The Unspeakable Things That Happened In Unit 731
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2023
- Japan has a unique history. From the early 17th century until the mid-19th century, the island-nation was isolated from the world by order of the ruling Shoguns, the military-leaders who ruled in the name of the emperor. Foreigners were only allowed on one small island near Nagasaki, and no Japanese at all were allowed to leave - ever.
This all changed in 1853-54, when American naval officer Matthew C. Perry forcibly opened Japan to international trade. What the naval officers and Marines in Perry's fleet saw when they came ashore in Japan shocked them - Japan had been suspended in time since the early 1600s. Its buildings, clothing, and especially weapons, were 200 years behind America and the Western world.
At the same time, China was becoming almost a vassal state of European countries. Sections of the country were under virtual foreign rule, and the Chinese had been forced to sign a series of what historians call “The Unequal Treaties.” Foreigners enjoyed favorable trade conditions which allowed them to profit greatly while many Chinese suffered. Additionally, in those parts of China, known as “concessions”, under European control or influence, European citizens and soldiers, and later, Americans, were subject to their own law - not that of China. This included crimes committed against Chinese. For all of these reasons and more, the Japanese were determined not to let that happen to their own country.
Playing one nation against another and occasionally using the threat of violent uprisings against the Western Powers who came to trade in Japan, while at the same time understanding the limits of their own power and compromising with the West when necessary, the Japanese set themselves two main goals: to modernize their country as quickly as possible, and to prevent the Western countries from doing to Japan what they were doing in China.
The Japanese exploited the Chinese under their control economically. China also became one vast laboratory. Its people were subject to not only modern warfare, but were subjects for the Japanese military to learn about chemical and biological weapons. The war itself cost China millions of people, but in the military and among civilians. The estimates of Chinese losses from 1936-45 range from ten to twenty million people.
Doing his best to increase that total was a monster named Shiro Ishii. Ishii, like Mengele at Auschwitz, was a doctor. He was born in 1892 into an established middle-class family and became a doctor. In 1921, he joined the army as a surgeon. Ishii was fascinated by the process of infection, and after a trip to the battlefields of WWI Europe, became interested in the possibilities of chemical and biological weapons.
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Can I ask, if possible, could you do a work on a war that at least in Europe we do not learn at school, about when the British empire divided the world with the Dutch and actually broke out a war that many state should be considered world war 1.
I do not know much about it and would love a video on it from you since you seem to find good sources!
Cheers from Portugal!
Project MK Ultra
Exposed
And ALREADY Disposed
By the way, most of those experiments' data proved to be not very useful for medical and scientific work, so it was mostly worthless. Yet they got immunity. It was also due to the US not wanting to antagonize Japan too much during their occupation to win the favor of the public. That's why Hirohito also didn't get prosecuted despite being basically the Hitler of Japan.
@@johncarter1288 this is why we should boycott chinese products
What about the atrocities comitted by the brits on India
Unlike Germany, Japan is exceptional at denying its own history.
They view themselves as victims of the war, rather than criminals.
😢
They view the dropping of the nukes as an overreaction to the sinking of a few boats rather than the (quite literal) fury of God being unleashed for their trashing of His creation.
100%!
Japan deny history because they don't want to pay the reparations.
They don't have to pay reparations because the US is behind them.
Most Japanese seriously don't know any of these atrocities.
What is crazy is that the information is not suppressed. They are just not taught in school.
No one bothers to find out.
It's like "A Brave New World", they are distracted by endless entertainment. They don't want to think too deeply.
My granny was born in northern China in 1915 (she died several years ago). People of her generation hate the Japanese. The stories they told us, the bombings of rural villages, the mass murder of innocent civilians, the rape of young girls, pregnant women, women of all ages, and the forced rape between parent and child. Soldiers bayonet babies and beheaded people as sport. What's shocking is how much the Japanese soldiers enjoyed killing and torture against defenseless people. Not an ounce of compassion. My granny saw these things with her own eyes. I never doubted her, she had no reason to lie to me. Her generation is gone now, but I hope truth never dies. . Japan can NEVER run away from the truth.
日本人从来没有承认也没有为自己的罪行给道歉，相反总是以战争的受害者自居。
Revenge when?
@@kiritokun2424we are talking about real life countries and real conflicts, not some fantasy series, revenge is not plausible if we don’t want to start a new Great War. Even then, punishing the new generations(specially citizens) is just dumb and equally unfair
Interestingly enough, my grandparents hated the Koreans more than the japanese as they were the ones they viewed committing atrocities during the war (despite Japan controlling Korea at the time). It's easier to hate the enemy you see with your own eyes than the ones you hear on news
Past is the past I mean china was fed opium by British and people care even less
I am a Japanese person and I NEVER KNEW THIS. I genuinely thank you for informing me of the unthinkably horrifying atrocities that Japan has committed. I am absolutely appalled by this and I sincerely apologise to anyone affected in behalf of my country. History must not repeat itself.
Thank you so much. I am Chinese and this really means a lot. Im curious if since you didnt know this, does that mean this doesnt get taught in history lessons in school?
日本的教育就是导致大量的日本人就像评论一样，对二战期间日本的屠杀一无所知。每一个中国人的爷爷辈，都是日本军刀下的幸存者。日本至今还在靖国神社里摆放着战犯的灵位。日本长期给自己国民以及世界灌输二战受害者、原子弹受害者的形象。但没有任何一个中国人会同情。因为日本从没有为战争恶行道歉。
Yeak F. k ur Japan
As a Chinese,thank you so much
NUCLEAR POLLUTING NATION DISHONEST LIARS
As a korean, my grandparents were effected by the Imperial Japanese military. Because of them, my grandma lost both of her parents, and because of them, my grandpas brother was killed and his mother was raped. Im a first gen Korean American, but this still effects my family. It wasnt just China, it was Korea, Filippines, and many more. And the fact that Japan never apologized with remorse and never acknowledged this happened angers me.
me too. history are real happened facts and cant be covered . we can see what Germany does and what Japan does.
As a Chinese, we understand the national characteristics of Japan better than anyone else. Japan has always wanted to get away from the island where it lives, and for thousands of years, it has tried every means to invade China and enter the mainland, and the Korean Peninsula is the springboard for it to enter the mainland, from the Battle of Baijiangkou in the Tang Dynasty of China, to the three major campaigns in the Ming Dynasty, to the Yunyang Incident on the Korean Peninsula on the eve of the final Sino-Japanese War. It's all an act of undying Japanese aggression! In the Tang and Ming dynasties, China was strong and drove Japan back from the Korean Peninsula, but in the Qing Dynasty, we failed and failed to stop Japan's ambition, so that in the subsequent fiasco, not only our Taiwan was forcibly occupied by Japan for 50 years, but almost all of Asia except China was occupied by Japan and turned into colonies. Sworn not to surrender, at the cost of over 35 million casualties to resist the Japanese! During the entire period of Japanese aggression, Korean women and Chinese women were forced to become comfort women by Japan, and the price was clearly 3 yuan for Korean women, 2 yuan for Chinese women, and 1 yuan for Southeast Asian women. In Nanjing, China, there is still a site, that is, the place where the comfort women were held, and the furnishings and items inside are still retained. After seeing it, it is difficult to let go. This is a state crime and cannot be forgiven!
North Korea
people usually address china for the victims of this because they were the main targets and were perpetrated even decades before WW2 since alot of the countries around japan were weak, they also took russian prisoners and did the same, even turning against one of their own people, and turning against the whole of their population and the world by hiding these experiments.
所以，中国和韩国真的应该搞好关系，我们的历史总体上关系还是不错的，我们的仇人是日本
Yet Japan even to this day fails to acknowledge these crimes.
japan better paid in full or victim countries will revenge in full as n when they can
A little bomb reformed their way of thinking, now it's China that needs reformed, funny how the world works.
They will never acknowledge it on they own free will
Too bad the Korean men were too cowardly and weak to protect their women. This is what happens when you have punk emasculated men.
The Japanese, or the government, actually does acknowledge these crimes (Nanking, Unit 731, etc), they just claim that the numbers were inflated by Western authorities.
What’s even scarier about Unit 731 is that we probably will never know the exact amount of victims that went in there, since so many of the records were expunged at the end of the war.
What is even more concerning is that this is going on in China today.
@@paulmerritt2484 tbh yeah and it's being done by its own government officials. But it's likely not to that extreme.
@@paulmerritt2484 Have you ever been to China? Decades ago, US have good relations with China, both happy,
When China is developing into higher-end industry, which cuts into US cake.
All your media is on the rhetoric China bad and China evil.
Can't you think by yourself?
Follow the money?
@@iamnotyou346 Ummm...The entire world not extreme enough for ya ? And it has been going for over a century.
@@jad43701 Do you think the government is experimenting on people in these ways and torturing and killing people for fun? I mean sure, they probably do torture their prisoners and kill them, especially the ones, who talked bad about the government and exposed what they did, but not like THAT and taking in their kids and tearing them into pieces by dogs while the parent watches them or cutting them open while they're alive smh. If this happened, it's likely not a organized government event but individuals doing this. The time is different. If any country's government is still like that it's most likely NK.
I’m a Japanese. Many Japanese people ignore it even today. The sentence of unit 731 removed from the history textbook. I hope that Japanese Government make an official apology and more people learn about this tragedy.
