Despite being startled awake by horrific nightmares of World War II, Hideo Shimizu remained silent about what he had ...

Hideo Shimizu has been frustrated by the reluctance of a peace memorial museum here to display panels about the infamous Unit ...

Atrocities committed by Japanese Army Unit 731, a germ warfare unit once stationed in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, have been further exposed in newly found historical documents. The 24 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese Unit 731 staff carrying a body from one of the unit's facilities. Archaeologists in China have uncovered a secret ...

Photo taken on April 18, 2014 shows the site of the Unit 731 headquarter in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Unit 731 was a Harbin-based biological and chemical warfare ...

Japan had long denied it engaged in germ warfare in China during World War II. But the situation took a shift in August 2002 when 180 Chinese victims sought compensation from the Japanese government.

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 ...

TOKYO - The names of 3,607 members of the Imperial Japanese Army's clandestine Unit 731, known for conducting heinous live germ and chemical warfare experiments on thousands of Chinese victims, have ...

TOKYO (AP) — Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy “The Devil’s Gluttony” exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World ...

HARBIN, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Atrocities committed by Japanese Army Unit 731, a germ warfare unit once stationed in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, have been further exposed in newly found ...