Unit 731 testimony

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Part 1: Historical overview

1. Background of Japanese biological warfare

A Proud medical tradition

Ishii Shiro

Manchuria

The Stage is set

2. A New type of warfare

The Fortress/bacteria factory

End of the fortress

Pingfang

Satelite facilities

Ties to the civilian sector

Ishii's battlefield debut

3. Creating pathology

Rodents and insects

Four areas of experimentation

4. End and aftermath

Attempted biological warfare against the Americans

Covering the traces

American occupation

Superpower jockeying

5. Unit 731 in modern times

The Teikoku bank incident

Japanese biological warfare data in the Korean war

Shinjuku shock

The Unit leaders in peacetime

Postwar careers: plum positions

Part 2: Testimonies

Introduction

Researcher attached to Unit 1644 (anonymous)

Virologist attached to Unit 731 (anonymous)

Lecture, "Unit 731 and comfort women" (Nishino Rumiko)

Youth corps member (anonymous)

Hygiene specialist (Wano Takeo)

Hygiene specialist (anonymous)

Kenpeitai member (Iwasaki Ken'ichi)

Three youth corps members (anonymous)

Nurse attached to Unit 731 (Akama Masako)

Kenpeitai officer (Naganuma Setsuji)

Army doctor (Yuasa Ken)

Civilian employee of Unit 731 in Tokyo (Ishibashi Naokata)

Youth Corps member attached to Unit 731 (Ogasawara Akira)

Professor emeritus at Osaka University (Nakagawa Yonezo)

Member of the hygiene corps (Tomioka Heihachiro)

Soldier stationed at Pingfang (Shinohara Tsuruo)

Soldier attached to Unit 731 (Ohara Takeyoshi)

Nurse attached to Unit 731 (Sakumoto Shizui)

Intelligence officer (Ogura Yoshikuma)

Army major and pharmacist attached to Unit 731 (anonymous)

Army major and technician attached to Unit 516 (anonymous)

Ishii Shiro's driver (Koshi Sadao)

Pharmacist attached to the laboratory at Dalian (Maguro Masahiko)

Captain, Japanese imperial army (Kojima Takeo)

Select bibliography

Photographs on pages 128-136.