Well as Korean, I appreciate for your more open minded ways. We should all stop focus on the past, but focus on the futures. I'm aware what your Japanese people and Soldiers had done but I won't cloud in a past, after all that's a consequence of wars. So let us think of more for peace.
As a Chinese, to be honest, we don’t really want to embrace hatred, but to be honest, we cannot forgive the Japanese government’s refusal to acknowledge history, enshrine war criminals in the Yasukuni Shrine and visit it every year.
@@user-vc9td2bk5g as a Chinese, agree +100000000000…….
@@user-vc9td2bk5gwe will never forget this history, and we cannot forgive Japanese on behalf of millions of martyrs！
Thank you. We appreciate it!
I am Chinese. Since childhood, Chinese people have been well aware of the war crimes committed by Nazi Germany. However, perhaps people in Western countries are not very familiar with the atrocities committed by Japan against China during World War II. I am very grateful to you for allowing more non-English speaking countries to understand this history. All inhumane atrocities committed by humanity should be remembered. Thank you!
Americans know about it, because we fought against the Japanese after they bombed Pearl Harbor. My great-uncle was captured by the Japanese. They forced him to dig his own grave, before they shot him in the back of his head. My grandmother never forgave the Japanese for what happened to her brother. She even hated Pokémon because it was Japanese.
My respect to you and your grand-uncle. I'm from Sichuan province in the Southwest of China. It was far from the fronts, but millions of young people left hometown to fight against Japanese, and few of them returned.@@definitelynotanAIchatbot
If any Japanese people see this, please know that this isn’t about attacking on good nation of Japan. It is about making sure this part of history doesn’t repeat. The only way to do it that is acknowledge it and keep it in the memory. Only then we, as humanity, won’t have to face this kind crimes against humanity.
The truth sets us free. Just like the holocaust we must acknowledge the atrocities of 731 and other war crimes by Japan against the Chinese, Koreans & Filipinos in order for real meaningful healing to occur.
I you take any kind of criticism as an attack. Then everybody is your enemy even yourself. I‘m not a nationalist, so I would not try to argue to defend the whatever nation means. please do not call a nation good or bad it‘s too simple. No nation is only good or bad, hatever that means. I know you‘re trying to mediate, but please do not call a nation good, because it has all kinds of people in it and some of them should not be protected. I‘m saying this having some German roots, who read several books about concentration camps.
thats right
the sad truth is that if you dare to say this publicly in japan you would be quickly targetted, harassed or even threatened by japanese for insulting imperial japanese soldiers--their "heroic souls".
Someone has to pay
I’m a US citizen, born and raised. In my highschool, my history teacher wasn’t afraid to talk about Japan’s crimes during WWII outside of just pearl harbor. He talked about the atrocities they committed on other asian countries such as Korea, China, Filippines, and so many more. And how they haven’t apologized or even acknowledged that these tragedies happened and were caused by them. It disturbed me to no end. And to my shock, not many people in my country know of this as well. This should definitely be spoken about more, this kind of history needs to be known.
What about the crimes which the US committed by Killing innocent civilions of Japan? Remember the bombing of Those two cities..
Dont forget History is written by the winning Side.... US is Just a hypocrite nation
I guess he didn't teach you too about the My Lai Masscre, The massacre of 3 million North Koreans, 2 million Vietnamese etc etc...
@@Steveinthailand Related to the topic?
We're talking about Japanese war crimes, not American war crimes.
Whataboutism is not an excuse to justify war crimes.
Another fact, 2 million Vietnamese perished due to an artificial famine caused by the Japanese in 1945. We called it "Nạn đói Ất Dậu" (Vietnamese famine of 1945). But I guess you don't care. You care more about the so-called "massacre" of 2 million Vietnamese in the Vietnam War, which none of Vietnamese history school books from grade 5 to grade 12 called the TOTAL civilian war casualties as "massacre".
We know My Lai is a massacre, but no one in Vietnam called 2 million war casualties as "massacre". 2 million people are from BOTH sides of the war, suffering atrocities from both combatant factions
The same can be said to the number of 3 million in the Korean War, these are civilian casualties from BOTH sides, both DPRK and South Korea, and both factions committed war crimes against civilians.
I feel you.. its so sad, knowing japan nowadays, they had become one of the kindest humans by being polite and kind..
It pains me to realize that all it takes is to have horrible and an evil leader to draw out evil for its people
... I remember like when I was still in HS that supposedly a japanese rep or ambassador came to apologize on behalf of the past particularly to the old generation like grandma's and grandpa's that survived and to their relatives...
I'm a not so surprising turn out no one really gave a single ounce of forgiveness... I'm not sure if anyone became violent after hearing that but from our neighborhood it's more like no one wants to deal with it anymore and don't want the remaining generation to keep on having a grudge right after all the years that came when peace has finally been won somehow~
My father and mother lived on the end of the war but fortunately were not subjected to anything very cruel... But I am aware of the history of their cruelty on other parts of the country and they are more likely to have some animosity in them instead~
And right on college I discovered that the japanese people I met before did not know of that history either or couldn't believe it... Which leads me believe they weren't taught about it... And I already figured out why as well~
Unit 731 actually did countless sadistic experiments even the vilest fictional supervillain barely dreams of...and some people still try to downplay these atrocities. If this was the plot of a horror movie, it wouldn't be out of place. But because it touches on politics and the egos of powerful people, it remains a gaping wound instead of an actual compensation or even just an acknowledgement.
Unit 731 makes the plot of the Human Centipede like a children's story.
China denounces 731 as horrific, but now China is putting Uyghurs in concentration camps. They continue to deny this. Despite the fact that Nanjing existed.
Japan has already apologized in the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Friendship. Furthermore, China has waived its right to claim compensation.
@@wadswwwwasdw Where is your so called apology?The following is the full text of the Sino-Japanese Friendship Treaty.
Article 1
The contracting parties shall develop lasting peaceful and friendly relations between the two countries on the basis of the principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.
In accordance with the above principles and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the contracting parties confirm that in their mutual relations, they will resolve all disputes by peaceful means without resorting to force or the threat of force.
Article 2 The Contracting Parties state that neither party should seek hegemony in the Asia and Pacific region or any other region, and oppose any other country or group of countries' efforts to establish such hegemony.
Article 3 The Contracting Parties shall, in the spirit of good neighborliness and friendship, and in accordance with the principles of equality, mutual benefit and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, strive to further develop economic and cultural relations between the two countries and promote exchanges between the two peoples.
Article 4 This Treaty shall not affect the position of the Contracting Parties in their relations with third countries.
educate urself
it chills me to the bone to know how people can be so unaffected by the pain of other. how a human being can have absolutely zero empathy,how cruel we can get. it's terryfing
Psychopaths, empathy is what makes us humans. The less you have the closer you are to an animal.
China denounces 731 as horrific, but now China is putting Uyghurs in concentration camps. They continue to deny this. Despite the fact that Nanjing existed.
@@davebuelvas898to the contrary, the more intelligent you are the more sadistic. A tiger doesn't kill for fun but to survive, an ocra regularly kills for fun
I am an immigrant from Nanking China to Canada, when I first came here at 14 it really shocked me that literally nobody knows the war crimes committed by Japan during WWII, and in history class the rape of Nanking is literally one single page in world history. Thank you for spreading awareness. Many nantionalistic and facistic ideology is on the rise once more in many countries, and people need to learn the history of what that leads to.
Nanking massacre was fake!
How old are you?
Same here dude, It was just that my curiosity in history took me to th Wikipedia page and believe me I was shocked beyond belief about those sadistic and awfully brutal crimes.
They should start teaching History as it is, enough of hiding atrocities.
To be fair, assuming this is a world history class then a full page, or even a bit less, on the topic should be evidence that the weight of the topic is not taken lightly. If anything I’m surprised that in the public education system of today it’s even mentioned at all. Your point still stands of course, we are a flawed species and are nigh certainly doomed to repeat our past, at least at this rate.
I only really learned about how atrocious it was when i got to college in which i had an amazing prof who cared abt each side of the story being remembered. In any other class, it was briefly touched on and made it seem like it was just a small troop doing awful things to a small town and not how terrifying and atrocious it was. I know there have to be more teachers like my professor in high school but theyre just too scared bc parents will throw fits. I wish we properly learned abt these things in high school. But i know so many parents would throw hissy fits. Its horrible
Forgetting history is a betrayal to those hundreds of thousands of souls lost brutally. Yes, Japanese people also suffered in WWII. But when they mourn their losses and glorify their suffers, they never say why it happened to them. One day, I hope one day, Japan will be held accountable for the horrible war crimes towards millions of Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Malaysians, Indonesians and more.
@@markmike7933 because they became america's little puppy
@@markmike7933 they also changed their image from their war crime past and also deny that any war crimes happened.
They never will, nor will the US Criminals demand that they do so. During the illegal Vietnam War, the US murdered 3.5 Million Assians, 58 Thousand US Soldiers and wounded 1.8 Million people. Read up on the Savage Weapon known as "Napalm" does to humans upon contact with their bodies
@@jameswatters9592 Is it fun to defame and insult Japanese people like that? Who do you think you are? Anyway, Japan is not little, but she has the third largest economy in the world. If Japan is a vassal state of the United States as you insist, the world history shows that a suzerain state always imposes her language and religion. So Japanese people are supposed to speak English and be Christians. But do the majority of Japanese speak English and believe God in Judeo-Christian terms? Don`t twist the fact around to satisfy your malicious desire.
