to power is from, you know, going into direct conflict in your brain. so, but i hope that this experience will serve as a, as a warning to other international players. anyway, we have to leave it there. thank you very much for your insights today. thank you. and thank you for watching. call to sit down with me for a

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ah, subarus is one of the most beautiful cities and rushes found the reast. ah, it sits on the river that runs on the russia, china buena and was for many years the far eastern capital. ah, there is no shortage of historical sites here. the officers club is one of them. this is where in december 19, 49 and 12 members of japan's. quinton army stood trial. so that was the only time wall criminals have ever been

tried for creating a biological weapon and testing it on mm. with no one much son a no not what go more serious than what. ready showing up and i've got a letter dated and elated to my son and you don't know what else but it nice little dinner and you did in the remorse shown by one member of japan's top secret unit 731. he and his colleagues killed thousands of victims, well developing biological weapons. he's the guy who had been in unit

731 soldier and his young man and killed people. paul johnson, an american director, has studied unit 731 documents at length, and knows its history well. unit 731 was a unique organization in the history of the world. what they were trying to do was to simply do nothing short than build the most powerful and most deadly biological weapons program that the world had ever. now. japan had a longstanding interest in biological weapons, emperor here a heater, who had a degree in the ring biology. believe that biological weapons would help japan conquer the world. as a descendant of the sun goddess a matter. also, he saw it as his calling in the 19 thirty's,

the concept of japan's exceptional role in the world, permeated the country society. oh, sorted out. so june gets the sunni hummadi condi igloo, sucking yawn all natural medina o. japanese journalist, shoji condo, the author of evidence of unit 731 crimes. a book that caused quite a stir is one of the few people who tries to give an impartial account of factors that brought japan to war. tiny to even look up to your schedule for a june caitlin cooke got it says so to so you wish so than what they glint irish but victor, so carrying us get along for a gun now on that chism on all want on you saw it fixed on in

the early 19 thirties and the japanese military carefully studied a report by microbiologist, cheryl caching, biological weapons affect the human body silent, causing a slow but painful death. there is no need to manufacture missiles. instead, you can infect clothing, food, or water, food, his bus bacteria from aircraft. they will proliferate. and in fact, humans with general easy, wasn't just a biologist, but also a military man with the rank of colonel. he was very smart, intelligent table, person of high status in japan. he was a medical doctor who was also a pilot and a military commander. he had all of these great talents and skills that sadly, instead of being used for a good purpose, he took his great prodigious skills and took it in the opposite direction to the dark side. as a force for evil with japan's general stuff,

allocated enormous resources to help the biologist establish a secret facility to develop biological weapons. china's manchuria region occupied by japan in 1932 cents turned into the puppet state of mind to co became the testing ground. manchuria is very handy because of its location close to the u. s. s. on it also has plenty of test subjects, test subject. you mean people brought to the unit, the test? exactly. those people were meant to die. that's right. from tribunal questions to quiz. she mc yoshi, a medical service major general mm mm. in 1968, several secret facilities were established in the hills of manchuria. unit 100 in

san jang worked on lifestyle contamination. unit 516 it's. it's a gum manufactured, chemical weapons. and unit 731 near been developed biological weapons and tested them on civilians. in pen fung village, they burned down around 300 local dwellings to clear space to build unit 731. the facility was self sufficient and inaccessible. that when the batteries a prison crematorium stadium, a shinto shrine, an airfield, a dedicated aircraft group and a bow station, the facilities commanding officer was also the projects audiologist colonel shiro. you see, we're here today but it said you're, she'll, she'll go afo. komatsu is more than 90 years old and can't sit down for very long.

