The Most Disturbing Human Experiment Ever

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  • @Wendigoon
    @Wendigoon  11 місяців тому +1878

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    • @theratking4599
      @theratking4599 11 місяців тому +111

      About to watch another amazing toe curling video 🐀🐀

    • @shade0636
      @shade0636 11 місяців тому +239

      Nah I'm good. I'll enjoy the video instead.

    • @StaticDean
      @StaticDean 11 місяців тому +91

      Unsubbing

    • @dreamman5588
      @dreamman5588 11 місяців тому +251

      ​@@StaticDean bye

    • @JRSRLN
      @JRSRLN 11 місяців тому +81

      ​@StaticDean we miss you already... 😒

  • @yossy2827
    @yossy2827 8 місяців тому +8961

    I'm Japanese. Even more terrifying is that an increasing number of Japanese people recently claim that Unit 731 was just a quarantine unit and didn't commit any atrocities, saying the stories were made up by Chinese. It's very shameful and disgusting.

    • @blokvader8283
      @blokvader8283 7 місяців тому +686

      So many modern facts about the human body are a result of Unit 731, like the temperature to boil a human and shit like that, so how the hell do people justify that knowledge existing without these atrocities?

    • @anather7073
      @anather7073 7 місяців тому +87

      Thanks for your country's contribution for such precious research

    • @Rain-mw9du
      @Rain-mw9du 7 місяців тому +549

      ​@@anather7073why are u putting it like it's his fault lmao

    • @seijin5478
      @seijin5478 7 місяців тому

      @@anather7073what

    • @epicstyle160
      @epicstyle160 7 місяців тому

      "Recently", it's been like this since forever. It's honestly insane Japanese people think they still have the right to dislike the Chinese after everything they've done and continue to do.
      They've still barely apologized to Korea.
      They don't teach this stuff in Japanese schools. Country is a joke

  • @JonSudano
    @JonSudano 10 місяців тому +21709

    The fact that someone in a lab coat could set someone on fire and watch as they die screaming can just go "Huh." and take notes is insane

    • @user-cf6fo6bj1u
      @user-cf6fo6bj1u 10 місяців тому +481

      I can’t fathom that

    • @Dan_Kanerva
      @Dan_Kanerva 10 місяців тому +586

      well, the worldview of someone who watches youtube videos and works a regular job is V E R Y different from people growing up in the middle of one of the worse wars ever

    • @billy6044
      @billy6044 10 місяців тому +671

      Apparently the subject didn’t like it

    • @mineantoine1248
      @mineantoine1248 10 місяців тому +332

      ​@@billy6044i need proof to believe that

    • @animalhalo5984
      @animalhalo5984 10 місяців тому +455

      Huh if you slowly drain a body of all the blood and hack it apart with various blades the person dies…who knew

  • @mark_lgaming6565
    @mark_lgaming6565 5 місяців тому +6228

    People don’t usually talk about Japan in the same vein as Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy in terms of their atrocities against humanity, but they absolutely deserve to be mentioned in those same conversations.

    • @GrabsackWheatnut
      @GrabsackWheatnut 5 місяців тому

      Italy is the lesser of those evils tbh, they didn't do ethnic cleansing, they didnt have an idea of ethnic superiority, during mussolinis reign he killed just over 12000 people through government means, over 22 years that he ruled, and 1/3 of the Jewish population was in the fascist party, the italians just wanted to be a world power and thought Germany was the way to do it

    • @lucasisofdarkness5423
      @lucasisofdarkness5423 5 місяців тому +128

      Yup. Its annoying.

    • @drunkkillerwhalesdriving
      @drunkkillerwhalesdriving 5 місяців тому +592

      the romanticism and fetish culture surrounding japan has made so many people forget the atrocities they have committed. as a korean person, it causes me pain knowing my great grandmother went through so much and japan refuses to acknowledge it

    • @JK-gm6kk
      @JK-gm6kk 5 місяців тому

      ​@@drunkkillerwhalesdrivingwe are not a proud race. It's not a race at all.

    • @compatriot852
      @compatriot852 4 місяці тому +121

      And then there's the Soviets which commited atrocities for even longer after the war with most of the perpetrators never being held responsible

  • @blazinkatana4561
    @blazinkatana4561 4 місяці тому +2429

    The fact he opened up a sponsor by dressing like the unibomber is crazy 💀

    • @familiarodriguez5746
      @familiarodriguez5746 4 місяці тому +78

      Right ? It feels like we are in a movie if we died the worst way possible some youtuber would talk about me while telling us to download shadow legendds its embarrassing and disrespectful

    • @Nexus_Simulations
      @Nexus_Simulations 4 місяці тому +144

      ​@@familiarodriguez5746I think this was all satirical. Not actually meant to make fun of anyone.

    • @thereal_hannahmontana
      @thereal_hannahmontana 4 місяці тому +77

      It felt satirical and as an “Easter egg” since he had a video regarding Ted Kaczynski released recently after this video. Maybe not the best in terms of how it was done, but I don’t think he purposefully meant any disrespect or making fun of anyone

    • @cjwitachop
      @cjwitachop 2 місяці тому

      @@familiarodriguez5746shit was funny shut up

    • @jedd.0322
      @jedd.0322 2 місяці тому

      ​​@@familiarodriguez5746you suck 😅😅😅

  • @marvininabox
    @marvininabox 11 місяців тому +9888

    Crazy how every detail of German atrocity is common knowledge, but things like this occurring simultaneously in Japan are almost occult knowledge

    • @ghost-user559
      @ghost-user559 11 місяців тому +110

      USA, Russia, China ect

    • @patriarchs.9237
      @patriarchs.9237 11 місяців тому

      Cause most of the ones about germans are made up

    • @itnotmeitu3896
      @itnotmeitu3896 11 місяців тому +262

      @@koolaidman4869 the Germans post ww2 were exterminated in Poland and königsburg, too.

    • @kiz3296
      @kiz3296 11 місяців тому

      @@koolaidman4869 Very surreal to hear Wendigoon mention the atomic bombing so casually as if it were 'the event which ended the horrific war' whilst denouncing other horrific acts. Shows how effective the west's narrative rewriting of war atrocities has become and how they posthumously posited themselves as hero's after the death of the Nazi regime instead of being just as bad if not worse.

    • @Azazantei
      @Azazantei 11 місяців тому

      ​@@itnotmeitu3896 Hell the Germans were even raped by the Soviets.

  • @Offline219
    @Offline219 11 місяців тому +8419

    The fact that this atrocity was almost lost to history makes me wonder about all the horrors that _were_ lost and maybe even the horrible things going on right now that we may never know about. It's terrifying.

    • @sirboogie8853
      @sirboogie8853 11 місяців тому +70

      Were*

    • @krystalgardiner5591
      @krystalgardiner5591 11 місяців тому +145

      What do you think those Jabs were for the past few years. They were trying to keep the data on those shots hidden for 75 years!

    • @rhondaharp6168
      @rhondaharp6168 11 місяців тому +192

      Check out what the Chinese are doing to Wuigars right now

    • @moonbeetle0417
      @moonbeetle0417 11 місяців тому

      That’s exactly what I was thinking. I mean just look at all the CIA and FBI documents that have been released over time. MK Ultra, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Operation Northwood, etc etc.
      There is so much going on in the background that we can’t even comprehend. I wonder how many “lumber mills” and “medical research” facilities today are just fronts for something like this. How many horrible acts are actually orchestrated, or allowed to happen in order to push an agenda/idea. I guess only time will tell.

    • @rhondaharp6168
      @rhondaharp6168 11 місяців тому +112

      @@shatteredteethofgod bless your heart. I hope you feel better now that you've chastised a total stranger on the internet.
      And in other news, I could care less about your opinion

  • @onlygalactic1744
    @onlygalactic1744 5 місяців тому +949

    Japan: wow USA took this too far with nuclear weapons and killing our civilians.
    Also Japan:

    • @irelandaintreal2945
      @irelandaintreal2945 5 місяців тому +136

      both can be true at the same time. fucking crazy how anybody ever thought that either action was even mildly okay. blows my mind.

    • @silverfang6869
      @silverfang6869 5 місяців тому +12

      @@irelandaintreal2945what’s blow my mind is that people is surprised that events like this happen is called evolution it have happens from the beginning only deference is the tools just got more advanced

    • @pntballer4life01
      @pntballer4life01 2 місяці тому

      I mean, the U.S. did admit that if they hadn’t surrendered they were planning on dropping up to 12 more nukes.
      Fuck around and find out I guess.

    • @faejoifea
      @faejoifea Місяць тому +3

      Unlike the atomic bomb, there is no evidence of 731.

    • @yous2244
      @yous2244 Місяць тому +14

      Both are true

  • @seangambone8534
    @seangambone8534 3 місяці тому +527

    As depraved as it is, the worst of anything is that we think that governments won't do it again.

    • @Shugg-Goff-HHoffical
      @Shugg-Goff-HHoffical 2 місяці тому +29

      I know they just change thier tactics. Same as it ever was.

    • @kyleedwards8064
      @kyleedwards8064 Місяць тому

      Well now instead of rounding people up and forcing them to get sterilized, they are doing it to themselves voluntarily now

    • @S8tan7
      @S8tan7 Місяць тому +25

      As they love to say "if you think the government wouldn't do that, yes they absolutely would"

    • @faejoifea
      @faejoifea Місяць тому

      You must be Chinese. The Chinese are in denial about the horrific things being done in Uyghur. This is very terrible. And there are few videos related to Uyghur.

    • @faejoifea
      @faejoifea Місяць тому

      The U.S. investigated but could find no evidence. Let's not be fooled by the wrong video.

  • @elturtle4739
    @elturtle4739 11 місяців тому +3140

    The horrible thing is that we don’t have survivor perspectives. Only perspectives from the abusers, who I’m sure omitted the more cruel details beyond what they deemed to be the broad, cleaner description.

    • @LichtdesMorgens
      @LichtdesMorgens 11 місяців тому +174

      True, imagine what we would know about the Holocaust if just the told the story

    • @deirdrejones5974
      @deirdrejones5974 11 місяців тому +56

      I believe there is a memorial/museum in China. I’m sure they have first hand accounts on display there.