@@somkeshav4143 Your opinion is not true. But even if you`re correct. victor countries of WWII such as the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union are taking the same manners toward their own war crimes just like A-bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden fire bombing, the Great Tokyo Air Raid and Katyn Forest Massacre.
As a indian here japan did attack us , the imphal and kohima war, in the Northeast india, it was brutal, they even ate the indian soldiers, cannibalism was pretty common. I hope japan formally apologize to all countries for these brutal atrocities committed by them, my respect to china and korea 🌷and other fellow nations.
lol korean are not victim
theyre also warcrimer and japans supporter
yeah it is true japanese really did commit lots of crimes and always portrays themselves as victims of wars
Both my chinese grandparents immensely hate Japanese because of the atrocities they did to the Chinese people.
Whenever there is a tsunami or an earthquake happening in Japan, she says that they deserved it.
I told her that it’s a natural disaster, and that she shouldn’t be « happy » for the misery of others (and she is the most compassionate and empathetic person I know).
I never really knew what kind of things they did, until I started watching the Netflix drama « Gyeongseong creature » and heard that it is inspired by the unit 731. This is beyond horrible, and I now finally know why my grand parents feels so much pain and hate towards the Japanese.
When I asked why back then, they never managed to explain to me the atrocities, I can sense that it was too painful for them to talk about it…
Although, it’s not the same Japanese and not all Japanese are bad, and although they shouldn’t wish bad karma on someone or a country, I now understand where they are coming from, and I understand why it matters so much to them that Japan recognizes this part of history.
Them not acknowledging it, means that they don’t value nor respect the country where they have taken all these lives.
You can just check how Japanese government and media is painting China and Chinese at current times, then you’ll know why there’ll be no peace and It’s beyond forgiveness.
Yeah. all those people are long dead and even on those times those monsters were fortunately a minority.
@@eduardopcr5940你认识的是错误的。当时日本绝大多数的国民是支持这一场侵略战争的。南京大屠杀的杀人比赛中的获胜者，甚至登上了报纸，得到了日本人民的喜欢。直到今天他们的神社里依然供奉着战犯的牌位，并且为他们祈福。
你应该更深入地了解这段历史，为什么中国恨全体日本人，因为日本走的是军国主义体制，每一个人从上小学起就接受军国主义洗脑，不管男女老少每天的劳动一切都与战争有关，没有一个人是无辜的。
Japan don't have to acknowledge this, they don't care as they should.
My father (a Japanese national) told me about Unit 731's atrocities and warcrimes. He said that the subject of WWII in general is still raw for many Japanese, but that still doesn't excuse their lack of referring to the treatment of occupied country's people (especially China, Korea, Malaysia and the Phillipines). The Japanese government is yet to properly confirm Unit 731's existence, let alone its role in WWII. There may perhaps be some influence from countries such as the US, which employed scientists from the unit after the end of the war. These scientists had "valuable" experience in fields such as bio-weapon creation and effects, thus the US deemed it necessary to give them a role in the coming arms-race with the USSR. No members of Unit 731 were convicted of war crimes, or in fact, legally accused of any.
Thank you for spreading awareness about this topic, as it has gone unmentioned both in and outside Japan. The experimentation, killing and genocide of civilians is never excusable.
Malaysia is fine. we're well educated what they have done but they the japanese also act accordingly towards WW2 tragedy here. they didn't hide anything and even pay yearly tributes to our national memorial. sometimes it's their government people, sometimes even their royalty that came. never heard such issue here. only heard it from koreans and chinese. however unit 731 is unrelated to Malaysia tho. so we suffered less compared to them
Another one is Indonesia
@@faristont4561 Time sekolah dulu. Pernah dengar kisah perempuan Melayu mengandung kena rogol oleh askar jepun. Dah dirogol dibelah perut pula robek keluar bayi di campak ke perigi. Nenek pun pernah cerita time tu org cina selalu pass anak perempuan bagi kt org Melayu buat jadi anak angkat sbb takut jdi buruan askar Jepun. Pastu time askar jepun masuk kg. Perempuan semua sapu arang kt muka nak bagi nampak hodoh supaya tak kena rogol
@@massalleh5255 yeah Indonesia suffered from Japanese occupation too. Although not as bad as China and Korea. However, from our elders we heard that the 3 years of their occupation, they done much worse damage compared to the two hundred years or so of the Dutch's. I believe the majority of the damage here is forced labour.
@@CheztaAhmad Not as bad as even Philippines. Read about the massacre of Manila
Those poor, poor victims. I can't imagine the pain and horror and helplessness they must've felt, only to be almost forgotten now. Thank you for making this video.
i bet this caused hell to actually start existing purely for those perpetrators lmao
@@cawsomeaolin There is no "hell", "God", "Satan" etc. Sorry to burst your bubble. These people will not "pay" for their "crimes".
@@godnyx117 WUBBALUBBA DUB DUB GOD ISNT REAL GOD ISNT REAL!! 🤓
@@godnyx117 why do you use air quotes around crimes?? The people of Japan partially paid for their disgusting acts when they had their shadows cooked into the walls after they were incinerated.
@@TheMostCuriousGeorge Nah, they did NOT! There is no way that one simply "pays" for that amount of war crimes and atrocities. Pain doesn't have a scale where is it just simple numbers why can attach.
A "sorry" or money cannot undo the actions that were done, neither make people forget (which we should NEVER forget anyways even if we could).
I’m a Chinese, in my education, we all know Japan’s crimes during WWII (1931.09.18-1945.08.15).
The atrocities Japan committed on other asian countries as China, Korea, Sigapore, Malysia, Filippines and so many more. They haven’t apologized or even acknowledged that these tragedies happened and were caused by Japan army in history. It disturbed me to no end. To my shock, not many people in EU and US know of this as well (Only China and Korea people knows this history).
This should definitely be spoken about more and more, this kind of history needs to be known also by Japanese themselves.
I am sure, If the war happens again between China and Japan, Japan will be destoryed completely. Since Japan still not willing to face to this true history and apologize to the victims.
I sincerely wishes the world keep peace and hopes...
Maybe they are terrified of there past but even that is not much of excuse because sooner or later the have to apologize
你們中共解放軍下一個打的肯定不會是日本或美國，恐怕是台灣人民阿
I am Chinese. Although my English is not that good, I want to greatly thank you for posting this video!!! Japan did such a horrible crime in WORLD WAR II, but they refused to admit it or apologize. All they did was wait, waiting for the victims to die, so that there would be no more people who could stand up and point out what they did. not only the rape of NANJING, 731, but also the “comfort woman”. Words cannot describe how Chinese people are glad to see that more and more people are getting to know Japan's crime and asking Japan's government to apologize!!! Again, THANK YOU!!!
Get your revenge
Didn't japan apologize when japan and china normalized diplomatic relations? Also they apologized in the Koizumi-era.
@@user-ib8uj7uk7f A "sorry" means nothing when they refuse to teach about this at their schools and try to hide their history.
@@user-ib8uj7uk7f日本对中国造成了3500万伤亡，这个账你认为道歉就结束了?
I'm a white American. My grandmother hated the Japanese until the day she died. Her brother was a soldier on the Pacific front and was captured by the Japanese. They forced him to dig his own grave, before they shot him in the back of the head.
That being said, I don't blame modern Japanese people for what happened during WWII.
As a Japanese person, I am shocked by this clip. I was taught in school that Japan was defending the whole East Asia countries, as a leader, from invasions of westerner thus we fought fearlessly in wwi. However, seems like the rest of the world doesn't buy this story. If Unit 731 is true, government should apologize instead of hiding from it. Nobody knows about it in Japan.
嘘に決まってるだろ。どうやって700万以上の書類燃やせるんだよ
Do you know about Nanking too?
@@evinelay There was a massacre in Nanjing, but do you know why the Japanese army massacred it? The reason for this is that the "Tongzhou Incident" created a lot of hatred against the Chinese, and the stress on the guerrillas made it difficult to distinguish between enemies and civilians. The same thing happened during the Battle of Okinawa. Also, I have foreign journalists reporting on the Nanjing Massacre, but I don't think Westerners can distinguish between Chinese and Japanese.
@@user-wy8cs2dk1h 私はあなたの家に強盗に入り、まずあなたの家族を殺した。 お前が死ぬ前に俺を刺したから、隠れていた子供を殺したんだ。 それから、あなたは法廷の陪審員に向かってイタチごっこをした。暗くて、それが子供なのか武装した大人なのかわからなかった。LOL。。
@@user-wy8cs2dk1h那就是日本人屠杀上千万中国人的原因？ 作为中国人 只想说 山川异域 不同戴天
Just so you all know, my father was part of the Soviet Army Group that invaded China to liberate Harbin and capture as many of those in Unit 731 as possible. His group had previously liberated a extension of unit 731 in Manchurian, so he was familiar with their horrors. Those his group captured were put on War Crime Trials in Siberia and executed.
