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@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 The 100,000 pages of classified documents on Unit 731 held by the U.S. showed absolutely no evidence that Unit 731 conducted human experiments or waged germ warfare, proving that everything that was said after the WW2 was a baseless fabrication.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 It also revealed records of individual interrogations of those involved in Unit 731, including Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii, as well as top-secret documents supporting the fact that Ishii wrote the results of his germ warfare research and handed them over to the US in June 1947

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 The IWG, formed in 1999 during the Clinton admin to investigate the "war crimes" of Nazi Germany and Japan, searched desperately for documents that supported not only human experimentation, but also the "comfort women" and other misdeeds, but found no evidence to support them.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 In other words, the Clinton administration had already discovered that "sex slavery" was a false accusation in investigations since 1999. However, our ally, the US, kept its mouth shut.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 At the detention facility in Mukden, they investigated whether Allied POWs were subjected to human experiments, and whether balloon bombs from Japan could be used for germ warfare, but they also found a document concluding that "for the time being, germ warfare is not envisioned.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 Unit 731 was originally established in 1936 by Seishiro Itagaki, the then Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army, as the "Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention Department. The communicable diseases control of war horses was also under its jurisdiction.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 These two departments were merged in 1940 to form the "Kanto Army communicable diseases control and Water Supply Department.This is commonly known as the "Manchurian Unit 731.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 During the Nomonhan Incident (1939), which became a major event for this unit, Lieutenant General Ishii invented a special technology, the Ishii Water Filter, to supply water in the area.
In the Eurasian continent, there was a custom of dumping feces & urine directly into rivers

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 As a result, even in the West, a plague epidemic has occurred in the past, resulting in the loss of one third of the population.Therefore, a hygienic water supply on the continent is very important for military operations.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 In Japan, the topsoil is hygienically maintained, the mountains are thick with forest trees, and the soil underneath is layer upon layer of humus, bedrock, gravel, clay, etc. Rainwater is naturally filtered and clean, hygienic groundwater springs up all over the country.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 But In the continent, however, there is no greenery.
In a desert of yellow sand, the topsoil is covered with only a few grasses.Even when trees grow naturally, they are quickly cut down or burned.There is no way for greenery to grow.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 The reason why there is greenery in Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, as well as in the eastern part of China where Japanese troops were stationed, is because Japanese military personnel and civilians at that time developed a tree planting project in units of billions of trees.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 In a continent full of loess, it was actually very important for the military to secure water. That's why a specialized communicable diseases control department was created.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 Since it was CDC,research on countermeasures against bacteria was naturally conducted.
Moreover, these were the world's most advanced first-class materials on epidemiology at the time.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 For this reason, all the research materials of Unit 731 were immediately seized by the US military after the WW2.
These materials were highly valuable for the US military and also for US drug manufacturers.
Therefore, the materials were treated as top secret.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 But taking advantage of the fact that it was top secret, some people began to say that Unit 731 was the devil's unit for the development of bacteriological weapons.
This was first mentioned in Seiichi Morimura's "The Devil's satiation" published in the 1970s.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 Morimura was a member of the Japan Communist Party. Although the novel was nothing but a fantasy story, and it was often pointed out that there were too many errors in the historical facts, the fiction of the novel was somehow promoted as if it were the truth.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 But CCP took advantage of this and built the "Unit 731 Memorial Hall" in China, where photos of the Jinan Incident, in which Japanese were massacred by the Chinese , were displayed as "photos of victims of human experimentation by the Japanese Army's Unit 731" .

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 Endemic diseases, cholera, and plague..The Eurasia continent was a hive of infectious diseases.
Therefore, Unit 731 naturally conducted research on these diseases and gave free vaccinations to the local people.
"This vaccination" was replaced by "human experimentation".

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 The US has also kept silent about the historical facts.
There are a number of reasons for this, such as concerns about worsening relations between the US and China, ...

