Human experiments conducted by Dr Shirō Ishii
In 1932, he began his preliminary experiments in biological warfare as a secret project for the Japanese military at Zhongma Fortress. He then built a huge compound, Unit 731, which had more than 150 buildings over six square kilometers. The research was secret, and the cover story was that Unit 731 was engaged in water-purification work.
Dr Ishii Found that bio-weapons were banned in Europe and even in his own country Japan, so he and his army invaded Manchuria, a country of China, who was already weakened by civil war, this was to his advantage and he found that there were no restrictions on biological warfare, and this is were he started his experiments on humans. Manchuria becomes the testing ground for his unit 731, officially its job was combating epidemics, some see Unit 731 as the epicentre of the biggest controlled plagues along with the testing done by Soviet Russia and later by The United States.
One of Dr Ishii interests was what happen to humans in the inside when they are infected with the plague, this is exactly what he did, or what he got his workers do to, to infect prisoners with the plague then to dissect them alive, this was called a vivisection, and anesthetics were avoided as they would compromise the results. Large groups (roughly 40 men) of newly educated doctors were told or brought to a jail or prison without any idea of what was going to happen, these were the doctors that would perform the vivisection's and other operations. One group of men were gathered and brought to a jail were they were told to learn how to operate on a gunshot wound, this involved an officer shooting two men in the stomach twice in front of the group of doctors. One order by the chief doctor was to ''keep him alive until the bullets are removed.''
After all the testing Dr Ishii made sure no one else found out about his experiments, this means he killed all of the prisoners, first by poison gas, then those who survived were machine-gunned down, after they were killed all the bodies were ''barbecued''.
Once again the Japanese live by their Code of Honour, in this case the prisoners were of no value to the Japanese, so conducting experiments on them was not morally wrong as the prisoners were considered 'not-honourable' therefore there was no dishonour on experimentsing on the prisoners.
Dr Ishii Found that bio-weapons were banned in Europe and even in his own country Japan, so he and his army invaded Manchuria, a country of China, who was already weakened by civil war, this was to his advantage and he found that there were no restrictions on biological warfare, and this is were he started his experiments on humans. Manchuria becomes the testing ground for his unit 731, officially its job was combating epidemics, some see Unit 731 as the epicentre of the biggest controlled plagues along with the testing done by Soviet Russia and later by The United States.
One of Dr Ishii interests was what happen to humans in the inside when they are infected with the plague, this is exactly what he did, or what he got his workers do to, to infect prisoners with the plague then to dissect them alive, this was called a vivisection, and anesthetics were avoided as they would compromise the results. Large groups (roughly 40 men) of newly educated doctors were told or brought to a jail or prison without any idea of what was going to happen, these were the doctors that would perform the vivisection's and other operations. One group of men were gathered and brought to a jail were they were told to learn how to operate on a gunshot wound, this involved an officer shooting two men in the stomach twice in front of the group of doctors. One order by the chief doctor was to ''keep him alive until the bullets are removed.''
After all the testing Dr Ishii made sure no one else found out about his experiments, this means he killed all of the prisoners, first by poison gas, then those who survived were machine-gunned down, after they were killed all the bodies were ''barbecued''.
Once again the Japanese live by their Code of Honour, in this case the prisoners were of no value to the Japanese, so conducting experiments on them was not morally wrong as the prisoners were considered 'not-honourable' therefore there was no dishonour on experimentsing on the prisoners.