Some how being "liberated" by the Soviet Army I am sure wasn't the best experience for Chinese women either? Wonder how many rapes were committed by the Russians just like in all areas they controlled in eastern Europe???
that's ironic, considering the mass rape that went on for decades but specially bad in the first few weeks of occupation of the entire East Germany by the Soviet Army...
Did he or any of them stay? Just wondering because I know there’s a community of Russians in Harbin
@Dru Baxter such an idiotic comment. Every single army in this world that has existed has committed atrocities even your ancestors have done horrible things. The point is this topic about Japan is silent. No one talks about it and even Japan denies most of the war crimes to this day. I love Japan but they try and erase their own war crimes
After the war, many of the researchers of unit 731 were exempt by U.S in exchange of their tests results. However those caputred by Soviet Union met their justice in Siberia.
I’m from the city of harbin where the unit 731 located，thank you for telling the world about the story of unit 731❤I hope peace and love around the world but I think no Chinese people will forget the period of humiliating history❤🇨🇳
我去过侵华日军第731部队罪证陈列馆，里面展出的东西让我很沉重。除了希望世界和平的同时，也希望日本可以用正确的态度甚是自己的过去。忽略和隐瞒从来不是最好的解决办法。这一点日本人真的需要学习德国人。
@@siennah9077 🤝完全正确
I am a Chinese person, I have lived in Japan for some years, I have asked some people about this history...and most of the answers I get is being asked why should we remember? Many thinks remember that hate is a waste of time, and some people don't even think it exists, because if it did it would be as famous as the Nazis. I'm really pissed off by some of those answers.😢
What's worse, they've been acting as martyrs recently over that film Oppenheimer. As if what happened to those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki somehow redeems their nation and brings them into sainthood.
I'm a Chinese immigrants living in US for over a decade now. I practice Kendo and have some connections with a small group of Japanese immigrants. It sometimes surprises me as in how little this piece of history (the invasion, Nanking, 731, etc.) is known. Thank you for your work.
Lol, that's because you're living in the US, in Europe a lot of people have likely heard of it, I'm British and in my 30s and thought it was common knowledge
@@blazednlovinit do you know about the artificially created Bengal femine by Winston Churchill where almost 3-10 million people died?
@@RajaDas-bd6kr What is the event called? I will look it up
@@RajaDas-bd6kr wasn't artificially created by Churchill stop lying. Check your facts , yes some of the rules he made might ( not even proven to ) have had an impact on it but straight after that he sent loads of help and called for help as well.
Overall drought was the very heavy main cause of it not Churchill and it definitely wasn't artificial
And yet the world knows only German gas chambers. Thank you for raising awareness of the Japanese WII atrocities. Hope the world will never forget and never repeat such savage.
You have America to thank
@@gryla5290 yes, we have america to thank who game immunity to the criminals just for some information and killed million of others by dropping a nuke who had nothing to do with anything.
Most of the world doesn't even know about the Holocaust. Most Westerners are extremely ignorant about what the rest of the world actually thinks, knows, or cares about. German gas chambers are largely only known about in Europe and the West.
@@gryla5290 lol
@@gryla5290 America literally covered up most of japans war crimes.
As a Chinese, I never hate regular people in Japan. But also , I would never forgive Japan.And I feel unqualified to forgive Japan for the people who died during the war.
Japanese were beyond BRUTAL to non Japanese people. They did unspeakable things
And then the Japan was surprised USA weapon of mass Destruction to stop all the madness.
And Japan in modern still think USA should apologize but don't get that Japan have to apologize a whole lot more .
Nothing infuriates me more than someone denying or even justifying atrocities their countries committed in the past. I'm from the US and we do it here from the wars and battles against Native Americans to as recent as the war in Iraq. Not only is it frustrating, but also dangerous. Thank you for this video, some Japanese people deny these events happened and we need to make sure these events are never forgotten. Japan is not the imperialist empire it once was.
you forgot Vietnam
America did defeat the Japanese Empire & Nazi Germany. Not everything America did was bad.
Sadly the US forgave these war criminals in echange for their detailed medical analysis of these atrocities. Far worse than the Nazis
All nations do that and often they are rewarded for doing so, while those who admit their mistakes and seek redemption are often attacked and punished for it.
Not admiting to mistakes or cruel acts in the past makes your nation stronger not weaker, thus it is best to not admit them whenever possible.
The idea of forgiveness of sins is a Christian morality concept which does not reflect the world or history long term.
Sad but true.
@@golagiswatchingyou2966
The point is the Chi Comms are funding this anti-Americanism in our colleges & universities by distorting our history. It's another form of weapon they're using to destroy our country from within. These young idiots don't even know they're being exploited.
My grandparents fled Russia after losing to the communists. My mother was born on a Russian ship in Wonsan Harbor and was raised in Harbin, China and later in Shanghai. She was there during the Japanese occupation. Talking to her, many years ago, about a book I was reading, that described how the Japanese would close off both sides of a bridge, over what I would assume was the Songhua River, and let the Europeans off, but take all the Chinese to the 731 camp for “medical” experiments. When I told her what I read, she got a far off look and said “so that’s what they were doing”. My mother had witnessed these things herself! She never really talked about those times, no matter how much we asked.
May I ask you where do you live?
Wow you’re old
that is heartwrenching
Actually 20% of unit731 victims were estimated to be russians aswell. The japanese doctors wanted to "experiment" on different ethnicities.
there were a lot of russians and koreans in the camp as well
As an overseas Chinese person, after seeing this video, I’m really grateful that I was born in such a peaceful era and thankful to my ancestors fighting those criminals in the past. 😢
Don't multiply. Your nation of insects will be doom of humanity
@@aibalta6340 , Japan can't be so cruel like Portugese invaders who killed many in India. Portugese colonials invented newer method of tortures to simple Hindus and Muslims in Goa , India !
as Chinese, we will never and ever forget this history
China denounces 731 as horrific, but now China is putting Uyghurs in concentration camps. They continue to deny this. Despite the fact that Nanjing existed
So why are u ignoring the horrible things that are happening in the Uyghurs right now?
It wasn't just "disdain for anything not Japanese". I remember talking to a man who had been a POW in Burma during WWII who related the following tale. A train pulled up outside the POW camp with closed box cars. Sounds of moaning were heard coming from these locked wagons. The train stayed there all day in the blistering heat and the POWs asked the guards if they could give water to the individuals inside. The guards shrugged and said they didn't care one way or another. The POWs opened the doors to the wagons and were horrified to discover that the people inside weren't prisoners, as they had assumed, but wounded Japanese soldiers. The guards seemed to see them as "failed soldiers" and not worth even the basics of care.
asian countries legit have zero regard for human life. specifically japan still to this day kills countless people by overworking them, among a million other things. It's basically an asian mexico also, where instead of cartels running the country, it's the ladyboy yakuza. Japanese and Chinese people see someone hurt and don't help because it's below them. They're robots.
They are a horrible kind of people in general. Intelligent and capable fighters, but morally corrupt and despicable
Failed warrior needs Seppuku
if they can still moan then it will be only their mommy that cares
@@focidhomophobicii2426 shows how “human” they were tbf
@Krishna Pathi shows how *"brave"* they were
After they accepted western beliefs like indian , they now only become pron industrial country
When I first learned that the members of Unit 731 were given immunity by the Americans, I think that was the moment I stopped believing in the idea of justice in our world. Comments like "never again" or "we should learn from history"... it's all a joke. In the grand scheme of things, our greed and evil will always prevail.
It seems they found their treasure.
Well it's nice to have ideals like the existence of justice. It makes people feel better. however, we live in the real world, not in a fairy tale. it is very difficult to find that satisfying happy ending.
This was due heavily to the influence of Douglas MacArthur who was put in charge of rebuilding Japan after the war and overseeing/enforcing punishment on war criminals. Unfortunately, it was not known back in the U.S. that for several years he had been displaying behaviors, signs of paranoia, and grandiose thinking of someone suffering mental illness because his staff had been covering for him. MacArthur should have been removed early in the war and never allowed any say in Japan, as while he talked a good game he had a bizarre view of the importance of the Emperor, and a lack of morality toward chemical/biological warfare. Per Wikipedia: "MacArthur recommended that Shiro Ishii and other members of Unit 731 be granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for germ warfare data based on human experimentation. He also exempted the Emperor and all members of the imperial family implicated in war crimes, including princes such as Chichibu, Asaka, Takeda, Higashikuni and Fushimi, from criminal prosecutions. MacArthur confirmed that the emperor's abdication would not be necessary. In doing so, he ignored the advice of many members of the imperial family and Japanese intellectuals who publicly called for the abdication of the Emperor." The American public had no knowledge at the time of Unit 731 or his decision not to prosecute as he essentially kept the details secret from the public. His stance on the Imperial family was unpopular with the American public.
High time to destroy the patriarchy. It’s proven itself evil, sick, and flawed to its greedy-pathetic core.
@@RubyGB mhm i guess i just let the imperial family off for noooo other reason... get your Wikipedia ass outta here
All of this story of Japanese atrocities makes me want to visit Oppenheimer's very grave and lay so many flowers to thank him for his service... and as an Indonesian, I thank him for his invention that helped fasten our independence from Japan
@@Whatt787
Japan had already surrendered without dropping the atomic bomb. you are ignorant
you are ignorant We should be grateful for how much the Japanese contributed to Indonesia's independence. Ingratitude is criticized.
