The site of Unit 731 is located in Pingfang District, Harbin City, China, and this site was the main base of Unit 731 during the Japanese invasion of China. Unit 731 engaged in war crimes such as human experiments, animal experiments, and biochemical research and production in the name of the Ishii Army, the Dongxiang Army, and the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department of the Kwantung Army.
The site of Unit 731 covers an area of 2480,000 square meters, divided into two parts: above ground and underground. The above-ground ruins are biochemical ** and living land developed by the Japanese army. Most of them were destroyed during the evacuation of the Japanese army, and crematoriums and gas chambers can be clearly identified. The underground is the Evidence Exhibition Hall, which records in detail the inhumane experimental methods and other evidence of Unit 731.
There are 27 key protected relics at the site of Unit 731, with an existing area of 24With 80,000 square meters, it is the largest bacterial research, experiment and manufacturing base in the history of the world. The site of Unit 731 includes the former site of the headquarters, the site of the bacteriological laboratory and the site of the special prison, the site of the underground passage, the site of the boiler room and many other parts. The site of Unit 731 is the base camp of Japanese militarism violating international conventions and using living people to carry out frostbite, bacterial infection, and poison gas experiments, and is the source of germ warfare, and an important evidence of Japan's foreign aggression and expansion, plundering resources, and trampling on sovereignty.
Unit 731's experimental methods are brutal and heinous, including but not limited to the following:
Vivisection: Unit 731 conducted vivisection experiments on prisoners, and did not even inject anesthetics during the dissection.
Frostbite experiment: In the cold of winter, Unit 731 drove people outdoors, forced them to soak their arms in buckets of ice water, and then exposed their arms to freezing in the cold wind of minus tens of degrees Celsius.
Flamethrower experiments: Unit 731 also conducted flamethrowing experiments.
Bacterial infection experiments: Unit 731 mixed typhoid germs into sugar water, forced prisoners to drink this sugar water, infected them with typhoid fever, and observed the progression of the disease.
Bacteriological warfare experiments: Unit 731 conducted a large number of bacteriological warfare experiments, including research on plague, typhoid, cholera, and endemic diseases throughout the Northeast. They also carried out blood exchange between humans and horses, human body upside down, gun penetration, including frostbite experiments, poison gas experiments, and so on.
These experiments not only violate humanity and ethics, but also cause the deaths of a large number of innocent people. This is a dark memory in the history of mankind, and we should remember history to prevent similar tragedies from happening again.
The site is now a museum that showcases the crimes of Unit 731 to the public as a reminder of history.