and why?
>4. In what ways were responsibilities of the prisoners' countries
not upheld and why?
3. and 4. These questions are too naive to answer. Rights violated? The Japanese in Unit 731 taught
new interns/doctors on how to do operations in combat zones by having them practice on live Chinamen so the young doctors could get used to operating with patients screaming and thrashing in pain.
This was Unit 731.
>5. How did this topic affect you, and how did you come to know about it?
5. I have read about WW2 for fifty years and kept finding
reference to a mysterious Unit-731, but never what they did
or any other details. While writing the WW2Pacific web site -
with a goal to relate the early years of WW2 to the modern age -
I had to specifically research the topic. My problem is that
the activities of Unit 731 are so horrendous, that
(a) People will never believe the massive scale of brutality.
(b) I find myself becoming desensitized by the facts and now see
it as a social case study, without passion, rather than one of
the most atrocious examples of man's inhumanity to man.
And within my lifetime. I hope your generation never experiences
an example as bad. Yet, without reminders, our passive
(anti-violence) society may never be prepared for the eventual
invasion of the barbarians.