but at the dinner, k killed one you suddenly would have to rush up korean . as i drew diagnose, you will get worse now on a memorial museum, who is one of the saddest museums in the world who says i owe sitting with a thick and conquest factory woman, i sure would have recount, went out to eat. sunday cwa can congratulate agony with andy, sure, and continued, and then pasha mincie could alisha gong. john the base you, you was actually yet, or

you can look young some good. the youth of our life, cocoa did such a guy, stella, none of sites you but i knew dick in dave bush did scull dominey to go good day garcia. didn't know what other mm. yukiko a mommy. as japanese and lived near unit 731. when she was just 13 mm hm. she often visits china now organizing exhibitions and conferences to expose the crimes perpetrated by unit 731. cleo denver sets the guys that the kidney stone corner dis, could oh, at bastrop given the me there meet them, us cut it. oh, i don't know. my day i will. yeah. my mom. i got the but that's your song on olga no. when he got there mm. the camp has

a gruesome reputation among the locals. ah, ah, exactly what went on behind the tool since they'll never know. but they all show that no one ever came out alive. after you infected the person, would he get treatment? yes. what happened to him next? he'd be used for further experiment. until he died. yes. none of the prisoners came out alive. from tribunal questions to medical service major general. how was she mac yoshi? ah. thousands of people became test subjects. they were from various nationalities. around 60 percent,

which i knees around 30 percent russian and a few koreans and mongolians. they were referred to as my router, which means logs in japanese into i are under my slender stagger them all by day at all market that the, you know, are you on more more general market that is met, new them all more, knock up on there and i got the live marcell, she miss it was an intern at the unit. like other teenagers he was sent there to work and study material tied up with the with her mother and all up buddy b. oh, can you go? i thought, coward that. oh boy, those little today. oh, that is or oh, what on this the wow. see my a new on it on all site is an all on all simone. good student. i don't the year you know a lot and we'll put them out there. think about it at the one she said with so

that all most law. oh oh because it's a couple of mothers. sho, get pushed up. so no one is, you know, not like a, not quite the la jolla, but she knew i'm showing you this to people there even lower than livestock breached shadow issue. the audiologist and mastermind behind everything that happened in the death cab with chinese population of harby were the equivalent of lab rats. these weren't human beings who had rights to life, who had rights to freedom from porter in sickness and disease. these were people who he could carry out tests to further his goals, which was to create the world's greatest biological weapons program

in just subjects were injected with cholera. typhoid anthrax, bubonic plague, and syphilis. the progression of their disease was studied carefully. victims were later dissected, well, still alive with i was just, i want to with this with you, i guess with you i'm with

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ah, in promotional so no cable, no cable like stuff. this guy told us that you needed to know who you need to. doctors monitor the dissections waiting for samples. some needed a brain. oh, out, others deliver me

that how to bring a deadly said the virus capable of destroying a human body in no time said shadow, easy enough fish dead to georgia country stat cables with issues there the look on those little or no no, no, no, no, i really just real pill. one thing that i can do, you know, it still knows i knew guy on yoga chi voicemail a. it's hard to know how many were killed by unit 731 alone estimates. very some say 3 to 5000 people. others put the figure at 10000 to something. yeah, well then yeah,

now monday a couple of them will not linear ah, most the army, general staff and emperor here a hutto will well aware of the units, goals and methodology. unit 731 was established in 1936 by the secret order of emperor. here he thought i saw the order with my own eyes when i served his hand of unit 73 one's general department tribunal transcript, major general campbell. she marquee, or she is interrogation. all good, all coco mean, does she go?

she say, says so she's a little more short than all outdoor use. and so she's always stuck on to your course could, should i know momma here? why should we shall talk to you a raised ok. like, you know we did the own. jan oak was so shinji talking to say, so laws near home won't dial georgine even law. you cannot short then? no, no, no, no, no i starting or hate i. e bay, or walkerson in 10. no, no clock on nation. you walk us without they can. is there a little pause short then? no, no, made it a general yes to g. a camera decreed the north sancho suck us in the 3 oles policy

which said, kill all, learn all loot. ah. mass killings took place all over the japanese occupied territories with in just 6 weeks. more than 300000 people were tortured and killed in nun king. japanese soldiers believed that they represented an exceptional nation and had a license to do anything local took on in those who though your door i got i was just going for picking up all of our toils on. i thought that means ok sense. so to know what to like,