    • @RAAM855
      @RAAM855 11 місяців тому

      ​@@LichtdesMorgens everyone knew what was happening at the time because the allies were constantly using Ariel recon and could infiltrate Germany much easily In the chaos of the war. The problem here is that China is a very big country and there's no easy way for western allies to fly over it or send a spy in Japanese occupied land cause yknow. A white guy in east Asia stands out like a sore thumb. And the U.S didn't trust Asian Americans enough to have them on those sort of agencies at the time.

    • @multilang8624
      @multilang8624 11 місяців тому +184

      In a way it feels like these people were robbed of their humanity even posthumously because they didnt even get to tell their own stories. We know the clean cut facts of what happened but have no human voices to put to those experiences. In there those people had thoughts and feelings, fears, things they’d want to tell loved ones or the general public yet they were wiped off the map like they didnt matter taking those thoughts with them. Now they’re just facts and numbers to history, not stories. It was the final act of cruelty

    • @drewl5221
      @drewl5221 11 місяців тому +38

      History is written by the victors.

  • @kosmickalamity7071
    @kosmickalamity7071 11 місяців тому +4931

    Crazy that he got a raid sponsor for one of the least advertiser friendly topics he could possibly cover

    • @dRac_XII
      @dRac_XII 11 місяців тому +541

      it’s raid bro we ain’t surprised

    • @Changed.User100
      @Changed.User100 11 місяців тому +49

      LOLLL nahh they deadd fr

    • @lrodshrek6086
      @lrodshrek6086 11 місяців тому +328

      I don’t think raid has any standards

    • @alphaprimus7794
      @alphaprimus7794 11 місяців тому +232

      "..and the past has shown that humanity is no stranger to, and will more than happily, commit unspeakable acts of horror upon itself, for reasons seemingly unknowable.
      ..speaking of atrocious acts of horrors that mankind is more than willing to commit upon itself for reasons seemingly unknowable, today's video is sponsored by RAID Shadow Legends."

    • @NegitoroIsBestShip
      @NegitoroIsBestShip 11 місяців тому +136

      You got it backwards, RAID was the only sponsor he could get for this one.

  • @Crystalrose829
    @Crystalrose829 Місяць тому +502

    I learned about the atrocities of Unit 731 in one of my Japanese classes in college (taught by a native Japanese woman, born and raised in Tokyo). I later wrote an essay on it for my history of Japan class with a different professor, so this was more of something I was just watching because "oh yeah that's something I'm familiar with" and I enjoy Wendigoon's videos, but...honestly? There's some context missing from this that makes the actions of Unit 731 way, way worse.
    It's not even that the people working at Unit 731 were "uneducated" or "tricked by their government". They knew full well what they were doing. What people don't seem to realize is that Japan has a history-and at the time was having an extremely strong period-of nationalism. Japan is actually the *only* Asian country to be considered a first world fully developed state. China and Korea are actually still developing (I've studied this as I double minored in International Studies in college). And I'm not saying that as something negative against Korea or China, but Japan went through rapid industrialization during the Meiji Era (from 1868 to 1912, or around the Victorian England Era if that helps contextualize it for you). During that period and *beyond* , Japan looked at Western cultures and deemed them "superior" compared to their fellow Eastern countries. There's even an essay written around this time titled "Goodbye Asia" that I read for one of my Japanese classes wherein the author *literally calls people from China and Korea savages for their beliefs and way of life?* Like think of how European colonizers treated Native Americans, and that's...pretty similar.
    Essentially what I'm getting at is that Japan had been viewing their Asian neighbors as "below" them, and wanted to be seen as equal to European/Western countries. Unfortunately this...didn't actually work out so well for Japan considering racism is alive and well, so while Japan could consider itself "civilized", Western countries were like "umm, you're Asian tho :/" Please note that Japan has this horrible horrible history as well of being *incredibly* racist towards anyone not viewed as "pure Japanese."
    I'm sure many people have heard of the "comfort women" during WWII as well-Korean women who were taken from their homeland to serve as a way to...put delicately...curb the urge of Japanese soldiers to have sex with random women. There's plenty of controversy around this, including people who still claim to this day that the comfort women either did it willingly or their families were "properly compensated." I think after watching this video alone, you'll get an idea of how bullshit that claim is. Children of these women would also later be discriminated against for being only half-Japanese, and similarly Korean immigrants and their children were murdered because of some "blood purity" culture. It's genuinely not so far off from the "superior Aryan race" ideology of Nazi Germany, which makes you realize how these two powers were able to work together so well.
    But that dehumanization of their neighbors (be that from China, Korea, or any of the Soviet states), made it so much easier to commit these atrocities. Dehumanization is literally the first step of oppression, and if you don't view your subjects as humans (see: referring to them as "logs") it allows you to do what these researchers did. It's horrifying, and to me it's even more horrifying that we'll talk about things Nazi scientists did but Unit 731 is rarely covered.
    Just a small disclaimer at the end of this for a couple things: Japan does still have serious issues with acknowledging what it did wrong during WWII. But that isn't a reflection of the Japanese population as a whole. While Japan's culture is much more collectivist (compared to many Western individualist societies), reducing a country down to beliefs that aren't shared by everyone is narrow-minded and fails to recognize that no culture is a monolith. However, the issues of racism and failure to acknowledge accountability are still prevalent even today. If people speak against the use of the "rising sun" flag of Imperial Japan, you should listen to them, because for many Chinese and Korean people, it's the equivalent of seeing a Swastika.
    Other disclaimer: Wendigoon did a fantastic job covering this subject, and it's literally just the "I know about this" part of me that wanted to add some additional context. I definitely don't want anyone thinking that the researchers were just misguided or coming away with the misconception that they were uneducated when it's quite the opposite. If you read this whole essay of a comment, thanks! Hope you learned something. Sorry for leaving such a long comment too on a months old video...

    • @sky30p75
      @sky30p75 Місяць тому +48

      I genuinely enjoyed reading this comment. I like to hear perspectives from around the world and just other perspectives in general. Thanks for sharing

    • @eduardoribeiroucv9630
      @eduardoribeiroucv9630 27 днів тому +18

      I'm from Brazil and your comment is as relevant as Wendigoon video itself. Thank you very much for sharing your references and point of view. Stay safe!

    • @user-kg1jx8jw8k
      @user-kg1jx8jw8k 24 дні тому +8

      受益匪浅❤

    • @Soundless_life
      @Soundless_life 23 дні тому +20

      Wow thanks for your input, and I like how you had to make it clear that they did in fact know what they were doing. I also like how you brought to light the mentioning of comfort women in Japan, and how Japan has yet to acknowledge any of its war atrocities. You made a well informed mini thesis, and it was quite interesting to read.

    • @user-ut7mz3nu5m
      @user-ut7mz3nu5m 17 днів тому

      Thanks for sharing!I hadn't seen that unique point of view.

  • @ocker58
    @ocker58 Місяць тому +107

    It's insane to think that this was almost completely lost to history, it makes you wonder what other horrid things are just entirely unknown

    • @vincentsun886
      @vincentsun886 Місяць тому +4

      Chinese has all the archives, but nobody listened

    • @user-cq1lk9zp6s
      @user-cq1lk9zp6s 15 днів тому

      ​@@vincentsun886Yes, both the Japanese Government and Western governments are using the media to try to cover up these crazy and cruel historical facts. Even Japanese history textbooks rarely mention the fact that they invaded during World War II. What is even more ridiculous is that Japanese history is an optional course. They want to play down people's memories of this history in order to create a positive image of them. From the current behavior of the Japanese Government can also be seen, the nuclear waste water into the sea pollution of the entire Earth is harmful to the interests of all humanity.

  • @NotRealPhil
    @NotRealPhil 11 місяців тому +34661

    Ah yes, another calming bedtime story from Wendi

    • @anthonyevangelisti9296
      @anthonyevangelisti9296 11 місяців тому +91

      What country r u from

    • @toastytoast9800
      @toastytoast9800 11 місяців тому +359

      i wouldn't say this one is gonna be calming boss

    • @ingobutseverelydiseased
      @ingobutseverelydiseased 11 місяців тому +30

      fr

    • @NotRealPhil
      @NotRealPhil 11 місяців тому +193

      @@anthonyevangelisti9296 I work third shift fym

    • @PainKillerOverdose
      @PainKillerOverdose 11 місяців тому +217

      Actually though.. was laying down after graveyards and thought “Of course the Goon is going to drop another banger to spice up my dreams.”

  • @Elpresidente98
    @Elpresidente98 11 місяців тому +3690

    World War 2 really was the darkest period in Human history. Between Unit 731 and the Holocaust, it's really depressing to know that people are capable of such barbarism and pure evil. May the victims rest in peace.

    • @joedagg4495
      @joedagg4495 11 місяців тому +235

      I just find it terrifying that this type of shit really didn't happen very long ago.

    • @LIKEICARE84
      @LIKEICARE84 11 місяців тому +176

      Don't forget Stalin and his shennanigans

    • @artorhen
      @artorhen 11 місяців тому +77

      This is just the tip of the iceberg of the things that took place in that period

    • @richardmcgowan1651
      @richardmcgowan1651 11 місяців тому +48

      Well the issue with this is that while its easy to find what happened during Holocaust and the people that carried out those horrible acts. You will find it hard to find out just how bad the Japanese were in the regions they fought in. Especially to people not Japanese. The sad part of all this was how America helped the efforts to protect certain people within Japan after WW2. Something that's only really coming to light.

    • @charlesk22
      @charlesk22 11 місяців тому +25

      Abu ghraib, MKULTRA

  • @ItsJustT
    @ItsJustT 5 місяців тому +330

    fucked up how they experiment on pregnant women. Imagine coping by developing an attachment to your child just for you or them to die to a disease

    • @faejoifea
      @faejoifea Місяць тому

      You must be Chinese. The Chinese are in denial about the horrific things being done in Uyghur. This is very terrible. And there are few videos related to Uyghur.

    • @faejoifea
      @faejoifea Місяць тому

      The U.S. investigated but could find no evidence. Let's not be fooled by the wrong video.

    • @l0v3lymia
      @l0v3lymia Місяць тому +25

      IT WAS FUCKED UP HOW THEY EXPERIMENTED WITH ANYBODY !!!

    • @faejoifea
      @faejoifea Місяць тому +1

      Yes, China is experimenting on the Uyghurs.

