produce data. The data was what MacArthur wanted. The data was what the secret deal was about.
Unit 731 operated in Pingfang, Manchuria. It was a complex of buildings that occupied six square kilometers. It employed over three thousand personnel. It processed thousands of prisoners. The prisoners were called Maruta. Maruta means logs. They were called logs. The language of the unit called them logs. This was not accidental. The language was designed to remove the category of human being from the people being processed. Logs do not have rights. Logs do not require moral consideration. Logs are material. They called the prisoners logs and processed them accordingly.
The experiments were extensive. Prisoners were infected with plague, cholera, typhoid, and anthrax to study disease progression. Prisoners were subjected to vivisection, live surgery without anesthesia, to study organ function. Prisoners were frozen alive to study frostbite and hypothermia treatment. Prisoners were placed in pressure chambers and subjected to increasing pressure until their eyes hemorrhaged from their sockets. Prisoners were subjected to weapons testing. Live prisoners were used as targets for flamethrowers, grenades, and chemical weapons to assess wound patterns and survival thresholds. Prisoners were deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases through assault to study transmission. Prisoners were kept alive through multiple experiments. A prisoner who survived one experiment was not released. A prisoner who survived one experiment was used for the next one.
The commander of Unit 731 was a man named Shiro Ishii. He was a general. He was also a physician. He had a medical degree. He had taken an oath. He ran Unit 731 for eight years. After the war he was captured. He was questioned by American investigators. He offered a trade.
He offered all of Unit 731's research data in exchange for immunity from prosecution. MacArthur approved the trade. The State Department approved the trade. The data was worth more than the prosecution. This was the calculation. The data was human lives converted to information and the information was considered more valuable than the accountability for the conversion. Shiro Ishii was granted immunity. All Unit 731 researchers were granted immunity. They were not tried at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. They went home.
Shiro Ishii returned to Japan. He lived until 1959. He died of throat cancer at the age of sixty-seven. He was never tried. He was never convicted. He was never formally accused by the United States government that had given him immunity. He lived quietly. Some of his subordinates became prominent physicians. Some became professors at Japanese medical schools. Some published research. Some of the research they published after the war was built on data from Unit 731. Data from the experiments. Data from the logs.
The prisoners came from China, Korea, the Soviet Union, and other occupied territories. They were prisoners of war. They were political prisoners. They were civilians rounded up in occupied territories. They ranged in age. Some were children. Some were women. The records that survived suggest between three thousand and twelve thousand people were processed through Unit 731. The records are incomplete because many were destroyed before the Soviet advance.
Three thousand to twelve thousand people. Processed.
The United States kept the immunity deal secret for decades. The American researchers who received the data used it. The data informed American biological warfare research during the Cold War. The data from the experiments on the prisoners informed research conducted on American soil by American researchers. The chain of information ran from Pingfang to American laboratories. The logs had been converted to data. The data had been given to the Americans.
The Americans had used the data. The chain connected what happened in Manchuria between 1937 and 1945 to American research programs. This was documented. This was acknowledged.
This was not prosecuted.
A Japanese journalist named ShirÅ Ishii, a different Ishii, no relation, spent years investigating.
A researcher named Sheldon Harris spent years investigating. They produced books. The books are in libraries. The books are verifiable. The information is not hidden. It is in libraries. It is in the checkout history of anyone who has looked for it. The question is not whether it is knowable. The question is why it is not known. The question is what we choose not to know and why we choose not to know it. The question is about the active choosing. The data is available. The choosing is also available. We choose what we know. We choose what we call the logs. We choose what we trade immunity for. We make these choices. We make them quietly. We go home afterward. We have dinner with our families.
It is happening again.
Unit 731 operated in Pingfang, Manchuria. It was a complex of buildings that occupied six square kilometers. It employed over three thousand personnel. It processed thousands of prisoners. The prisoners were called Maruta. Maruta means logs. They were called logs. The language of the unit called them logs. This was not accidental. The language was designed to remove the category of human being from the people being processed. Logs do not have rights. Logs do not require moral consideration. Logs are material. They called the prisoners logs and processed them accordingly.
The experiments were extensive. Prisoners were infected with plague, cholera, typhoid, and anthrax to study disease progression. Prisoners were subjected to vivisection, live surgery without anesthesia, to study organ function. Prisoners were frozen alive to study frostbite and hypothermia treatment. Prisoners were placed in pressure chambers and subjected to increasing pressure until their eyes hemorrhaged from their sockets. Prisoners were subjected to weapons testing. Live prisoners were used as targets for flamethrowers, grenades, and chemical weapons to assess wound patterns and survival thresholds. Prisoners were deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases through assault to study transmission. Prisoners were kept alive through multiple experiments. A prisoner who survived one experiment was not released. A prisoner who survived one experiment was used for the next one.
The commander of Unit 731 was a man named Shiro Ishii. He was a general. He was also a physician. He had a medical degree. He had taken an oath. He ran Unit 731 for eight years. After the war he was captured. He was questioned by American investigators. He offered a trade.
He offered all of Unit 731's research data in exchange for immunity from prosecution. MacArthur approved the trade. The State Department approved the trade. The data was worth more than the prosecution. This was the calculation. The data was human lives converted to information and the information was considered more valuable than the accountability for the conversion. Shiro Ishii was granted immunity. All Unit 731 researchers were granted immunity. They were not tried at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. They went home.
Shiro Ishii returned to Japan. He lived until 1959. He died of throat cancer at the age of sixty-seven. He was never tried. He was never convicted. He was never formally accused by the United States government that had given him immunity. He lived quietly. Some of his subordinates became prominent physicians. Some became professors at Japanese medical schools. Some published research. Some of the research they published after the war was built on data from Unit 731. Data from the experiments. Data from the logs.
The prisoners came from China, Korea, the Soviet Union, and other occupied territories. They were prisoners of war. They were political prisoners. They were civilians rounded up in occupied territories. They ranged in age. Some were children. Some were women. The records that survived suggest between three thousand and twelve thousand people were processed through Unit 731. The records are incomplete because many were destroyed before the Soviet advance.
Three thousand to twelve thousand people. Processed.
The United States kept the immunity deal secret for decades. The American researchers who received the data used it. The data informed American biological warfare research during the Cold War. The data from the experiments on the prisoners informed research conducted on American soil by American researchers. The chain of information ran from Pingfang to American laboratories. The logs had been converted to data. The data had been given to the Americans.
The Americans had used the data. The chain connected what happened in Manchuria between 1937 and 1945 to American research programs. This was documented. This was acknowledged.
This was not prosecuted.
A Japanese journalist named ShirÅ Ishii, a different Ishii, no relation, spent years investigating.
A researcher named Sheldon Harris spent years investigating. They produced books. The books are in libraries. The books are verifiable. The information is not hidden. It is in libraries. It is in the checkout history of anyone who has looked for it. The question is not whether it is knowable. The question is why it is not known. The question is what we choose not to know and why we choose not to know it. The question is about the active choosing. The data is available. The choosing is also available. We choose what we know. We choose what we call the logs. We choose what we trade immunity for. We make these choices. We make them quietly. We go home afterward. We have dinner with our families.
It is happening again.
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