Unit 731
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Unit 731 , officially known as the Manchu Detachment 731 and also referred to as the Kamo Detachment and the Ishii Unit, was a secret research facility operated by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1933 and 1945. It was located in the Pingfang district of Harbin, in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, and maintained multiple branches across mainland China and Southeast Asia.
Unit 731 was a secret research facility run by the Imperial Japanese Army from 1933 to 1945, located in Harbin (in Japanese-controlled Manchukuo) with branches across China and Southeast Asia. It is historically significant because it represents a major covert military operation during World War II that conducted biological and chemical weapons research.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- military unit
- Part of
- Kwantung Army
- Field of work
- rape
- Country
- Japan
- Founded by
- Kempeitai
- Headquarters
- Pingfang District
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- Imperial Japanese Army
- Image
- Unit 731 - Complex.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 3000
- Significant event
- Khabarovsk War Crime Trials
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- Commons category
- Unit 731
- inception
- 1936-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1945-00-00
- commanded by
- Shirō Ishii
- affiliation
- Kwantung Army
- significant person
- Chikahiko Koizumi
- facet of
- Japanese war crimes
- has characteristic
- dehumanization
- present in work
- Wife of a Spy
- described by source
- Philosophy of a Knife
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Encyclopedic overview
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), officially known as the Manchu Detachment 731 and also referred to as the Kamo Detachment and the Ishii Unit, was a secret research facility operated by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1933 and 1945. It was located in the Pingfang district of Harbin, in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now part of Northeast China), and maintained multiple branches across mainland China and Southeast Asia.
Unit 731 was responsible for large-scale biological and chemical warfare research, as well as lethal human experimentation. The facility was led by General Shirō Ishii and received strong support from the Japanese military. Its activities included infecting prisoners with deadly diseases, conducting vivisection, performing organ harvesting, testing hypobaric chambers, amputating limbs, and exposing victims to chemical agents and explosives. Prisoners—often referred to as "logs" by the staff—were mainly Chinese civilians, but also included Russians, Koreans, and others, including children and pregnant women. No documented survivors are known.
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