@@user-wy8cs2dk1hnagasaki hiroshima go boom haha
He was cremated
@@user-wy8cs2dk1h This sounds like thanking Britain for conquering the nations they conquered
You are right, it is difficult to like a video like this but it is so extremely well done that I just have to appreciate it. This is the first video I’ve seen from your channel and I am very impressed by the quality, disclaimers, respectful and informative summarization of highly difficult topics and reflection on your own work. 👏🏻👏🏻 thank you
As a Korean that learned such events throughout my school life, it shocked me to see almost none of my western companions being familiar with the Japanese atrocities during WW2 and their occupation of Korea.
@LEE JIANNE that's interesting. I also had my IGCSE history course and I remember nothing about Korea...maybe the syllabus has changed. I also find it interesting since I find way more content online regarding the disasters at China, but I guess thats simply my recommendations. please note that I'm not trying to argue with any of your statement, as I'm genuinely curious about the education elsewhere... I'm glad to hear that our history is getting recognition internationally. Thanks for sharing the info!
Chinese person here, and I agree
I actually got to learn what about this in school, and i remember seeing those pictures of the pregnant women in text books. What I didn't learn is what the colonizers did to the natives in u.s. I learned that outside of school :/ I ashamed to be an american
But they sure love anime 😃
it depends on the western curriculum! there are some who talk about it and also hold imperial japan responsible. unfortunately, most western curriculums right now only talk about the japanese-american internment camps and pearl harbor. it is only western higher education (university level) that brings light to their crimes
My Grandma is one of the surviver from that period of time, her whole family got killed except her and her older sister's baby son, she have to escape and survive by herself and rise her nephew on her own. She once told me that when she Is out waiting in line for food supply the person standing in front of her got his head cut off from the boomerang-like wepon( idk what really that is), everywhere she goes she saw corpes and money and golds holding by the dead people that are trying to run away but fail. She got really bad PTSD till this day, she will constantly have nightmare and when she hear the helicopter she will scream and say" run and hide！The japaneses are coming！" cuz she thinks the helicopter is the bomber.
I feel very sorry for your grandma. She is still living those nightmares. Hope she overcomes all these nightmares.
corpse*
Idk anything about weapons but maybe it was a Kukri cuz it looks kinda like a boomerang
@@voidmain9519 only in death will she find peace. Such is the atrocities and horrors that the victims faced. It was an all out mass murder, torture and rape fest back then
@@maddyx3711 very bad😞 that these haunt the victims throughout their lifetimes. How sickening it is to even imagine!!! All I can do is pray 🙏🏼
Thank you for educating me. I was taught everything European in my history classes, but it was never really mentioned or taught what happened in Asia around WW time. It's actually horrific that I only have to find out now, and that I didn't know a thing of this. But I will learn more, also thanks to this channel. So thank you.
The primary criminals in Unit 731 were rehired by Fort Derrick Lab later to continue relevant job, and the price is these criminals don’t have to pay for what they did, and yet Covid 19 started originally from Fort Derick
My great-grandmother died a few months ago. This video made me remember a story she once told me- When my great-grandmother was a young girl, Japanese airplanes threw bombs down on her homeland, Shanghai. She hid and was one of the few people who survived. I will never forget what the Imperial Japanese soldiers did to China, and no one should deny this piece of history. I feel extremely sad that such a small amount of Westerners know about China’s war with Japan.
History should not be forgotten.
(Forgive me for the grammar)
You are doing fine.
@@nayrtnartsipacifyare you sure, china is literally falling apart. Has 70% unemployment rate for young adults.
China is not doing well, and it’s entirely because of the CCP and their corrupt policies
I don't kniw if you've noticed. But anywhere there are atrocities like this that happened they really don't teach them to the masses. That goes for EVERY country. That way we all would see our own government in a good light fir whenever they start up wars again. Truth and doing what's right gets shadowed by the corrupt. Sadly this is the world we live in.
Youre committing the same things now
@@yanshi9142not all people in China are part of the government or support the government
Thank you for taking the time and effort to educate people of this. It doesn't surprise me that UA-cam attempted to demonetize this. They know what they're doing, and it disgusts me, but it makes me feel better to see people supporting you, and I want to as well. Thank you.
Donate me
@@Fusion991 Donate me
keep the same energy for the country you live in too then
@@muhammadshaaf7178 Where did I say that I didn't? I hate my country 😂
@@Fusion991 broooooo💀
Holding back tears, this was beyond dreadful. And what’s also daunting is history tends to repeat itself 😔
I’m japanese. My English is not good, but I have to say about this video. Almost all of the Japanese people know the Japanese brutal history during WW2. And also, we want to apologize for so many victims and nations but our government hasn’t taken any actions for the case. I hope we don’t repeat this history again.
Thank you and also remember this is not a reflection of modern or citizens we love you people don't forget that but the right wingers who deny that this ever took place are very ignorant and the government have to do more to make people aware of their history
thank you. Japan USA forever.
Your country is powerful now so theres a possibility that this brutal war crimes would repeat again.
what about the nuclear radioactive water your country releasing in water, you repeated the history by punishing people to environment,disgusting 🤢
Rare Jp people as you to honestly say they knows the truth. But government is denying to face the criminals because many of their ascents work in past.
Disliking history doesn't negate it's existence. Learn the lessons so we don't fall into the same circumstances. Thank you for sharing this.
"Nothing is new under the sun" ~Bible
You can learn all the history you want it doesn't change the fact that people will not care, I mean look at Japan they know about this but they'll deny it forever, And even if they accept it they'll still consider the unit 731 to be heroes. Wisdom is a collection of past mistakes which people can learn from but it's a choice at the end of the day.
"Nothing is new under the sun" ~Bible
You can learn all the history you want it doesn't change the fact that people will not care, I mean look at Japan they know about this but they'll deny it forever, And even if they accept it they'll still consider the unit 731 to be heroes. Wisdom is a collection of past mistakes which people can learn from but it's a choice at the end of the day.
History is unfolding right now lol
We know in 3rd world countries political opponents are thrown in jail
Don’t matter if you hate it like Biden, trumps running and they tryna toss him in jail, but seems no one cares
no, but the complete lack of evidence kinda does
@@deadboltzz5199 unit 731 were heroes in our book.
Update Mar 26th* Our video has been remonetized on UA-cam after a successful appeal. We thank our supporters for standing by us in bringing attention to this crucial matter.
March 20th* UA-cam has demonetized this video, which will result in it being suppressed. Unit 731 was way more brutal than what is shown in the video; youtube unfortunately won't let us post the actuality of the event. In fact, even when we simmer it down, they demonetize it.
We’ve appealed the decision, and we’ll keep you updated on how it goes.
I might just be because of "the RAPE of Nankin''. It is referred to as "the Nankin event" by mamy content creator now. Welcome to this dumb censorship brave new world...
Funny how most media outlets including UA-cam always want to surpress the truth.
Disgusting, UA-cam are spitting in the faces of the victims.
This video was recommended to me by the algorythm, so, perhaps it's not all that bad.
That's such a shame; you're a history channel educating people about the atrocities of the past, and you've done so very respectfully and sensitively too.
It's also called Maruta. Koreans are well aware of this brutal history because most victims were Koreans and Chinese. Just can't relate to people saying Japanese are the nicest people in the world knowing the history. They never even sincerely apologize.
This should be teached in schools and worldwide
Thanks for putting this up. It takes tremendous efforts to make historical video covering this kind of topic, the creator could go through all sorts of obstacle including internal ones(digging the horrible historical facts) and external ones(pressure from people/org who want to deny the happening of those facts), your work is much appreciated, war crime should be remembered and acknowledged to prevent all humanity from becoming victims.
@Lil Yeet 🏳🌈⃠ living in denial...how pity
@Lil Yeet 🏳🌈⃠ Do the world a favor and "yeet" yourself, troll bot.
@Dachi Xu.. So well said, beautifully articulated comment of great importance. Thank you for your excellent work.
@Lil Yeet 🏳🌈⃠ bro just dont. This isnt the place to ask for attention your family doesnt give. Its annoying
@Lil Yeet 🏳🌈⃠ you are literally 12 years old
Thanks for explaining this history in detail. The purpose of remembering history is not to foster hate, but to review humankind's behavior so that we can create a better world in the future. Although my grandmother's many brothers and sisters were killed by the Imperial Japanese Army, my Japanese classmates and colleagues have been very nice to me. I just wish that tragedies like this will never happen again and that the victims will receive a proper and consistent apology and compensation from the Japanese government.
where do you live? in japan? you say you have japanese classmates so wanted to know
@@kb-hf5ws United States, I have classmates from everywhere.
sorry to say but that wish is impossible to achieve...as long as humans exist so will evil coz power corrupts and most of those who lead us are pure evil in every sense and its only going to get worse
@@franklinchen2898 i see so you are in high school? or are you doing your bachelors? again just curious
@@kb-hf5ws That was my school time, many years ago, I worked already.
Thank you so much for educating people about this history, the victims should never be forgotten.
Thank you for sharing this history with us. The despicable and evil acts committed by this unit, and the fact that most of those responsible were unpunished after the war, should be remembered. Lest we forget.