    • @LegendGamer-dj8om
      @LegendGamer-dj8om 29 днів тому +1

      @@l0v3lymiathat’s subjective

  • @Anino_Makata
    @Anino_Makata 17 днів тому +36

    The fact that Unit 731 nearly got away with being forgotten to history is troubling. Because what mistakes we neglect will eventually repeat itself, in one way or another. Thinking on the paradigm of the Unit being created and operating just a couple lifetimes ago, not even a century behind us... the chilling notion that had we not been reminded of their atrocities meant seeing another form of Unit 731 in our time on Earth is harrowing.

    • @brotbrotsen1100
      @brotbrotsen1100 13 днів тому +1

      I mean, no matter how much they tried to sell this as "science experiments" it sounds more like a excuse to just torture. And as good as the repeating of history quote is, i don't believe we ever learn to not repeat it, if we remember or not.

  • @meliybelly
    @meliybelly 9 місяців тому +3248

    It’s so disgusting how the Japanese government has covered this up. Not to mention that so many citizens aren’t even aware of these tragedies

    • @dianebarclay3919
      @dianebarclay3919 8 місяців тому

      Look into japanese internment camps in north america.

    • @Scar3crowss
      @Scar3crowss 8 місяців тому +188

      Completely. I thought the things the Nazis did was bad enough, but at least Germany owned up to that.

    • @Sillimant_
      @Sillimant_ 8 місяців тому +7

      @@Scar3crowssgermany was partially right though

    • @Scar3crowss
      @Scar3crowss 8 місяців тому +84

      @@Sillimant_ Right in what way?

    • @1984isnotamanual
      @1984isnotamanual 8 місяців тому +5

      I think there is an element of “well we expect other races to act like savages but the white civilized germans knew better” attitude in this

  • @samanthacarbine3151
    @samanthacarbine3151 8 місяців тому +3423

    The line “they determined that children had a lower tolerance to it than adults” made me realize they actually were just doing the most unnecessary evil ever having been done. 22:36

    • @lucy.jba5
      @lucy.jba5 8 місяців тому +56

      same, i feel sick

    • @tacoexpressSEEDEEholeeveryones
      @tacoexpressSEEDEEholeeveryones 7 місяців тому +11

      Would you consider leaving on 2 tables lamps with 2 different types of bulbs and seeing which lamp burns out first, an experiment?,;:

    • @jayce1850
      @jayce1850 7 місяців тому +366

      @@tacoexpressSEEDEEholeeveryones people arent lamps wtf

    • @kevinuriarte2072
      @kevinuriarte2072 7 місяців тому +256

      Comparing literal objects that are not alive to human beings is almost crazy

    • @inquisitorvelisvel7665
      @inquisitorvelisvel7665 7 місяців тому

      Children’s immune systems work faster than an adult’s so diseases work differently on em.
      Covid-19 is a good example showing more adult deaths against younger people. Almost no children died from covid and the ones that did die is because they had a concurrent disease other than Covid-19.

  • @jedi4canes
    @jedi4canes 3 місяці тому +85

    This is the perfect example of the reason we study history
    We study history because if we don't remember the evil, it is inevitable to repeat.

    • @someonesilence3731
      @someonesilence3731 3 дні тому

      I fear even that is not good enouge to avoid repeating it.

    • @jedi4canes
      @jedi4canes 3 дні тому

      @someonesilence3731 maybe not, but it will always help us recognize it and put a stop to it fastrr if it happens again

  • @Shinde425
    @Shinde425 4 місяці тому +98

    Each one of these horrible things was someone’s actual fate. We watch horror films, but these people experienced them. It’s surreal

  • @JayDonagh
    @JayDonagh 11 місяців тому +3845

    They interviewed a lot of former Unit 731 members who were willing to admit what they had done. It's a strange contrast watching these friendly-looking, harmless elderly Japanese men talk about cutting people open or worse. Some of them claim to be haunted by what they had done, but also justify it and claim they were following orders. These guys went on to live very normal lives, had children and grandchildren, and probably went peacefully with their loved ones by their side. As opposed to the people they killed.

    • @jeremiahm3765
      @jeremiahm3765 11 місяців тому +713

      Justifying their actions with "following orders" is probably just denial, and probably why they didn't off themselves, assuming they actually regretted anything.

    • @itbeWOLFLINGS
      @itbeWOLFLINGS 11 місяців тому +324

      Although not at all comparable in harm, I got the same feeling watching the post-experiment interviews of the Stanford Prison participants. The cruel guards went right back to being normal college students afterwards. It's disturbing what the average person is capable of and it's even more disturbing not knowing what even ourselves would do in certain circumstances.

    • @JayDonagh
      @JayDonagh 11 місяців тому +296

      @@jeremiahm3765 I think at a certain point, unless you're completely unremorseful, you had to find some sort of rationalization to cope with what you did. The hard truth is a lot of the people involved with Unit 731 were fairly normal individuals. Some of them reported shaking at first and having very human reactions when told they had to cut people open, yet they admitted they felt less about it after. The higher-ups in Unit 731 were literally evil and none of them admitted any guilt or wrongdoing, even believing themselves to have benefitted their nation by their actions

    • @VidelxSpopovich
      @VidelxSpopovich 11 місяців тому +10

      They were heroes.

    • @azrielsatan8693
      @azrielsatan8693 11 місяців тому +80

      ​@Emmanuel Goldstein glad to see your so willing to join the prisoners in getting tortured and killed. This is imperial Japan; there is no not going along with it; you either do or you die.

  • @DoryLiu
    @DoryLiu 11 місяців тому +4043

    As a Chinese, I learnt this from elementary school. But when studied abroad I just found the fact of 731 has not been discussed enough as it should be. The most unsettling part is that many senior officials of Japanese government still will go to temples to pray for the past generals who committed these crime. But thank you for spreading this and make the world be alarmed about the dark side of humanity.

    • @tvre0
      @tvre0 11 місяців тому +270

      You’re also not allowed to apologize publicly in japan for imperial japan’s atrocities. Well, you could, but you get backlash.

    • @jdb9129
      @jdb9129 11 місяців тому

      I'm an American and it's a shame that some people praise evil people in my country as well. It wasn't until a few years ago, they finally started taking down the statues of Confederate leaders and some schools changing their school name for the same reason.
      There was a statue of Nathan Bedford Forest. The guy that created the KKK. It wouldn't be much different than Germany having a statue of Hitler. I'm just happy that humanity has been going in the right direction, for the most part.

    • @jc_47
      @jc_47 11 місяців тому +377

      Fucking sucks how the Gen Z Japanese are innocently clueless that they're being invited to the Yasukuni Shrine without knowing that they're actually honoring A class war criminals since the senior citizens kept manipulating them. I'll forever hate Imperial Japan though, especially Tojo who started this shit

    • @YuRrRrRYeEeEeE
      @YuRrRrRYeEeEeE 11 місяців тому

      Going to those temples honors all Japanese war dead from the samurai to the ww2 dead it’s doubtful they go just to honor the war criminals.

    • @butterbean2257
      @butterbean2257 11 місяців тому

      So gross the US granted the scientists involved immunity (just so they could learn their “trade secrets”) and tried their best to coverup unit 731. The US used bio weapons in Korea. Go read about it.

  • @Lunarfly_streams
    @Lunarfly_streams 5 місяців тому +295

    Its been really interesting seeing how Japanese pop culture seems to be slowly recognizing a lot of its country's dark historical events and wanting to break away from the relative silence of it- makes me wonder about if Resident Evil had any inspiration as a cautionary tale

  • @dennismortberg2591
    @dennismortberg2591 4 місяці тому +97

    Don't think that we're separated from this level of evil by time. Many people still have grandparents who were alive when these experiments took place. The world is still capable of this horror and people are still capable of going along with it.

  • @kennardswrld3900
    @kennardswrld3900 11 місяців тому +4608

    Thanks for bringing light to this. My great grandfather died in unit 731. The response from the Japanese government and western media to this tragedy has been horrible compared to other incidents in the past. Rest in peace to all that died in unit 731.

    • @Quesoquantum
      @Quesoquantum 11 місяців тому +229

      They didn't respond. They just pushed it under the rug like every irresponsible person.

    • @kennardswrld3900
      @kennardswrld3900 11 місяців тому +364

      @@Quesoquantum the fact that they acknowledge its existence but have yet to apologize or do anything about it says everything

    • @disser3849
      @disser3849 11 місяців тому +79

      Well tbf US ended up dropping two nukes on the bastards and essentially ended up colonizing the whole country and recreating their culture, which is more than any apology could ever do.

    • @trashman11
      @trashman11 11 місяців тому

      @@disser3849 you fuck up our boat we drop two suns on you, get wrecked

    • @jyorgbjornsen
      @jyorgbjornsen 11 місяців тому +53

      If it's any consolation, Japan is going the way of the dodo and God has cursed them with anime.

  • @XeniaChow
    @XeniaChow 11 місяців тому +3554

    I am ethnically Chinese, but was born and had lived in Japan from age 5-13. If I remember correctly, they start teaching history at grade 4, but the weird thing is, unlike Germany, they never teach you about the atrocities committed by the militarist regime at all. If anything, all they taught were the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the firebombing of Tokyo, as well as the Nanking Massacre, which was simply described in textbooks as an "unfortunate incident". Basically, by whitewashing history and leaving out important bits like the Unit 731 and comfort women, the Japanese government would like its youth to think that Japan was not the perpetrator, but solely a victim of WWII.
    If you know about the history of Japan, you will definitely be aware of their adherence to the virtue that is "honor". However, in the case of history, their sense of honor is so strong that they would sacrifice truth in order to protect it, and as of now, the Japanese governments have yet to issue any apology of any kind, and have, on many separate occasions, insisted that Japan was a mere victim of Imperalism just like China and South Korea (both of which Japan had invaded), which I find quite infuriating. However, despite their adamant refusal to say sorry and their denial of history, there are still people who resist it and spread the truth. So thank you, Wendigoon, for being one of those people, for taking part in the preservation of history so it will never be forgotten. And to those who are currently watching this video, I hope you can gain a better understanding of history, and why the Eastern/South-east Asian countries and Japan are still not entirely on good terms. And, perhaps more importantly, I sincerely hope that by learning about the past and the sheer horror and the suffering and trauma that had been unleashed upon this world, we will learn learn to avoid these mistakes, to seek peace and not conflict, to love and not to hate, and to be perhaps just a little bit kinder to one another. If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.❤

    • @thegamewasriggedfromthestart
      @thegamewasriggedfromthestart 11 місяців тому +207

      >Chinese
      >Surprised history gets scrubbed
      Boy, have i got news for you

    • @user-jd1qh8tq1j
      @user-jd1qh8tq1j 11 місяців тому +317

      @@thegamewasriggedfromthestart you are very funny

    • @pirilon78
      @pirilon78 11 місяців тому +100

      ​@@thegamewasriggedfromthestart 😐

    • @virtchuual8041
      @virtchuual8041 11 місяців тому +107

      @@thegamewasriggedfromthestart wow hilarious

    • @youngminpark3173
      @youngminpark3173 11 місяців тому +187

      @@thegamewasriggedfromthestart you can talk about both. it's not like disliking one thing excludes disliking another

  • @ComradeInspector
    @ComradeInspector 5 місяців тому +63

    6:07 The Mongolians did this during their reign of terror. They launched decaying bodies over the walls of their enemies to cause panic and…infection. Terrifying stuff.