so i got out of my, of the english nation when it comes to colonization, it has accomplished the impossible, said adult hitler with many historians claim that famine was a common event on the british rule in india. and that millions died of starvation. ah, also that in the mid 19th century, british business sold huge quantities of opium in china, making considerable profit from the drug trade. ah, it also said that in congo half of the popular and died during belgium's colonization, ah, mel jerry hans have alleged that a chain of gruesome murders took place while france governed the country could ever do what she thought though the rocky, this still curse. very good, dora. so nanny, dudgin, i'll go to the scott if you are, sorry. yeah,

i disco. chorus theory. most agony. another do you think is joanie, you must, you know, that you and i discussed with scott bennett is a leading counter terrorism expert. and a former u. s. army analyst, you now investigates, crimes against humanity. ah, the american indians were seen as a scourge as a social pariah that needed to be expunged, expelled, and exterminated from much of on the eastern seaboard poisoning blankets with smallpox. with this virus that caused the eruption of sores and death upon the american indians.

blankets were distributed to indians and military installations under the guise of helping them ah one out of the thousands that unit 731 killed only 8 names have been preserved in history. 6 chinese and 2 russians. a red army soldiers are called dmca anchor, and maria ivan, over with her 4 year old daughter when women and girls became too we can no longer fit for further experiments, they will put into a special glass walled gas chamber. the doctors took meticulous notes. the daughter suffocated after 3 minutes, the mother of to 5 to

simply abducted from a st. carmen with many russians, lived there because china's eastern railway had been built by russian engineers in 1898. ah many stay to avoid the revolution and civil war. i the cities gendarmerie based at the railway station constantly received a new orders. they wanted men, women, or children of a particular age, heightened as necessity. when the unit needed new subjects, the japanese bellies snatched entire families from the streets.

part of my job was escorting inmates from hobbin to unit 7. 31, they were referred to as logs and used for experiments tribunal transcript sergeant major characters who sat auto. john damari special brown chief ah. how about us keeping us as bullet creeping? nor the something of a good deal of the stuff is not new bye form of riley seems somebody is a born in the gym. you mean him? yes. so i show you what power where the more now when it's a more dim, conquer go editing. i just got a little skewed oil i served shows us bank but up says something. not more should your was. let's banyan though my should set up to provide you as a civilian puts us, it's of no, i don't politic authority order. it should. ling, i'm of the gift solution for durable se melissa registers.

ah, women and children played a special role in unit $73.00 one's activities women were rated. and once they were pregnant, infected with us gonorrhea and other diseases. oh, they within cut open. so that was such as could extract the fetus to observe any changes. i will numbers for dinner. i've got going on. no, he didn't. the gosh, more close enough. i draw no neglect. got rid of a little rail. but future war with the soviet union might have been fought and extremely cold weather. that's why they needed to know how to treat frostbite. to find out they drove inmates out into the cold,

doused their limbs with water, and kept them outside until severe frostbite set in. with the next frost might dr. his santa yoshi mora, conducted experiments on women and children. he later said, detailed reports illustrated with drawings and photographs. martha, she on all hill wants me to get their select or their mothers should not go can i got caught the law law hill home on the way on the hill home. so that before we thought that a live, now they're going my work with on there. so that automotive are some victims were literally mummified alive. they were put into an extremely hot room with no water and kept there until they were completely designated. the bodies were weighed before and after 78 percent of the human body as water as that experiment proved

leader. so no, no, no, no. castillo, though they get mad. gazette about the long run of shannon casa. mean they're not getting good, luna? thunder? although the all sent over the move on the scene digital enough. mm hm. some experiments were conducted out of mere curiosity inmates, had various body organs removed. lim switched. also monkey blood injected all their sensitivity to x rays and electricity tested. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation,

let it be an arms race who is on offensive, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk with my new publisher a year ago. one of them you have a question given him with

awe. unit 731. did everything from exploding bombs laced with anthrax. next to prisoners who were tied to steaks in a feel with we have evidence that they gave disease infected chocolates to children. i plead guilty to having exercised to direct.