Issue is, Japan still denies its war atrocities, does not teach this type of history at school, has not apologized or accepted liability and, glorify and honor condemned war criminals. Japan still flies the rising sun flag and many of the ruling class of Japan still have imperialist mindsets.
You have literally no idea what you're talking about. Read a book.
Chinese deny invasion of Tibet
As a Chinese, I really love Japan. But the history should not be forgotten, it just reminds us how important peace is, not to remind us about hatred
Same and well said ..
I am ashamed any Chinese who like Japan or Japanese even they deny all the atrocities in China.
I like your mindset. I have met Chinese people that hope for revenge someday. It is never to be forgotten, but you still carry love, while some carry hate. Kudos
@@mikeychch The elder Chinese mindset is just terrible, but for young people they’re just more open-minded (not all of them)
@@BeatLabStudio2024 I think it’s because many of the elder Chinese people experienced the atrocities themselves, so I really can’t blame them for carrying hatred
Thank you for this video. Thank you so much.
I learned of Unit 731 in the '90s. Even then I was shocked that their atrocities weren't as well known as those perpetrated by their Axis counterparts. Given what the U.S. has gained from their experimentation data, however, it makes sense that they've been swept under the rug. Back in the early 2000s when the Japanese PM was being criticized for visiting the memorial of WW2 Japanese soldiers, I saw photos of protesters in the mainstream press- some of whom were carrying signs bearing 731 among foreign characters I couldn't decipher. Despite the photo, there was no mention in the article about Unit 731 being among the gripes of those against the PM's paying homage.
Wait, are you saying the blanket immunity made sense?
It's unfortunately always like that. I remember when Shinzo Abe was shot there was a BBC article dragging in Chinese and Korean people gloating on social media with a one-line explanation that they have a difficult political past with Japan. Sure they were glad he died but words can't even describe how angry I was that BBC didn't bother explaining why Asia hates him so much even though they were happy to encourage sinophobia and the negative image of China. And the west is always on the topic of Chinese state media that cannot be trusted.
Unfortunately this is NOT taught in Japanese schools... I mentioned it to one Japanese guy and he said I was lying...that it never happened
@@orionxtc1119 Idk how you must have felt at that moment. I once came across a Japanese girl in college here in Germany. Talked for a bit and just asked out of curiosity wether those thing were taught in their school. I didn't have my hopes up while asking, just wanted to confirm things talked about on Chinese internet that they removed everything from their history text book. Well, she kinda confirmed that, tried to be empathetic by saying stuff like "I know some bad things happend to your people, but I don't really know much about it". Which might actually be true tbh, girls also tend to be intrested in those stuff less which is fine by me.
I didn't feel anger at talking to her really. I just felt sad, those who died just died, who suffered just suffered. Then I came to realisation, I was the naive one out here. The only thing that impressed Japanese, or anyone really, was power. If the US hadn't shown its capability to Abomb Japan, it won't have respected and to an extend idealised the US. If I wanted to never fall victim to Japan or anyone ever again, I better belong to a group that has the biggest baddest weapon, be it evil or not, others will have to respect my group to avoid being wiped out themselves. Hammering on how bad Japanese were doesn't make them feel guilty, pointing a gun at their head you might get an apology out of them though.
I feel comforted and vindicated, knowing there are so many people like you who are actually aware of such a thing that happened in detail outside of the victimized countries. I have been criticized and ridiculed quite often when I spoke up about the issue in the past and felt hopeless .... not so much anymore.
One of them is the extremely crucial “motherhood experiment” they put the mother and her newborn baby in a room with heating ground to test how long she can resist stepping on her own baby to save herself, I mean , just imagine it.
_Jesus WEPT!_
Wow😮just wow😮
what the fuck
Who would even think of something like that?
I heard that story as well, just pure evil.
It's astounding how sadistic human can be. History has shown us this multiple times, and it's still beyond my comprehension how so many people can carry out such atrocities
As someone who has family from Guam, Japan was our villain. From 1941-1944 Japanese Occupation resulted in the enslavement of Chamorro people (including kids as young as 12yo) in camps, forced labor, rape, beheading, starvation, lack of sanitation, and torture.
Edit: I still disapprove of the use of atomic bombs, because the existence of weapons capable of so much mass destruction alone is terrifying... but I would hope Japan educates its people of the atrocities commited by their military (just as the USA should educate our citizens about central america, middle east, etc).
I’m Japanese and I’m well aware of the disgusting atrocities we committed during the war. I feel so bad for those people. If I was there I would have stopped any of them, as a human being I would have done so
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You would have been like the people there at the time.
@@JohnMoran so you assume every single citizen was aware of their governments actions and were OK with it. Not a single decent human among them eh?
Tomas Johnson
interesting name I think you r a Japanese oppressor pretending to be a Japanese
What would you do exactly?
I can't be more grateful to you. When I saw the video about Nanking's massacre, I felt so sad that you didn't cover up Unit 731 too. Thank you for making the video and spreading consciousness while being impartial, thank you. Sadly too many people who participated in the Unit 731 experiments (on the Japanese side) were forgiven and granted immunities just because they shared the results of the experiments that costed millions of Chinese lives and this injustice just makes my blood boil.
Yoshimura Hisato, a physiologist in Unit 731, had a special interest in hypothermia and used human subjects to test human's reactions to frostbite. Hisato routinely picked innocent prisoners in random to immerse their limbs into a tub of water filled with ice cones and left them there until their limbs were frozen solid and a coat of ice were surrounded over the skin. He observed these victims to get the data on how long it took for the human bodies to experience different degrees of frostbite under different temperature conditions. According to one of the witness to the frostbite testing, the limbs made a sound like a plank of wood when struck with a cane. Then, Hisato tried different ways for obtaining the data on how long it took for the victims own blood to thaw under different temperature conditions by rapidly rewarming of their frozen limbs. Sometimes he did this by immersing their limbs into hot water, sometimes by forcing them to put their limbs on an open fire, and sometimes just by leaving the victim overnight without treatment to watch the results.
At the same time, as a rigorous scientist, Hisato also recorded all emotional reactions and muscle activities of the victims during the experiments, to be good materials for his colleagues in Unit 731 who studied the human fear response.
He was thus able to scientifically demonstrate that the best way to treat frostbite was to immerse it in water slightly above 100 degrees, but never above 122 degrees.
After World War II, he was granted immunity from prosecution, and went on to occupy key medical and other posts in public and private sectors in Japan.
As a Singaporean, we studied in our history books about the atrocities done to us, perhaps only the tip of the iceberg
@@wadswwwwasdwWhataboutism.
I visited the museum in Harbin, they displayed everything about Unit 731. Walking through and learning what happened was terrifying, what’s worse is they displayed items that were used and left behind by the unit - from uniform to lunch boxes to experimental props - 😢
What was some of the worst things you saw?
Tell me more, I always want to visit this place someday. The story of a horrible place should be in the movie and speak out loud. Today, it is repeated once again, the Jap and the US evil politicians continuing crimes.
@@intellicogroup405 More cruel than video photos...
I worked for almost 5 years in Pingfang, the area South of Harbin where the Unit 741 was. I confirm the “uncomfortable” feeling had by visiting the museum. Same as the one felt by visiting Dachau.
@@intellicogroup405 I’m originally from Harbin, China. Still vividly remembered the hooks they put ppl on in the Exhibition Hall of Crime Evidence of Japanese Germ Factor in Harbin..
Thanks for speaking out. History should not be forgotten.
And repeated
But won't doing that create more grudges and prejudices against people who didn't commit the acts themselves.
@Deljohn V. Lumongsod WW2 is not the entire history of japan but rather a part of it. Japan has thousands upon thousands of years of history....How much can one learn
@@whitewolf2767 The Europeans destroyed whole indigenous peoples. Its estimated in science more than 110 millions of indigenous peoples were genocided by white Europeans. Europeans wiped out native Americans in north america ,south America California to brazil part was South America too until they went seperate nations native Americans were upto equators , easter islanders, also new zealands . Native alaskans ,inuit dorset(siberian group)lived in canada,Greenland siberia (which is now russia) they used to cross Beringhad bridge and had many cross cultural history. Siberians on russia was genocided by Russians more than 70% yakuts was wiped out more than 12 Siberians ethnic was completely wiped out siberia was 90% of russia which is now today ,Prussians destroyed siberians into what is small colony today.
只有被害人在一直铭记历史,而加害者却删去了这一部分历史 😢😢
Japan has already apologized in the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Friendship. Furthermore, China has waived its right to claim compensation.
China denounces 731 as horrific, but now China is putting Uyghurs in concentration camps. They continue to deny this. Despite the fact that Nanjing existed
@@wadswwwwasdw什么时候道歉的？没有一个人知道 ！！每个人都知道日本不承认战败 也不道歉,日本还把真相隐藏起来 真是太坏了！！
Look Japanese Treaty of Friendship. Furthermore, China has waived its right to claim compensation.
educate urself
I subscribed! Just cause you had the courage to speak out the truth ❤
Unit 731 is probably the most horrifying thing I've heard about; more people need to know about it.
@Jack Smith And we've all benefited from the medical advancements.... would you deny a treatment that will save your arm because the knowledge was discovered in unit 731?
@@blazednlovinit how are you so sure of its medical benefits? Which one are there then?
