IIDA, Nagano Prefecture—Hideo Shimizu has been frustrated by the reluctance of a peace memorial museum here to display panels about the infamous Unit 731, where he worked during World War II.

It was the building that Shimizu would see in the museum picture in 2015. Shimizu, who was 14 years old at the time, and 34 boys of similar age made up the fourth group of minors assigned to Unit 731.

Visitors lay down China's national flags in memory of the victims who lost their lives to the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army Unit 731 on January 14, 2024, at the Museum of Evidence of ...

The museum has refused to display testimony from local Unit 731 members, including Shimizu, saying it was too lengthy, and in some cases, too graphic for children.

Unit 731 museum a grim reminder of human tests. AFP, HARBIN, China. It has been decades since Li Feng-qin’s (李鳳琴) father was cut apart by Japanese doctors at a covert base used for human experiments, ...

This now houses the Unit 731 Criminal Evidence Museum. "In fact, Unit 731 constructed extensive underground facilities for their human experiments. They did not have time to destroy these when ...

As the 18th International Museum Day arrived Friday, an "international treaty wall" was unveiled in the Unit 731 Museum in Harbin, capital of northeastern China's Heilongjiang.

According to the museum, Unit 731 produced around 300 kilograms of plague bacillus, 600 kg of anthrax bacteria, 800 to 900 kg of typhoid bacteria, and thousands of kilograms of other deadly ...

This now houses the Unit 731 Criminal Evidence Museum. "In fact, Unit 731 constructed extensive underground facilities for their human experiments. They did not have time to destroy these when ...

The education board of Iida city in Nagano Prefecture is at loggerheads with local citizens involved in a peace museum exhibit, as they grapple with calls for greater focus on "biological warfare" ...

Jin Chengmin, curator of the Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by Japanese Army Unit 731, shows an incubator for producing plague bacillus in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, ...