  • @movmentztv5189
    @movmentztv5189 2 місяці тому +17

    The pregnant women, children and babys is the most heartbreaking of it all. to harm a child is insane

  • @purrincesskitty2774
    @purrincesskitty2774 10 місяців тому +2314

    the sheer level of respect shown to the victims and events in the first few minutes followed immediately by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS had me dying LMAO

    • @GenghisClaus
      @GenghisClaus 9 місяців тому +118

      the rest of the story had a lot of other people dying

    • @purrincesskitty2774
      @purrincesskitty2774 9 місяців тому +21

      @@GenghisClaus HEY-O

    • @SCP-173peanut
      @SCP-173peanut 9 місяців тому +13

      ​@@GenghisClausbro😭

    • @user-fk9jn7ed1q
      @user-fk9jn7ed1q 9 місяців тому +11

      ​@@GenghisClaus STOP

    • @abyssalpen9663
      @abyssalpen9663 8 місяців тому +19

      Full respect to the victims and their families and the situation as a whole, but a video like this 5000% got demonetized immediately, and Raid has that fat whale money.

  • @juliewisener6748
    @juliewisener6748 11 місяців тому +2903

    I think one of the scariest things about this is how calculated and formulaic it is. These were highly educated and most likely highly intelligent horrible people. They knew exactly what they were doing, and continued to deliberately torture human beings for decades.

    • @wolftamer5463
      @wolftamer5463 10 місяців тому

      After all, to them this was just another "experiment". Just a log, no different to a lab rat. "If I do this, what will happen?" Easy to be cold and calculating when you don't even see your test subjects as human anymore.

    • @heidiwilkes1
      @heidiwilkes1 10 місяців тому +94

      For their own sick pleasure & having permission to do so just made it worse, smh 😔

    • @smokeonthewater5287
      @smokeonthewater5287 10 місяців тому

      Just like with covid vaccines. Huge planned crime on a global level. And the coverup on the spread from the gain of function financed by Fauci.

    • @darkmatter9643
      @darkmatter9643 10 місяців тому +19

      The banality of evil

    • @azmoz
      @azmoz 10 місяців тому +26

      You are giving them way to much credit. The US got every result with their experiments and absolutely nothing of value was really discovered

  • @foxwhistle
    @foxwhistle 3 місяці тому +49

    I learned about this because of My Hero Academia. One of the main antagonists of that series, Kyudai Garaki, was originally named Maruta Shiga in his debut chapter. After only 1 week of the chapter's release, the name was quickly changed and the Mangaka, Horikoshi Kohei, apologized for the insensitive nature of the character.

  • @Joeyisagonnawin
    @Joeyisagonnawin 24 дні тому +14

    7:11 For some reason, I imagined this like a card game.
    "I wager Biological warfare."
    "I see your Biological warfare and raise you one Nuclear warfare."
    "I fold."

  • @magicman9552
    @magicman9552 11 місяців тому +2761

    No matter how atrocious a war crime is, "harrowing" always feels like an adequate word to describe the experiences of the victims. This is the only example I can think of that this word seems inappropriately mild. I feel like we don't even have the language to describe how horrific this whole thing was.

    • @yyeezyy630
      @yyeezyy630 11 місяців тому +4

      You’ve never heard of the holocaust I’m guessing

    • @DerAlleinTiger
      @DerAlleinTiger 11 місяців тому +306

      @@yyeezyy630 The Holocaust was worse in terms of scale, but... no, I'm not going to lie, Unit 731 was worse in terms of just absolute brutality and cruelty. That's not to downplay the acts of cruelty done in death camps across Europe, but rather 731 was just even worse.

    • @matthewglaaser4286
      @matthewglaaser4286 11 місяців тому +28

      I would say hellish or living hell

    • @PickledPear
      @PickledPear 11 місяців тому +108

      ​@@yyeezyy630 yes, it was harrowing, but just think how we dont even have any survivors from these experiments. Brutal, cruel and unusual fall short to describe what went on here

    • @magicman9552
      @magicman9552 11 місяців тому +33

      @@matthewglaaser4286 I think that could fit, but it's mostly used as hyperbole. If hell is real, this must be what it would look like

  • @notyourdaddude1957
    @notyourdaddude1957 10 місяців тому +4132

    What's even more sickening is that despite all the crimes they commited, the whole unit including Shiro Ishii himself were literally granted immunity by US government and they walked free from what they did.
    They never got punished for this

    • @Compton3clipsed
      @Compton3clipsed 10 місяців тому +71

      I mean....maybe they specifically never got punished, but those pardons came after Japan got absolutely punished for their wartime behavior with a couple of famous bombs you may have heard of. When peace is on the table after what people went through in WWII......they probably didn't track every person individually before pardoning them.

    • @Tearlach
      @Tearlach 10 місяців тому +526

      @@Compton3clipsedExcept the pardons were granted knowing EXACTLY what had occurred. The pardons were granted in exchange for the research data. It wasn’t a case of blanket pardoning and some war criminals sneaking through the cracks, they were expressly, deliberately pardoned on the grounds that they would hand over their research.

    • @Compton3clipsed
      @Compton3clipsed 10 місяців тому +61

      @@Tearlach Yeah, shit happens in wartime. Sorry if you are just learning that sometimes opportunity presents itself and hard decisions are made.

    • @sarabear8087
      @sarabear8087 9 місяців тому +14

      Not in this life at least

    • @TTFerdinand
      @TTFerdinand 9 місяців тому

      @@Tearlach I think the point was that it WASN'T known exactly what had occurred. Not until the research data had been at least translated and sifted through, taking a few years at best or rather a few decades. You'd have to take into account that there was many years worth of research data, Americans can't read Japanese, there were many more intelligence and other documents waiting to be translated and there were not so many translators with Top Secret clearance to do the job.

  • @user-ie2ui4uj1b
    @user-ie2ui4uj1b 29 днів тому +26

    Harbin Unit 731
    Jilin 100 troops
    Guangzhou 8604 Unit
    Nanjing Rongzi 1644 Unit
    North China Force 1855
    Qiqihar Unit 516
    Gangzi 9420 Unit
    Rusy Bacteria War
    Don‘t forget the shame of the country, the hatred of the country, the deep hatred of the sea of blood, and never forget it.

  • @GorggW
    @GorggW Місяць тому +15

    "RAID SHADOW LEGENDS" most INSANE plot twist I've ever witnessed

  • @johndoe6188
    @johndoe6188 7 місяців тому +633

    What gets me is that the "scientists" who were able to walk free with minimal to no punishment simply, moved on.
    Men with the knowledge of how to dismember, mutilate, rape, torture and slaughter men, women and children without thought just transitioned back into society, strangers laid eyes on them with no knowledge of what they'd done, it's terrifying when monsters can look like you and i, and you'd never know.

    • @phoneaccount206
      @phoneaccount206 3 місяці тому +9

      Lmao we’ll welcome to everyday life. You don’t really know anybody or what they’ve done. So done assume everyone is the same. Imagine that

    • @MD-cy8uj
      @MD-cy8uj Місяць тому

      Those are called war veterans.

    • @johndoe6188
      @johndoe6188 Місяць тому +9

      @MD-cy8uj That's an ignorant statement. War is beyond words, but to limit everyone involved to such vulgar words is disrespectful.

    • @gravity5903
      @gravity5903 Місяць тому +5

      A wolf in sheeps clothing

    • @johndoe6188
      @johndoe6188 Місяць тому

      @@phoneaccount206 Well*

  • @pandapoodle1
    @pandapoodle1 7 місяців тому +2174

    I heard a commentary about this which was disturbing. The person said that a lot of these people were normal people who went home to their wives and children at the end of the day after doing these things. I think that's the most disturbing thing about this, the people who did these things didn't see it as wrong. People can be very evil.

    • @blokvader8283
      @blokvader8283 7 місяців тому +189

      Good God, the mental image of someone freezing a baby to death and then punching a time card to go home is just awful.

    • @boratumaumabora
      @boratumaumabora 7 місяців тому

      It says much to us about the banality of evil. Not every evil is done by cartoonish monsters, much of it os perpetrated by simple bureaucrats following orders without question.

    • @JosephineVannoy
      @JosephineVannoy 6 місяців тому +40

      The thing is that they did know it was wrong they just didn't care

    • @zoeb3573
      @zoeb3573 6 місяців тому +105

      @@blokvader8283 Not just that, freezing a baby to death and then coming back home to their own baby. How do you ever look at your infant son or daughter normally again after doing such things to another child?

    • @steviechubbs5238
      @steviechubbs5238 5 місяців тому

      ​@@zoeb3573the Japanese felt they were the 'superior' Asian race, and the ones to dominate the continent. They saw (especially at this point) the Chinese and Koreans as 'lesser peoples' whom didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. In their minds, it's probably no different to those cheesy sci-fi movies where the US government dissects aliens, but in real life

  • @barebones_music115
    @barebones_music115 4 місяці тому +46

    "These war crimes are sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends"

  • @OkayLlama
    @OkayLlama 4 місяці тому +20

    The thing you brought up about the Japanese guy also being tested on shows that a lot of people dont even believe in dehumanisation, they know their target is human but they just use it as an excuse.

