In the shadows of World War II, Japan built a secret unit that turned human beings into test subjects. Unit 731’s story is one of horror, cruelty, and silence. Coffee found to have startling effect on ...

Newly released wartime records from the Hailar branch of Japan's notorious Unit 731. Photo: Xinhua Newly released wartime records from the Hailar branch of Japan's notorious Unit 731 reveal how the ...

It's a scene from a nightmare. Captured prisoners are purposely infected with deadly diseases, from plague to cholera and tuberculosis, exposed to freezing temperatures, given poisoned food, dissected ...

Previously classified personnel rosters of lesser-known wartime bacteriological units deployed in China, hidden since the end ...

New research by Japanese scholar Seiya Matsuno suggests that military doctors at the Japanese Army Medical School conducted human experiments on Japanese soldiers with mental illnesses during Japan’s ...

HARBIN, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Japanese troops conducted live human experiments involving mosquito-borne diseases on their own soldiers during World War II (WWII), according to new research released ...