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 ..or the desire to conceal the fact that the research data taken from Japan at the end of the WW2 had been the catalyst for a breakthrough for US Drug Manufacturers, but the fact remains that Japan continued to be undermined by this.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 Jonathan Teperman of Foreign Affairs magazine argued.
"The Japanese brutally exploited Korea & northern China (means Manchuria. It proves he doesn't know about the East Asia history)to gain a foothold against the imperialist powers in Europe.The symbol of brutality was Unit 731"

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 He wrote the article based on the rumor that "Unit 731 created biological and chemical weapons and conducted brutal biological experiments.
However, even now, there is no evidence to prove the rumor.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 Instead, he spread the rumor that "the human experiment data was unavailable for the humane nation like the US, so in return for obtaining the data, the US did not charge Ishii with the crimes of Unit 731.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 He also said "731 also experimented on people by placing them in vacuum tubes and exploding them".

But In the 1970s, there was a vacuuming accident on the Soviet 's Soyuz 11, but the human body did not even prolapse.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 At the same time, it was discovered that the US had conducted brutal human experiments in Guatemala before and after World War II, injecting syphilis bacteria into the eyes and brains of retarded girls, killing 83 people.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 When Obama became the US president, the US has finally apologized.
The US argument that ”a humane country like the U.S. could not conduct human experiments” was blown away.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 So at the same time that Human Experiments in Guatemara by the US was revealed ,the US had Teperman write a false history about 731.

He admits that the investigation did not find any evidence.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 As the race to study bacteriological warfare progressed during the war, the US was wary of Japan's use of bacteriological weapons until the end of the war,

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 and the US conducted a postwar investigation of the Mukden detention facility to see if there was any evidence of human experiments on Allied prisoners of war.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 At the same time, the US Naval Research Laboratory examined the actual baloon bombs recovered from Japan at the end of the war to see if they could be used for germ warfare,

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 and concluded that "since they were not equipped with germ dispersal devices, they were not intended for germ warfare for the time being.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 From around 1944 until the end of the war, the U.S. interest in Japan with regard to germ warfare focused on the development of germ weapons and the clarification of the actual activities of Unit 731, and from the end of the war until around 1947,

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 ..the focus shifted to the acquisition of research results through the interrogation of Unit 731 personnel, in other words, the theft of Japanese intellectual property.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 The US took the strongest interest in Lt. General Ishii, who commanded Unit 731. In 1946~47, there were reports and repeated interrogations of him.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 It has been said that General Ishii handed over the results of his germ warfare research to the US in exchange for his own protection and that of his subordinates, and a top-secret US military document dated June 20, 1947, contains information that supports this theory.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 "Lt. Gen. Ishii is now writing an agreement on the entire issue.The document contains his ideas on the strategic and tactical use of germ weapons.
It is expected to present the framework of Ishii's nearly 20 years of research on germ warfare and will be completed on July 15"

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 The same document also stated that "about 8,000 slides of pathological specimens taken from more than 200 germ-infected people" hidden "in the mountains of southern Japan" would be provided to the US by the end of August 1947.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 While the US was hurrying to collect information from Japan, it was also very wary of passing on information on bacteriological warfare to the Soviet , its rival in the Cold War.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 Because of the Khabarovsk trial, the US was reluctant to hand over evidence related to germ warfare, which the Soviet had requested,

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 ..while an intelligence report from April 1948, which stated that about 30 people related to Unit 731 were "engaged in a research project on germ warfare near Moscow," was also revealed.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 At last, the US and the Soviet have also developed bacteriological weapons and conducted repeated human experiments, so in order to deflect criticism of them, they fabricated the story that "Japan has developed bacteriological weapons and Unit 731 conducted human experiments"

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 The Khabarovsk Trials were like a worse version of the Tokyo Trials, with no access to defense counsel and no satisfactory food or rest in a frigid environment.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 The Soviet were in violation of the Potsdam Declaration and international law, which guaranteed that disarmed Japanese soldiers could return home.

"Unit 731 called the subject of human experimentation "Malta (log)",it first appeared in the Khabarovsk Trial.

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 The testimony at the Khabarovsk Trials was given by men in a state of extreme physical and mental weakness, so to speak, and was coerced by the Soviet. It is extremely likely that the testimony was used as a bargaining chip for the "return to Japan".

@jeff_kaye @FahySandra @astanley711 Oddly enough, if human experiments were conducted by Unit 731, one would expect to find the remains of the subjects, but to date, no such remains have been unearthed.
Despite the fact that it would have been easy to do so in the areas controlled by the Soviet after the WW2.