  • @wavular
    @wavular 10 місяців тому +3074

    Hey man, I lived on the streets from age 13 until I was sixteen. I've seen just how willing people are to inflict suffering on other humans. You wouldn't believe what "regular" people will do.

    • @John420Bro
      @John420Bro 10 місяців тому +334

      Very happy you're off the streets

    • @MilestheDirtyMindedGoblin2099
      @MilestheDirtyMindedGoblin2099 10 місяців тому +235

      It’s horrible, so sorry you had to go through that

    • @pillsburydoughboy1627
      @pillsburydoughboy1627 10 місяців тому +62

      ​@@TheGuiltsOfUsweirdo

    • @eye_parasite
      @eye_parasite 10 місяців тому

      ​@@TheGuiltsOfUsyou belong to the streets

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio 10 місяців тому +36

      In times of desperation, some people will do almost anything to get by. Even at the cost of other people, or their own dignity, or even their own decency.

  • @gorbonator5008
    @gorbonator5008 9 місяців тому +2509

    Fun fact, unit 731 was the group that discovered that humans are made of 70% water! I can only imagine how horrible those tests were!

    • @wullfric
      @wullfric 8 місяців тому +428

      Guess those dehydration tests did bear fruit. Now if only there had been some way of finding that out without LITERALLY DRAINING PEOPLE

    • @Morec0
      @Morec0 8 місяців тому +47

      ​@@wullfricmore like bared raisins! Eyo!

    • @mischievousjr.9299
      @mischievousjr.9299 8 місяців тому +70

      Goddamn that's going to be a crazy fact to spread. That is nuts bro got me worried about how no one knew that before Unit 731

    • @ntynite
      @ntynite 8 місяців тому +301

      antione lavoisier is actually one of the first people credited with figuring out the human body's water percentage, and he did it a couple hundred years before unit 731. AND he did it without torturing people. at the end of the day it doesn't really matter though because both were off by 10-20%

    • @angelusvastator1297
      @angelusvastator1297 8 місяців тому +33

      That's actually false.

  • @Mythical4227
    @Mythical4227 Місяць тому +10

    AINT NO WAY bro decimated the atmosphere with a raid shadow legends sponsorship.

  • @song6771
    @song6771 3 місяці тому +46

    See, he mentions the fact that MacArthur didn't know the full details of 731, and says that he "hopes MacArthur wouldn't have offered full immunity" if he had known. If it makes you sleep any easier, that man almost certainly would not have, especially not after what he saw of the Philippines at the start of the war. Man had no love for Japan.

  • @shiomicchi7247
    @shiomicchi7247 11 місяців тому +3284

    The worst thing about this whole ordeal is that this facility is rarely acknowledged. I studied Japanese at university for 4 years and took multiple history courses, a lot of which included military history from the 20th century, and unit 731 was never mentioned by any of my professors or in any of our readings. We talked a lot about other horrors such as "comfort women", the senseless murder of civilians and the forced "Japanification" of people in places like China, Korea and Taiwan, but unit 731 never came up. I even asked one of my professors why we didn't discuss Shiro Ishii, and according to him, even the Japanese themselves would prefer to just forget that it happened, despite never even showing any sort of public remorse for the crimes of the empire. It's a touchy subject, extremely gruesome and very fresh in the public's mind, given how it was less than a century ago, but I think it's really important for us to acknowledge the darker parts of history to make sure we never do anything like this again as a species.

    • @ocpsyconautv2958
      @ocpsyconautv2958 10 місяців тому

      It’s because half of all medical knowledge/treatment is predicted by experiments like this
      They know what not to do & what it’ll do to you because of facilities like this. Otherwise they’re stuck injecting monkies with anything they can think of, which isn’t a comforting thought either

    • @deadinside8781
      @deadinside8781 10 місяців тому +9

      How was the topic of comfort women treated, out of curiosity?

    • @opeth7021
      @opeth7021 10 місяців тому +220

      that's bullshit. they don't get to just forget all of these vile disgusting inhumane things that have happened and not even apologise for it.

    • @user-tn7zh9rx3j
      @user-tn7zh9rx3j 10 місяців тому +53

      ​@@opeth7021 they do get cus nobody ever punished the people who were in charge for it. I mean Japanese monarchy still exists to this day.

    • @opeth7021
      @opeth7021 10 місяців тому +102

      @@user-tn7zh9rx3j not really familiar w their politics. i just meant like they SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO y'know? just like holocaust, we shouldn't forget history or it will someday repeat itself. and to be honest, it already is repeating itself. look at what's happening to uyghur turks in china. is anybody talking about that? no, silence. i recommend you guys do research if you don't know about that topic as well btw we all should be informed.

  • @Gameinger16
    @Gameinger16 11 місяців тому +1254

    Unit 731 is genuinely just so fucking sickening. It's absolutely insane how monstrous and disgusting it is that something like this ever happened. Like the worst things you couldn't even imagine happened and the main architects got off scot-free.
    I feel like more attention is being put onto this recently thankfully. I think despite how immensely revolting it is, It's important to recognize the worst atrocities of mankind. Even against each other.

    • @thepcuser4312
      @thepcuser4312 11 місяців тому +7

      although sickening, we did learn some things from it. for example they were the reason we found out our bodies are made out of mostly water. How they found this out though was by I think boiling people or burning.

    • @psyxypher3881
      @psyxypher3881 11 місяців тому +7

      Why "Mankind" and not the people who ACTUALLY DID IT?
      If you blame everyone for the sins of a few, we all learn nothing.

    • @ValiareTheForsaken01
      @ValiareTheForsaken01 11 місяців тому +27

      ​@psyxypher3881 Because they weren't the only ones doing it. The Nazis performed similar experiments inside of the concentration camps. And there's the fact that mankind has always done horrific things like this.
      It's easy to imagine it takes deranged monsters to do things like this. Never forget that the people who commit these sorts of atrocities are still just people.

    • @Gameinger16
      @Gameinger16 11 місяців тому +11

      @@ValiareTheForsaken01 ^
      We like to imagine that only a monster could do it, but they were still human like us. They were born not too different to us.

    • @JoeMama-su6io
      @JoeMama-su6io 11 місяців тому

      @@thepcuser4312 lol

  • @vividpath1089
    @vividpath1089 2 місяці тому +31

    Pre-humbled Japan was insane

    • @W1HURI
      @W1HURI 2 місяці тому +11

      Its still insane

    • @seigneurdelatour
      @seigneurdelatour 28 днів тому +4

      They're exactly the same now.

  • @idk-imacat
    @idk-imacat 21 день тому +9

    Finally decided to check out Wendigoon after seeing him on Creepcast. I had formerly thought he was a silly horror youtuber talking about skinwalkers and such but he's such a legit dude. I can tell he is a good soul. Good video, albeit dark.

  • @blufluffya_496
    @blufluffya_496 11 місяців тому +1735

    Thousands of people and it essentially went unnoticed..... it's scary to think how much of this kind of stuff is currently going on right under our noses

    • @andyd2960
      @andyd2960 11 місяців тому +118

      There is absolutely stuff like this going on right now and in recent past. All around the globe.

    • @SirHusky654
      @SirHusky654 11 місяців тому

      @@andyd2960 There's the Epstein clientele list for one, which we probably won't know the full extent of until 30 years down the line when everybody involved is already dead.

    • @barneycockburn
      @barneycockburn 11 місяців тому

      RIGHT NOW. All over Africa, Mexico, behind Stalin's regime, North Korea... Just to make a few

    • @Sercer25
      @Sercer25 11 місяців тому +59

      This is just what was uncovered. Always keep your friends and family close and away from the g*v't kidn*pping hotspots.

    • @kirc3375
      @kirc3375 11 місяців тому +18

      @@Sercer25What 💀

  • @-blaire-
    @-blaire- 10 місяців тому +1618

    The fact that there were no survivors, the fact that there was never any justice, the fact that the destruction of records and the facility means we'll never know the true extent of these atrocities... For me, it's these things combined that outline how absolutely atrocious and horrifying Unit 731 truly was.
    Edit: It's been 9 months now since I left my original comment, and I just wanted to come back to say that both before and since then I have never heard of anything as awful as what occurred in Unit 731. I'm not exaggerating when I say that thinking about it makes me furious every time, and I can't even hear the name "Manchuria" without being reminded of the events and feeling a pang of sorrow and disgust. I only wish something could be done to bring the victims the justice they deserve, but as it's too late for that I think the least we can do is make sure that we remember them; and if there is an afterlife, I hope they've found their peace.

    • @thiago5372
      @thiago5372 10 місяців тому +2

      "destruction of records" ??

    • @marnenotmarnie259
      @marnenotmarnie259 10 місяців тому +97

      ⁠@@thiago5372the researchers burned almost all their records when they realized they would be found out soon if they didn't. wendi mentioned it a couple times in the video

    • @DropsofJupiter667
      @DropsofJupiter667 9 місяців тому +28

      @@thiago5372did you watch the whole video? They destroyed most of their evidence

    • @Kyriesosa11
      @Kyriesosa11 9 місяців тому +5

      Ironic that this is coming from someone with a Griffith pfp lol.

    • @TheSoulMasterzz
      @TheSoulMasterzz 9 місяців тому

      @@Kyriesosa11 just what i was thinking hahaha

  • @user-em9ke1mk8d
    @user-em9ke1mk8d 29 днів тому +19

    Not just Chinese people suffered almost all east Asia suffered from imperial Japan that time😢 but till today the government even refused to apologize and admit this history. That’s why so many Japanese don’t know why they got booms

  • @dragonlotion1789
    @dragonlotion1789 6 місяців тому +18

    Regarding Animals experimentation and the Japanese, there is a book from the late 80s early 90s I believe called “Slaughterhouse..”I can’t remember the full name, but I would argue more brutal. I couldn’t make it through;
    A dog with his exposed back skeleton hooked up with electrodes connected to nerve centers repeatedly shocked for days,aware.
    That’s is far as I got.😔 proving once again we’re more monsters than men.

