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...were eager to learn about events like Unit 731's activities in Manchuria, a region in northern China conquered and governed by the Japanese army from 1932 to 1945. Untold thousands of Russians, Koreans and Chinese suspected of anti-Japanese activities were brought to the ! Unit 731 base at Pinfang, near Harbin. Clinically referred to as maruta, or "logs," they were initially treated well since the experiments required healthy subjects. Eventually, however, some of the prisoners were infected with contagious diseases -- typhoid, tetanus, anthrax, syphilis -- or poisoned with mustard gas; others, stripped and tied to poles, were exposed...
Ogasawara says he did not understand the real nature of 731's work until several months after his arrival at Pinfang, when he was assigned to clean up a restricted room that contained human remains on which researchers had been experimenting. Ordered to keep silent or be court-martialed, he was put to work breeding fleas and rats, which were used to spread germs. Sometimes, he recalls, prisoners destined to die in the experiments waved at him from their cells, offering him food. "I was only a little shaven-headed kid," he explains. "They probably thought...
...will represent Harvard at the conference will be J. B. Bernardin Gr. T. S., L. S. Bryant '29, M. A. Clleek '26, Gardiner Day E. T. S., E. D. Emigh '30, Keitaro Fukudo 2 G. B., J. D. Gatsos '29, Frederick Hawkins '30, W. C. Hicks S. T. S., Pinfang Hsia 2G. B., Gerdon Huggins '29, J. H. Lane '28, A. B. Martin II '30, J. W. Martindale '28, O. R. Rice '25, Kufaro Sanaba 1 G. B., C. O. Simpson '27, F. C. Troll '30, and D. P. Tucker...
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