Unit 731

Studenst: Kerlyn Priscila B.C.

Cesar David S.B.
 what is unit 371?
amputations without anesthesia, injections of lethal diseases, Freezing
experiments, Weapons experiments, Rape and forced pregnancy, Germ warfare.

Some of the worst war crimes in history were part of Unit 731, a Japanese group
that acted under the cover of World War II and carried out a series of
experiments.

start in 1935 and end in 1945

It existed between 1936 and 1945
in the city of Harbin, in the north
of China, at that time invaded by
the imperial troops of Japan.
Who created Squad 731?

Dr. Shirō Ishii, organizer and

head of Unit 731. Ishii was
born in Shibayama, Sanbu
district, in 1892 and studied
medicine at Kyoto Imperial
University
 freezing experiments
Yoshimura Hisato, a psychologist assigned to Unit
731, took a special interest in hypothermia. As
part of the "Maruta" studies of limb injuries,
Hisato routinely immersed prisoners' limbs in a
bathtub filled with water and ice and kept them
there until the arm or leg froze into a layer of ice.
ice on the skin

mutilate human bodies, without

anesthesia, to study the functioning of
living systems
 Evidently, the effectiveness of various weapons was of interest to the Japanese
military. To test this aspect, Unit 731 would line up prisoners at a distance and fire
several volleys from multiple Japanese weapons, including the Nambu 8mm
pistol, bolt-action rifles, submachine guns, and grenades. Next, wound patterns
and depths were compared on the corpses and dying prisoners.

those prisoners infected with the disease and left them untreated to observe the
uninterrupted course of the disease.
After being infected with various diseases, exposed to
chemical weapons, having suffered crushing wounds,
gunshot wounds and shrapnel wounds, these pregnant
women were opened to study the effects on the fetus.
10,000 and
40,000
dead