  • @amandas2639
    @amandas2639 11 місяців тому +1375

    To Wendigoon's point about why the mirror story is so chilling, I studied Nazi Germany pretty heavily for my master's program (history). One of the points I kept running across, both from contemporary writers and from historians looking back, is that it's so easy to write all these atrocities off as being conducted by actual supervillains come to life from a comic book, or by demons, or whatever, because it's a comforting lie. For one thing, it helps us try to rationalize something that can't truly be rationalized, and for another, it helps us fool ourselves into thinking these were anomalies that can never be repeated. How often are demons going to crawl up from hell and run amuck, after all?
    But by mythologizing these monsters and turning them into *literal* monsters from fairytales and movies, we lose sight of the horrifying truth that, by and large, these were just ordinary people. There wasn't anything special about them besides their capacity for unfathomable cruelty. They had jobs, friends, hobbies, families. They had favorite foods and favorite songs and favorite books. They weren't demons or monsters (in the literal sense, I mean), not some kind of otherworldly creatures that plagued the world in their time; they were human, same as the rest of us. *That* is what is truly terrifying about it all--knowing that they weren't special or unique and that there is absolutely nothing preventing more like them from showing up again.

    • @marcshuman2287
      @marcshuman2287 11 місяців тому +12

      It is foolishness to say that there was nothing demonic about this behavior. Demons manifest in this world to torment humanity through possession and or manipulating their minds to commit acts of transgression such as these atrocities.

    • @MrTrolltle
      @MrTrolltle 11 місяців тому +142

      @@marcshuman2287 they never said there wasn’t anything demonic about it. This was downright demonic behavior committed by awful people, But at the end of the day they were still people. That’s the terrifying part

    • @gabagabago0l
      @gabagabago0l 11 місяців тому

      ​@@marcshuman2287Nonsense. There's no such thing as demons, or gods or fairytales or whatever crackhead belief is out there.
      This "behavior" is completely human. It is not "unnatural". Human beings are cruel, inhumane and horrible creatures to ourselves and other species.

    • @baobypixar5841
      @baobypixar5841 11 місяців тому +102

      @@marcshuman2287 you missed their point entirely

    • @jg54sayaka11
      @jg54sayaka11 11 місяців тому

      Anyone would be capable of such action given a situation where you either comply or be killed yourself

  • @AlexKatzenstein
    @AlexKatzenstein 11 місяців тому +2323

    These experiments are, like, morbid curiosity taken to the extreme. It's like everybody being able to act on every intrusive thought they've ever had in their lives.

    • @giovannicervantes2053
      @giovannicervantes2053 11 місяців тому +173

      I didn't feel like making this joke but might as well
      Japanese scientists when hitting a baby against a tree after poisoning its mother kills it.
      😮

    • @pitbullnamedcupcake8485
      @pitbullnamedcupcake8485 10 місяців тому

      @@giovannicervantes2053 “holy shit! Did you guys know dropping a newborn infant in to sulfuric acid kills it?!”
      “What?!?…I don’t believe it, it must have been a fluke! Do it ten more times to be sure!”

    • @ItsNessaTho
      @ItsNessaTho 10 місяців тому +62

      ​@@giovannicervantes2053 literally surprised Pikachu face to the extreme

    • @door-chan
      @door-chan 10 місяців тому +17

      They're not intrusive thoughts if they're always on your mind

    • @DecayOpossum
      @DecayOpossum 10 місяців тому +67

      @@door-chanI’d say more they’re not intrusive if they don’t disturb you. Some key aspects of intrusive thoughts is that they are persistent and upsetting. These people clearly couldn’t have been too disturbed by what they were doing when even the “nicest” one only snuck in a mirror but never did anything about the, ya know, horrific human experimentation and brutal torture.

  • @DrShankenstein
    @DrShankenstein 5 місяців тому +26

    Thank you so much for suffering through this. I greatly appreciate all the work you put into this video. I totally agree with all your points honestly.

  • @Hirotara
    @Hirotara 5 місяців тому +24

    The lengths of human depravity are insane and it sucks that this is being covered up, such an atrocious tragedy being swept under the rug, its wild and wrong

  • @guzvar
    @guzvar 9 місяців тому +2922

    If you ever come to México, there is a really interesting museum in México City called "Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia" i believe it translates to "Museum of remembrance and tolerance"
    it has exhibits of genocides with stories directly from survivors, part of the museum is decorated like trenches, they even give you a disclaimer before entering because it really feels heavy emotionaly, especially the last room of the museum.
    The point of the museum is to never forget what the human is cappable of, so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past, it's a relly interesting experience

    • @patrickn.4113
      @patrickn.4113 9 місяців тому +12

      I would like to see this some day😊

    • @SebastienDrac
      @SebastienDrac 9 місяців тому +47

      Ayo, I'm mexican but don't live in Mexico City. Thanks for giving me another place I'd like to visit if I ever go there 🌱

    • @bee3387
      @bee3387 9 місяців тому +44

      every country should have a museum like this

    • @biggreen1456
      @biggreen1456 9 місяців тому +8

      I learned about this in my spanish class, very interesting museum

    • @TheCristianalvarez
      @TheCristianalvarez 9 місяців тому +15

      Ironic with constant snuff files coming out of there.

  • @ryf3905
    @ryf3905 11 місяців тому +2342

    as a japanese person this video hit extra hard for me. having received both american and japanese education growing up, and personally being interested in colonial history, i’m a lot more aware of our horrific past than the average person, but this was SO much worse than what i knew before… the history curriculum here barely touch on the various massacres that took place under imperial japan since there are groups that actively lobby against educating the ppl abt it. as horrible as it is, i’m glad you highlighted this topic as i feel that japanese war crimes are never talked about, completely overshadowed by whatever cool japan is…

    • @ryf3905
      @ryf3905 11 місяців тому +176

      not that american education is particularly unbiased on this topic either, but yk what i mean

    • @dlf7789
      @dlf7789 11 місяців тому +64

      The fact they call it colonial history is deplorable.

    • @quinsey9211
      @quinsey9211 11 місяців тому +24

      thanks for the comment was hoping some english speaking japanese people would give their insight. Love from California

    • @shortking-vp9vv
      @shortking-vp9vv 11 місяців тому +72

      Huh. As a Southern American, it’s interesting to know there are groups in Japan too who don’t want the ugly parts of their history taught.

    • @ich3730
      @ich3730 11 місяців тому

      @@shortking-vp9vv they legit got shrines for war criminals over there, its fcked up. Japan really does not give shit about its past

  • @Xraypc
    @Xraypc 16 днів тому +6

    Thats why i hate when the studio ghibli creator who calls Americans the only war hungry evil ones. Doesnt realize why his country is not even allowed a military. On top of this the horrible things done to filipinos and more simply bc thry took over their country

  • @BadAtGamesDanii
    @BadAtGamesDanii Місяць тому +17

    I am usually a pretty cold, emotionless person, I dont react very much to horror, or disgust, I've seen the worst of live leak, the worst of reddit 50/50, but even a minor description of any of these events makes me feel bile creep up my throat...

  • @StopXPlease
    @StopXPlease 11 місяців тому +965

    When I heard "breeding stock" my eyes sprung a leak, man. My biggest fear is having a body used against my will, specifically forced impregnation, and to imagine the thousands of women, some probably younger than me, is horrific. I hope those mothers are living a peaceful life with their children in heaven.

    • @imsleepy6211
      @imsleepy6211 11 місяців тому +67

      Honestly, yeah this is one of the main things that really bothers me.

    • @kiarastaggs180
      @kiarastaggs180 11 місяців тому +24

      @@imsleepy6211 What bothers me is knowing that this all came from the same country where some of the biggest icons of gaming were born. It was almost as if they were created as distractions so that nobody would remember the atrocities that happened in the past…….

    • @IbrahiemLegoFilms
      @IbrahiemLegoFilms 11 місяців тому +187

      ​@@kiarastaggs180 bruh what lol

    • @samuelclayhills3298
      @samuelclayhills3298 11 місяців тому +1

      Thoese kids wherent baptized so straight to Limbo for thoes fucks.

    • @disappointeddogo184
      @disappointeddogo184 11 місяців тому +9

      @@kiarastaggs180?

  • @jingxuu3064
    @jingxuu3064 11 місяців тому +877

    Growing up I was told the horrendous experiment the 731 done on Chinese people back then. My grandparents told me they would steam people alive / freeze people and then pour boiling water on them just to see how a human body would react. I used to have nightmares about being steamed and seeing my flesh being scooped out! Worse thing is I don’t think they ever once acknowledged or apologized for the excruciating pain and suffering it inflicted. Thanks Wendigoon for spreading the awareness. Just wanted to say that sometimes the tough stance China takes against Japan on many issues has its roots in the history which are not often heard by many, especially knowing when people suffered without ever getting redress

    • @Frankie-xu6sr
      @Frankie-xu6sr 11 місяців тому

      The Japanese government acknowledged the atrocities but never officially apologized for them to this day

    • @proton2189
      @proton2189 11 місяців тому

      The history of Japan and China runs deep and there isn't one country (or empire) that was best than the other, truly. Both did horrible stuff over the centuries.

    • @sully1492
      @sully1492 11 місяців тому +29

      I had something similar but with the holocaust. My dad went way too in detail when I was way too young about what would happen to me if I was in nazi germany, I was scared of taking showers for a while
      Edit: my dad who’s a history major got it from my grandpa(who’s a practicing Jew) it was hard to wrap my head around myself being the victim of such things when I was that young. Sometimes I dreamed off gas coming from the faucet head or I showered fearing the water would stop coming and gas would come out.

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 11 місяців тому +1

      So they jut went on the surface. Of that .😢

  • @fatkido1369
    @fatkido1369 5 місяців тому +43

    We captured the head of unit 731 and many of their top officials and not one was ever charged as a war criminal. The US Army protected the “doctors” because of the data they collected. I read a story years ago that said There were more records collected than shown but were deemed a national security item.

  • @anne-marieriamitchell1140
    @anne-marieriamitchell1140 27 днів тому +4

    My grans brother was a prisoner of war in Japan during ww2 after being freed he was sent to Canada to gain weight before being sent home to the UK
    My grandma saw him suddenly walking down the road and she always said he was the only man she ever ran after so sweet! He had the bluest eyes we all have very blue eyes but his oh my and he was so friendly kind and funny. I’ve looked at some things he went through and just want to scream why?