@@blazednlovinit they did stuff that was not related to anything medical or scientific upcoming. You are a foolish person to bring up this logic and accept anything other than the fact that they were just coward monsters who took advantage of people and tortured innocent people just like you.
I looked it up on Wikipedia and it's the most horrifying thing I've ever read about, I can't even process it. More people should know about it.
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Tbf, the USA got nothing to do with the Japanese or the Chinese at the time. From a strategic standpoint of wanting to control Japan and gaining a foothold in Asia, pardoning some people that did nothing to their nation or their people is fine.
If they were doing it to Americans then I doubt these people would be pardoned. Might seems cold and bizarre now but the world was a different place back in those years of massive international conflicts, everyone was out for themselves.
I still think that these peopledeserves retribution but I also know, for the greater purpose of a nation, all crimes can be forgiven(from the laws).
It wasn't the right thing to do, but it was inevitable.
As an Global studies, East Asian Concentration major, history minor and Okinawan-Japanese 3rd generation American, I’m more than familiar with the cruelty on all sides during WW2 and after, but I only recently learned about this event since it’s only just been declassified in the last decade, if I remember correctly.
(Btw, some of my comments below may be triggering, reader discretion advised.)
For those wondering about the reasons for the coverup, they have much to do with both the politics of the time and racism. For politics it was because after the war, the Cold War between the Soviets and Americans was getting worse. Ishii, after realizing Japan’s defeat, played to both sides, packing up his ‘research’ and striking a deal with the Americans, whom he threatened by saying he’d to leak it to the Soviets if not. Due to this, the Americans accepted, especially because the research was something they not only wanted, but didn’t want the Soviets to have. For similar political reasons, America sought to suppress this information so that they could gain a favorable leverage with the Japanese government against the communist block that was expanding in Asia.
- This was the similar reason for not prosecuting Hirohito, the emperor, and downplaying his role- HE WAS IN THE ROOM, and even if the military led, he very much agreed. He was very much a part of these decisions. But if they (the United States) took out such a public figure, Douglas MacArthur and the Americans at the time ‘calculated’ (sorry, that’s the best word I could come up with) that the public may be enraged again, and any hopes of reconciliation and reconstruction would not be plausible, so they whitewashed him and made him a figurehead taken over by general, which he was, in fact, not.
On the other hand, the racism was much like this video explained. The Americans, like most of the West, didn’t care nearly as much about the crimes committed by Asians, against Asians; it was not quite the same as the Holocaust, which happened right in the backyard of Europe- and even the Holocaust had and still has Anti-Semitic Deniers. Let alone Asia, which was out of eyesight and wasn’t of concern. After the bombs of Nagasaki and Hiroshima (which, by the way, actually killed many enslaved Koreans instead of just Japanese as they were logistic cities with supply factories using kidnapped individuals), the first to the scene weren’t often doctors, but scientists. They went not to help, but to document the radioactive side effects. There are pictures you can look up to prove my words; they helped nothing and took pictures of people’s melted skin. But back on track, this racist disregard for ‘others’ as long as it wasn’t them, and especially when it wasn’t convenient, was indeed a reason that rather than bringing 731 to light, they buried it.
In other aspects not mentioned in the video, probably because they didn’t want to be banned, some of the knowledge gained from these horrifying experiments included the combustion and freezing point of a human being, which would play a role in space exploration and even potentially improving medical techniques, alongside greater understanding of plagues and biological warfare possibilities. I AM NOT SUPPORTING OR CONDONING THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED, NOR DEFENDING THE UNITED STATES FOR NOT PROSECUTING THEM. I am simply stating a bit more about the ‘what the United States gained’ for taking in such heinous criminals. I also can’t say that other governments would not have done the same in the place of America. But as for America, I think it was extremely wrong not to have recognized the horrors or- at the very, Very, VERY LEAST- prosecuted such individuals for committing them. But they did, let alone their overlooking of their own crimes against Japanese Americans CITIZENS who were forcibly ‘interned’ during the war, the American military rape scandals in the imperialistic decades during or after, or the sending back of Japanese soldiers’ skulls by some Americans who fought in the pacific. That being said, despite all their faults, I still believe America and the Allies winning was a better outcome; otherwise, who would have known whether I could be alive writing this today. I don’t think I would, and we probably would have been brainwashed. I would also add that, as many have commented, it’s not just America that should recognize such crimes- JAPAN, DO YOUR PART TOO! I love Japanese culture, speak some Japanese, and have many friends, but am not so in love with their handling of the past- from ‘ianfu’ (‘comfort women’), to Nanking, to Unit 731, to the atrocities committed against the indigenous Okinawans and their civilian populations who were often sacrificed by the Japanese during the war in the pacific theater, and still haven’t even been recognized as an indigenous group, to everything else horrible they did that I- and we- do not and will never know about.
I pray for the souls of the victims on all fronts, that this may not happen again. Even if that seems implausible, with how the wars of this world keep going. And with war seeming intrinsic to human history. Ugh, this is making me sad.
Okay sorry that went on for way too long, but this is just too much in my field of study.
P.S. Yes, I am a western-based scholar, unfortunately I can’t change my circumstances. But I still believe, even if it’s a “western imperialistic capitalistic” view, that history is a good thing, that it’s the data of the human experiment, and should be recorded, studied and remembered, so as not to be repeated- because we’re not that much further ahead.
(Oof my Asian Middle Eastern Studies Professor would have hated that last statement just now. He vehemently hates the ‘subject’ of history, as a mechanism of institutional imperialism. I hope he never asks me my opinion directly, or else I’m failing, end of story.)
That comment was as good as the whole video. Thank you for the insight.
Great comment. Very informative
Wow, great precisions, much appreciated, thanks. Now, the US: they did use the insect bombs on North Korea, killing one third of the population, the 700 pages declassified report is available online, google "REVEALED The long-suppressed official report on US biowarfare in North Korea"
Then, the looting: if you google: "Availability of Captured Japanese Scientific and Industrial Material to American Industry" you will realize that the US systematically looted all the scientific and industrial knowledge they could get their hands on including some scientists, often at the point of a gun. They did even worse in Germany, it can be found under "The Great Patent Heist 1945" and for the German treasures and artwork you may find it under "The Monuments Men". In the US it was under the leadership of "The Office of Alien Property Custodian" and the "The Foreign Documents Division 1946-1947"
Now, the treasure. Just like they did in Germany they accused the Japanese of having plundered every nation they went to, I don't know whether one should believe them, their truth credits are pretty low but one thing, one more against them is that they used that allegation to seize it all, and take it back to the US to be used in black projects. This one is called "Yamashita's Gold" and it was worth billions. Col. Edward Lansdale the Famous and his team tortured Gen. Yamashita's driver and he finally spilled it all.
Of course I could include "The Morgenthau Plan" later "JCS 1067", the plan to starve to death millions of Germans and turn the country into an immense wheat field but that is not the place nor the time, just know that since 1945 the US has murdered over 20 million people, mostly civilians in one of its wars or another. Bad yanks, bad
P.S.: I have no degree in nothing, I'm just curious. Cheers, from french Canada.
Be a man and take the initiative to tell your Asian Studies Professor how you feel. Your Professor is PART OF THE PROBLEM, like most professors and teachers today.
Thank you for the comment.
A fascinating topic. Have you done one that covers the canabilism during the second war
Thanks for sharing this❤
Don't understand how this channel hasn't blown up yet, great videos covering obscure topics that most stray away from. Love it
You answered your question lol
Not enough tik tok dances to keep the masses amused
@@skrawny-clown-snatcherofth8651 thought it was pretty clear I meant other UA-cam channels stray away from but I see the irony in perceiving it the way you did lol
This type of content does not stupify the masses, so no visibility for it.
UA-cam doesnt want to show you the truth of this world
Japan committed once in a millennium atrocities. I salute people like you spreading awareness to the uninformed so these events don’t fade out of history.
Japan is innocent because it liberated Asia.
My grandfather was one of the eight survivors in his village from Japanese massacre. They dumped the bodies(500) into a dry well. Some of them played death but later died from suffocation of the stacking bodies. My grandfather later joined the Chinese Army and killed many Japanese soldiers on the battlefield. He has no fear nor mercy towards the enemies and probably that’s the reason why he survived all the significant battles.
Thanks for making this video, i feel like everyone should learn about the past and make sure none of those atrocities should ever be repeated again in the future. Other then that thanks for all the effort put into the video!
This is the kind of history that should be taught in schools all over the world. It should be straight forward and uncensored.
Oh Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, China, even some USA school taught about this. The problem is not because we don't know. The problem is how we can let the offending country acknowledge their stuff and move on from this!
Tell it to ur kids first.
Whoever mentions the Chinese government's genocide against the Uighurs in the comments, I have to say: As a Uighur living in the United States for many years, I can tell you that before the 2008 terrorist attacks sponsored by the United States to split China, my hometown Xinjiang was a beautiful and peaceful place. We Uighurs did not face discrimination; we lived harmoniously with other ethnic groups, including the Han Chinese. My parents and I received high-quality and affordable education. Our economy was thriving, and the majority of Uighurs lived prosperous lives. So, as a local, I and my Uighur friends around me see the only enemies as the American officials who sponsored those terrorist attacks. They are the criminals, not China or Chinese government.
