Reflection

Lilly Dinger
Mr. Rients
U.S History
3/1/19

Reflection 

This article is outrageous. Reading about what the Japanese did to all these people is extremely scary! I cannot believe that there was a time period that this actually happened. The torture the Japanese put people through is unbelievable. All just for some testing and experimenting and finding cures for who knows what. Units 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War of World War II. Unit 731 was basically an Asian Auschwitz with multiple different sections for multiple different areas for different types of tests. These people would do inhumanly experiments with improper materials and sedation methods. Over half the time they wouldn’t even use anesthesia. They do these test on people who were suspicioned to be spies for the U.S or just suspicious in general, along with prisoners or criminals.  

None of this sounds okay to me. To cover up what they were doing to these people, unit 731 was called Anti-Epidemic Water Supply and Purification Bureau. Just to make sure no one would find out about it.  From 1936 to 1942 between 3,000 and 12,000 men, women and children were murdered in Unit 731. The article goes into detail about the acts and methods they would do on people to study certain things is ridiculous. Such as sticking someone outside in the freezing weather and then hitting them to hear if they got frost bite. Or cutting off limbs to see how fast they bleed out, and then stitching it back on to a different part of the body. What I don’t understand is that none of these experiments really didn’t need to be done. If they had to do them, why couldn't they do them properly. It's very inhumane to be doing such disgusting acts on innocent people. Ishii, the head person of place was “god”, and everyone had to listen to him. Until 731 was a horrible place with horrible acts of vandalism to humans. After the war, and after until 731 was shut down, apparently all the scientist there working, were freed and fled back to their homeland.  Ishii died of throat cancer, and Until 731 was never to be spoken about or consequences were to happen. In the end, I believe that this has to be one of the worse camp things around.