  • @soggyman1098
    @soggyman1098 11 місяців тому +928

    Wendigoon is like the Bob Ross of horror. This man could talk about the most disturbing events in human history but it's just so tranquil

    • @quack4760
      @quack4760 11 місяців тому +38

      and also add a raid shadow legends ad at the beginning

    • @MakerInMotion
      @MakerInMotion 11 місяців тому +19

      "Up here lets make a happy little cloud of poison gas, down at the bottom we'll use our wide brush to make a river of blood and vomit."

    • @ThePearsPair
      @ThePearsPair 11 місяців тому +2

      He uses classical music

    • @absolutelyfookinnobody2843
      @absolutelyfookinnobody2843 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@Insanity good job captain obvious

  • @YikersGrossout
    @YikersGrossout 11 місяців тому +1334

    Wendigoon still managing to be the most wholesome person on the platform all while talking about the worst things in history

    • @kclink1579
      @kclink1579 11 місяців тому

      Why are you so easily manipulated like that? He actually thinks you are a gullible idiot and proves it.

    • @butteriest1634
      @butteriest1634 10 місяців тому

      shut yo mouth

  • @ira__s
    @ira__s 15 днів тому +4

    It is so disturbing how people can do such horrific things to each other, and how it has happened so many times in different places and ways and how I have no doubt is still happening to this day maybe just in a different way again. It's also just so sad how it feels like there is more and more people nowadays who try to deny these horrible things ever happened, trying to erase the victims completely. We need to talk about these things and stop them from happening again, although we'll never be able to rid evil completely. It is so depressing.

  • @FatalKoi
    @FatalKoi 4 місяці тому +7

    Thank you for the video, for the information. These things should definitely be addressed and talked about. We should never forget the situations or the victims...the victims families who still feel the after effects today...

  • @anxiousopossum
    @anxiousopossum 11 місяців тому +592

    My first job involved duplicating records from capital punishment cases for lawyers. This included photographs and videos of crime scenes and autopsies, which I knew going into the job. I never felt too bothered by it. It was easy to disconnect myself when copying those materials and just do the job. I did it exclusively for 2 years and continue assisting when we are short staffed to this day.
    One video stuck with me more than any other. It was the only one that ever made me cry and made me feel nauseous. It gave me nightmares that still last today. It was a walkthrough of the crime scene, guy was killed at home, robbery gone wrong or owed someone money, I don’t remember. But when they panned over the bathroom mirror his fiancée had left him a note, it just said “I love you, see you later!”
    Seeing that note, just that brief bridge of human connection shattered my disconnected to the materials I handled on the job. It was worse than any of the picture of bodies I had seen. I was engaged at the time, and started having nightmares about my fiancé, now husband, dying and me not being aware. About being that woman who had to receive the news that she’d never speak to the man she loved again. 29:58 I think it’s always the things we don’t expect to hurt about horrors in this world that can disturb us the most.

    • @leek.3671
      @leek.3671 11 місяців тому +23

      Holy shit… this made me cry

    • @euthymialy
      @euthymialy 11 місяців тому +17

      I have recurring post traumatic nightmares too, my heart goes out to you.

    • @wetsocks3499
      @wetsocks3499 11 місяців тому +7

      that is one of my worst fears,,
      really sorry you had to see that, i hope at some point in the future it gets a little better at least

    • @anxiousopossum
      @anxiousopossum 11 місяців тому +14

      @@wetsocks3499 thank you and others for your super sweet comments. I’m doing a lot better, I go to therapy and thankfully the job has good health insurance that covers mental health services. I hope everyone else who is struggling with trauma finds comfort! 💜

    • @craydussy
      @craydussy 11 місяців тому +7

      Wow, thank you for sharing this. It's heartbreaking. What do you mean by duplicating the video though, and why would you have to watch these videos to do it?

  • @MrsSmithsMeatPies
    @MrsSmithsMeatPies 11 місяців тому +569

    "Humanity, just as capable as it is for infinite evil, is capable of infinite good." I always love the wise words of Wendigoon--a man who takes on a lot of horror to share but somehow still has an amazing heart and sense of humor

    • @kathrineici9811
      @kathrineici9811 11 місяців тому +3

      I don’t believe in the good. Most good I’ve heard of was completely accidental. Ex: Huge advancements were made in Preemie care because the babies were part of a theme park attraction.

    • @TheOneWhoShallAsk
      @TheOneWhoShallAsk 11 місяців тому +19

      Go and do something nice for your loved ones. Participate in any volunteer work. Sit down and dedicate some time and effort to create a business, project whatever big work you can find that may lead to a better world tomorrow.
      There, you've proven there is something good.
      A realization that struck me a while ago is how difficult it actually is to be a genuinely good person. Even more so consistently. It requires effort, immense patience and sometimes even Incredible courage and strength.
      In nihilism then, we find a sort of convenience. Saying there's nothing good out there and no reason to do anything, conviently bails you out of any responsibility to do anything that could make a difference. Because why should you with that conviction?
      I'm not saying that's who you are, I am saying to make sure to never fall to such hubris. Make no mistake, bringing change, being something good will always require more work than other pathways. and will nearly always be the more difficult, longer way to walk

    • @helloneighbour2408
      @helloneighbour2408 11 місяців тому +3

      I mean those aren't his words. It's a real quote

    • @princesskatarina351
      @princesskatarina351 11 місяців тому +13

      ​@@kathrineici9811 You realize that the Coney Island preemie care exhibit wasn't an accident, right? Dr. Couney dedicated his life to raising awareness and saving the lives of those children. With the money brought in from the attraction, he didn't need to charge the mothers of those babies a dime for life saving treatments, round the clock nurses, and a devoted doctor.
      His own daughter was part of the exhibit. He saved thousands of lives, just during his lifetime. More live today because of those exhibits. The thing to understand is the medical community at the time we're resistant to baby incubators. They were unwilling to invest in this new technology, without proof that it'd work.
      But Coney Island was willing to make it a sideshow attraction. From 1903 to the early 40s. Incubators didn't become standard in hospitals until the 50s, after Couney died. So even after proof of concept was established, those in charge waited another decade or so, for him to die, so that he wasn't able to see them admit he was right.

    • @Wetknees
      @Wetknees 11 місяців тому +3

      Infinite good? Yeah in theory. I’ve only ever hear of infinite evil

  • @alekz8580
    @alekz8580 5 місяців тому +19

    I think part of the reason the story about the guard with the mirror is so unsettling is because it forces as to discard our caracatures of the Japanese staff and see the reality of them still being ordinary people. And the idea that ordinarybpeople could do such evil things is a more disturbing thought than evil being done by people who are evil at all times with no trace of goodness left in them.

  • @linkLoverAG
    @linkLoverAG 22 дні тому +3

    Its also insane to me to know near the end of WW2 Japan was actively starving and civilians were dying as a result. In fact, if the bombs hadn't been dropped, the backup choice to getting Japan to surrender was to put the country under a blockade and starve them out. They were more willing to send their spending to these torture labs than they were to supply food and water to their own dying civilians.

  • @theox8313
    @theox8313 11 місяців тому +905

    Once again, Japans rebrand to cute and kawaii anime should be studied. The evil and atrocities they've commited are absolutely disgusting and inhumane, a part of their history they still refuse to acknowledge. So many victims who will never find peace, who will never be named, never be apologized to, but I thank people like you who refuse to let their stories never be told.

    • @gaygaypoopypoopdywillygaygay
      @gaygaypoopypoopdywillygaygay 11 місяців тому +131

      that’s what I was thinking ab thru this whole video, it’s crazy looking at the sheer contrast between Japans rep now and japans rep a century ago lollll

    • @lithium1770
      @lithium1770 11 місяців тому

      crimes die with the men who did them. people born now are not at fault.

    • @eyo8766
      @eyo8766 11 місяців тому +19

      ​@@gaygaypoopypoopdywillygaygay Bill Wurtz: POST WAR ECONOMIC MIRACLE

    • @blackshogun272
      @blackshogun272 11 місяців тому

      @@gaygaypoopypoopdywillygaygay its like the combined subconscious of Japan has pushed away the concept of their people committing such absurd levels of evil in history. And now instead tirelessly seeks to remake themselves (weird, respectful, and fun) into an national icon that no inhabitant or foreigner could picture performing inhuman atrocities.

    • @wes4736
      @wes4736 11 місяців тому +71

      ​​@@eyo8766 - which is actually what the period between the 70s and 80s was called. Unseen prosperity and growth, in a couple decades going from a tattered economic backwater back to a solid and wealthy nation.
      Extremely wealthy, so wealthy that when there weren't as many kids by around 2000 as that previous generation was banking on, it IMMEDIATELY led to population crisis, and a situation where current young workers are forced to prop up the extremely large, wealthy and increasingly retiring age bracket in an already stratified and discipline based society. All while the resources from the boom continues to consolidate, leaving regular workers stagnant.
      Burnout is a major problem in Japan, and it reinforces the toxic cycle, as the average Japanese work week borders on 60 hours, literally too much work to socially market yourself to start a family. it's all not necessarily thanks to, yet undeniably inseparable from the post war economic miracle, and the older generations insistence that another one will happen.

  • @TheRealWalt
    @TheRealWalt 11 місяців тому +542

    I think every Wendigoon fan goes like "Ah sweet! Man made horrors beyond my comprehension" every time Wendi drops a new video.

    • @thelonehussar6101
      @thelonehussar6101 11 місяців тому +16

      My thoughts exactly

    • @SpicyButterflyWings
      @SpicyButterflyWings 10 місяців тому +3

      And here we are, studying up on these man-made horrors so they are no longer beyond our comprehension

  • @arifoucek
    @arifoucek Місяць тому +3

    i really appreciate how Wendi takes the time at the end to remind and reassure everyone that “hey, not everyone is evil, actually a lot of people are really un-evil” (and then proceeds to brag on his wife which is adorable)
    congratulations Dr. Kayla!! 🎉

  • @sparklingx4448
    @sparklingx4448 26 днів тому +4

    I can only say that if the Japanese government continues to deny these histories and call them just false propaganda, then don't blame the future when the Monument to the People's Heroes will be built on the ruins of the Yasukuni Shrine.

  • @Darthdesmond
    @Darthdesmond 11 місяців тому +715

    Fun fact, Japan has never ever formally apologized for this, and has a shrine to multiple people responsible.
    Edit: second fun fact, Japan had a convicted war criminal serve as “minister of Justice” after all of this.