China denounces 731 as horrific, but now China is putting Uyghurs in concentration camps. They continue to deny this. Despite the fact that Nanjing existed.
Perhaps you are a CCP operative. Unfortunately, this was evident when China invaded and annexed the Uighurs.
Yeah, so why are the photos of the concentration camps being leaked?
Maybe You are a CCP operative.
In the first place, the result is clear as soon as China invades the Uyghurs.
Thank you so much for educating people about this history
My father was an American POW captured by the Japanese during the fall of Bataan. He was in a prison ship that took him to Mukden in Manchuria. There he and other POWs were experimented on. People need to know this happened!
I find it insane how American POW's were so mistreated by the Jap's yet the American military and government at large let them off the hook without proper trials.
Yep, people need to know that it wasn't just Chinese, but also Koreans, Mongolians, Russians and allied POWs like Americans and Australians who were experimented on, not just in unit731 but all across the japanese occupied territories by japanese torture chambers.
Yea I can’t believe more people aren’t familiar with this. There’s actually a movie about Unit 731 called “The Man Behind The Sun”. I think that’s what it’s called lol
thank you!
Neither can I. I thought Unit 731 was pretty infamous in WW2 and it's atrocities that led up to the conflicts around the Pacific
Spooky Rice Disturbing breakdown
One Mad Dad I've only seen clips of it there's an vivisection scene. And a real dead kid being used for such scene. I'm to faint of heart to watch it. Also there's a scene were they set rats on fire.
Yeah it’s rated X right?
Worse than a nightmare. Those poor people and helpless children …
As a Chinese citizen, I was told the story of Unit 731 since child, thank you for revealing the evil truth of 731.
Thing is, as a Japanese person, I never knew about Unit 731 until recently. No textbooks talk about this. I agree, Japanese governments should spread the awareness of what they have done to young japanese citizens instead of denying and hiding it. Some Japanese people, especially the government are crap and don’t deserve to live, but after taking a look at the comments, to the people out there (you know who you are) it doesn’t necessarily mean every Japanese person is bad.
Edit: Many Japanese young people actually don’t know about this either. Ive seen some people mention it, but they never show any hostility towards foreigners or towards me. In my opinion, the government and the old people hiding the truth on Unit 731 are the worst.
People need to stop blaming populations and instead blame our governments. They’re the ones that manipulate us and commit atrocities and start wars while us (the people) are dragged along.
Well to be honest coming from Belgium, we saw a little bit what our king Leopold did in Congo but more ore less the same like this. Im not sure if Germany also has this but it looks like something countries just do.
実は数年前にNHKが７３１のドキュメンタリーを作ったことがあったんだけど、右翼の人から凄まじい非難を受け、その後も消されたかのように誰もこのことを話さなくなったんだよね
@@BeEnNLGaming i Think Germany and just Germany is the exeption to that rule.
당신은 양심 있는 분 입니다.
Haven't even gotten to the Unit 731 part of the video, but I just want to say the way you explain the history leading up to WWII in Japan is absolutely phenomenal. Not only is it easy to understand (albeit I'm sure nowhere near comprehensive), it's engrossing. Well done
May I suggest that you read "The Rising Sun" by Robert Toland
There is a movie out called 'Men behind the sun' which supposedly depicts some of the horrors of Unit 731, I'm not sure if it's available to buy anywhere but I'm sure if you look, you can find it
Learned a lot. Thank You.
I’ve been a teacher in Japan for 11 years now and through the 11 years of living and working here I have never met a Japanese person who shows knowledge of the war crimes that they committed during World War II. And because the Japanese suppress foreigners so much in this country we foreigners are too scared to speak about the war crimes the Japanese did in World War II. I never knew such a bad country like this would ever exist. I’m looking forward to getting out of this place.
They have revised the history syllabus in the school curriculum.
@@zvz-mt4rq How do you know? That should be a state secret.
Japan is a place to visit, not to work at. I have friends who worked in a Japanese company here in our county but they all resigned in the end because of the work culture. What’s more working there especially in a school system. Japan is still undoubtedly a nice country but I don’t see myself working there, maybe if its an international country that does not adhere to Japanese work culture.
it's a land of a demons disguised as an angels..now they are building thier military again,sooner or later they will do it again.
I can't believe that you have mede it that long in the Japanese education system!! LOL I recently returned to Japan after living 20 odd years in a English speaking country due to family matters and I am still finding it hard to adjust my life, especially in a (same) working environment (as you). You already know the same story that happens to many Japanese people who have lived abroad for long. The majority of people is ignorant, either they don't want to talk about or doesn't know about it. When we voice our opinion, they ask us why we are living here if we speak ill of their country and tell us to go back to the country where we think is perfect. It's really hard to fins someone who I can connect in deeper level here. However, there are a few very popular UA-camrs in their late 20s address the terrible things we did in the past and educate the younger generation not to repeat the same mistakes again. I hope you will find someone who you can engage good conversations with while you are living in Japan!
Thank you for spreading this history. It is a reminder that humans are terrible and history like this should never be forgotten.
Japanese* are terrible. There, fixed it for you.
Thanks for the video, this is very informative. Btw, please talk about Gaza
As a Chinese I truly appreciate you to show the world the real history. Please remember that we are trying to spread the hate to Japan, and that's definitely not what we want. But the what they actually did should never be forgotten. The millions of innocent people 's soul shouldn't be discredited.
There are two things take make me concerned. First; The Japanese doctors who committed all of that was never punished. Second; The other countries, USA and Russia, quite possibly didn't sentence them to death because they needed what they had gathered from the 'experiments' to develop their own biological weapon
The USSR actually did, they were the only ones capturing and executing Unit 731 scientists in their own tribunals. The U.S., however, did not.
@@daeseongkim93 Good to know. Its ironic that the West always sees themselves as the good guys despite being more evil than their enemies in many cases.
@@daeseongkim93 did you not watch the video? The guy quite literally said the Soviets DID NOT issue death sentences and even returned the Unit 731 members back to Japan..
Top officials were executed in trials and the majority of the solders who claimed they were just following orders were sent to siberia for 20 years of labor which is also equalent to a death sentence. Not everyone returned those who were alive still alive after a decade returned and they were not in good health condtion either. And the main reason they returned is not to improve relation with the japanese but it could be one of the reason. The main reason was gulag was abolished in 1954 after stalin's death.
Usa is disgusting
I’ve read about this. This video is just the tip of the iceberg. It was so much more brutal.
japan has to repay the debt or victim countries will revenge - sth don't have due date - good till paid - in full
@@bobevans9996 yeah no lmao. You can't legally hold the current Japanese nor the administration accountable for activities that occured almost a hundred years ago. Get a move on gramps.
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We nuke em twice- ungrateful people victimized Japan as if everyone was innocent there__not so when you supported a war for nearly 15 years if we counted the Second Sino-Japanese war
individuals die not nations
criminal nations have to pay victim nations or those victim nations will revenge those criminal nations - war is country to country not person to person
@@wake6000 weeb, stop watching anime
Insane how this is hidden. I’m German and at school we get taught thoroughly all the horrible things Germany did. But we never hear anything about this. In media the only thing we learn about Japan in ww2 is how they are the victims of Hiroshima. While Germany is still associated with ww2 today, Japan is only associated with anime and clean polite people. Do they acknowledge their crimes at all?
他们不承认，甚至拒绝道歉，至今仍然将当年的战犯视为民族英雄，每届首相都会去祭祀
Chinese people do not run Hollywood that is why
The US ctrl western media, that why
some of the war criminals are still see as hero in japan and put in their shrine，many young generations don‘t konw
what their grandfather or great-grandfather‘s generation did at all due to their education
直到今天，我们依然在等待日本的道歉，其他亚洲国家也一样
Japan, a country that has been a neighbor to China for thousands of years, has always played such a role. When China became strong, it learned from China and said that it was harmless and weak, and that China was benevolent and benevolent. They did not hesitate to teach various advanced cultures and technologies to the Japanese, but when China declined, the true purpose of Japan was exposed. They began to burn, kill and loot along the coast of China until the large-scale invasion of China occurred in World War II. war, and committed countless crimes, until the United States dropped two atomic bombs, they finally realized that the United States was far more powerful than Japan, so they began to continue to play the role they had played in history, that is, surrender, and continued to act like The United States, which is now more powerful, expresses its weakness and pity. If one day the United States declines, they will surely abandon the forbearance they have had since World War II and transform into a brutal nation whose thirst for land is unparalleled.
When I was growing up in Korea, I remember playing with my Great Grandpa when I was in my elementary school. It was really shocking to learn that he had 11 siblings and many got killed by Japanese and then North Koreans. War is a true tragedy.
One of my great uncles was taken prisoner by the Japanese during ww2, they tortured him terribly and he never really recovered despite being lucky enough to be rescued and repatriated and went on to live to a good old age
My grandfather was also a Japanese POW. watching him sob and break down, while telling us about his time. Broke my heart.
Thanks for your contribution to letting us know the real history.
Thanks for helping people to aware of this part of history. Which is majority of the world are not knowing about and Japanese government has been denying it.
Korean here. It breaks me not much acknowledgment is out there for my ancestors and those of my asian brothers and sisters. Bottom of my heart, thank you all for willing to hear us out.