    • @LostSpectre496
      @LostSpectre496 10 місяців тому +97

      More reasons to distrust Japan more than I already do

    • @jimbo7551
      @jimbo7551 10 місяців тому +62

      @@LostSpectre496tell that to weeaboos

    • @J0hnHenrySNEEDen
      @J0hnHenrySNEEDen 10 місяців тому +119

      Remember this.
      The Germans and Italians regretted participating in the war but the Japanese regretted losing the war.

    • @M3rk420
      @M3rk420 10 місяців тому +61

      @@jimbo7551
      Any country does something horrific: “We gotta do something about this!”
      Japan does something horrific: “They invented anime though!”

    • @MrOnay-px1jx
      @MrOnay-px1jx 10 місяців тому +6

      Many such cases with most countries

  • @evanwhittaker8587
    @evanwhittaker8587 11 місяців тому +841

    I visited Harbin in North Eastern China where these atrocities took place. The museum built on the site was one of the best I have ever visited. The museum was massive and completely free. They had hundreds of primary source documents and delved into pretty much every aspect of Unit 731. If anyone here is currently in China or plans to visit soon, I highly recommend visiting.

    • @MrDdeded
      @MrDdeded 11 місяців тому

      The only thing the Chinese government won’t lie about.

    • @hughjoelcock7145
      @hughjoelcock7145 11 місяців тому +37

      If only the CCP was that thorough in keeping up with its own human rights atrocities.

    • @vouteludibrialan8295
      @vouteludibrialan8295 11 місяців тому

      @Buis Bo It's hypocritical, to put it lightly? But oh well. Almost all nations have done and continue to do atrocities. Who cares, right?

    • @Knightwolf1994
      @Knightwolf1994 11 місяців тому

      ​@Buis Bo It's just whataboutism. It's the same thing when anyone mentions Nazi Germany's crimes and idiots say the US internment camps were worse.

    • @pureblood3823
      @pureblood3823 11 місяців тому

      ​@Buis Bo everything. Commies have murdered over 100 million people just in the last 100 years. That ideology needs to be eradicated from this earth. Don't be so dense

  • @el_nango3316
    @el_nango3316 6 місяців тому +7

    when in a war would you need to freeze a baby, like "quick, or someone might beat us to it"

  • @TheHirohikoAraki
    @TheHirohikoAraki 8 днів тому +3

    Fans: Japan made manga and anime more popular than comic books! They did nothing wrong!
    Historians: _Should we tell them?_

  • @rluciano287
    @rluciano287 11 місяців тому +470

    Only wendigoon can get me to listen to such horrible events without making me feel uncomfortable. He's like that unhinged uncle filled with tales of woe but tells them so greatly that you forget how crazy the story is lol

    • @hyrules_feral_hero
      @hyrules_feral_hero 11 місяців тому +4

      our crazy uncle who we all love very much

    • @gothamdarkknight3729
      @gothamdarkknight3729 11 місяців тому +30

      It helps that there's no eerie, uncomfortable music playing in the background like so many other UA-camrs do it. Like, the atmosphere is appreciated for lighter topics like fictional horror stories, but for something like this, acknowledging it as a serious topic and discussing it with no extra flair is the only way to tell it.

    • @MrRichManGuy
      @MrRichManGuy 11 місяців тому

      Are you that much of a baby

  • @chrisdann7017
    @chrisdann7017 11 місяців тому +724

    One of the experiments they recently found out about from old soldiers passing down this information on their death beds. There was an experiment called "Mothers Love" at Unit 731. They would take a mother and her child and place them in a room with a floor that heated up over time. The soldiers would look under the door and take bets too see if the Mother would use her child as a shield or if she would protect her kid. Either way they would cook from the inside out but apparently the one solider said he only witnessed Mother's holding their child while running back and forth until their feet couldn't move anymore and then they'd curl up and hold their child on top of them to prevent them from touching the ground. Really stomach wrenching stuff. This reminds me Phillip Zimbardo's book "Lucifer Effect". It's the same Psych who did the Stanford Prison experiments, but he writes about American PoW camps during the Iraq invasion, the genocide in Rwanda etc and his entire point (I think? I could be a pleb) is that any human under the right systemic pressures can commit evil acts. Just something to consider when wondering how these soldiers and scientist committed such heinous crimes against humanity.

    • @Emmaem111
      @Emmaem111 11 місяців тому +54

      Yeah, it’s absolutely heinous and disgustingly disturbing what they did, but I can honestly also see them-once becoming desensitized enough to their own actions-having a fun time doing their torturing as if it’s a game or an interesting experiment to watch. Or maybe just being completely clinical about it. At least during the time they were doing it, I could see that being the case.
      This view is especially easy to consider when you remember they thought everyone who wasn’t imperial Japanese was below them. Probably more akin to other animals than people of the same species, a mindset which would make it harder for them to sympathize with those who suffered.
      Part of me wonders if anyone doing the torturing had a tougher time with prisoners who were fellow Japanese citizens than with those who weren’t. Maybe they convinced themselves they deserved it, but I kinda wonder if anyone still had trouble with it.
      Obviously not defending them, but the part of me that’s super into psychological is curious and wants to try and guess what went through the minds of both the torturers and the victims. Maybe less so the victims since that’s a scary mind-road to walk down.

    • @TheAngryXenite
      @TheAngryXenite 11 місяців тому +92

      Not to distract from the wider subject matter, but if memory serves Zimbardo really isn't a trustworthy researcher. People talk all the time about the Stanford Prison Experiment, but the fact is that he fucked up the methodology so badly that his results are completely worthless. Basically, he was deliberately attempting to reach that exact conclusion ("give anyone power over others and they will inevitably indulge in cruelty and oppression") and kept messing with the parameters to reach it, up to and including personal interference and encouraging the guards, who he had picked out himself rather than using randomly selected test subjects, to dominate the prisoners. The guards themselves attested that he'd indicated what he wanted to see from them and they went with it not necessarily because they felt like it but because they wanted to meet his request.
      TL:DR it's a bad experiment and it doesn't prove anything beyond Zimbardo being an ass and that people will go along with a lot if they believe it's required of them.

    • @cmillspa1
      @cmillspa1 11 місяців тому +20

      @@TheAngryXenite Good, I’d like to keep at least a shred of my faith in humanity.

    • @Han-yb7qo
      @Han-yb7qo 11 місяців тому +18

      Im giving my mom the biggest hug when she gets home now

    • @njones420
      @njones420 11 місяців тому

      @@Emmaem111 agreed to some degree but it's sadly also just a _human_ (or even an anamalia thing) and not only cultural. look at the milgram experiments, or Nazis, or the Zimbardo Prison Experiments (sorry, they were in the OP too) etc.
      ...but we also see it in the animal kingdom with higher-intelligence creatures, chimps will spend several hours mutilating and abusing other chimps _after_ killing them. Orcas and seals obviously, cats, dolphins, elephants...the list goes on. nature is cruel and we're part of it. Our gift is _most_ people's empathy will overrule such acts, you'd hope.

  • @trudioosthuizen1377
    @trudioosthuizen1377 6 місяців тому +3

    I love the way you tell a story. You put me in the middle of it all and help me understand exactly what happend and why. You help me make sense of it all. Thanx again🎉

  • @firebrand7816
    @firebrand7816 3 місяці тому +13

    3:14 THE RAID SHADOW LEGENDS THREW ME OFF SO BAD-

  • @C._Bradford
    @C._Bradford 11 місяців тому +832

    So glad you talking about this. Nobody talks about the atrocities of Japan during the war in an accessible way. I spent weeks learning about the holocaust in high school but never even heard about Unit 731, Nanking, or Comfort Women until I was literally pursuing a history degree in college.

    • @sir4978
      @sir4978 11 місяців тому +60

      Bu- bu- But Sony and cute anime women!

    • @sir4978
      @sir4978 11 місяців тому +38

      And who could forget Mario Bing Bing wahoo. Dont Think about it haha, cute anime Girls for the win haha Sony walkman haha

    • @anopiniononyt9585
      @anopiniononyt9585 11 місяців тому +46

      @@sir4978 cringe

    • @shosc16
      @shosc16 11 місяців тому +17

      What? People have been talking about unit 731 for YEARS. Don’t pretend like it’s something new

    • @ichigo.42ga3
      @ichigo.42ga3 11 місяців тому +26

      @@sir4978 these are completely different things from completely different times, are we supposed to just hate entire populations and their creations for crimes committed before their timeline??

  • @Dionaea_floridensis
    @Dionaea_floridensis 11 місяців тому +813

    It's astounding how much the American view of Japan has changed since WWII. My grandmother, who was born in 1934, to this day holds a grudge against the Japanese since she lost 3 of her male family members in the Pacific theatre. Meanwhile, I'm learning Japanese and plan to work and live there in the future. My grandmother doesn't think ill of me she knows things have changed, but she will carry her grudge to her grave.

    • @se7ente3n
      @se7ente3n 11 місяців тому +73

      my grandfather was like that as well, he was a child when pearl harbor happened and had uncles fight in it, and then he fought in the korean war. he def didn’t trust Japanese or chinese people for a long time, for some reason he was fine with koreans, vietnamese, and cambodians tho. didn’t care unless it was chinese or japanese

    • @julianjaimes197
      @julianjaimes197 11 місяців тому

      Based grandma. Unless there's some specific industry you work in where you need to be in Japan for some reason, you're wasting your time. You could learn 4-5 other languages in the time its going to take you to learn Japanese, so you can move to a country with a collapsing population and some of the highest rates of suicide in the world.
      The trend of people in our generation running off to Japan because theyve watched to many animes is some of the whackest sht I've ever seen

    • @fort809
      @fort809 11 місяців тому

      The Japanese were committing genocide in the 1930s and 40s, people had a reason to hold their opinions back then

    • @douglassmalls6934
      @douglassmalls6934 11 місяців тому +61

      @@se7ente3n Probably because we had allies in Korea and Vietnam when he was over there. Americans were fighting with the southern factions on both sides so their opinion was probably pretty high

    • @joelapplin88
      @joelapplin88 11 місяців тому

      Why would you want to live in japan? Cant even own a gun

  • @chaoskitteh
    @chaoskitteh Місяць тому +5

    I need to go hug my puppy. Those poor people 😢

  • @ginashemeth7708
    @ginashemeth7708 3 місяці тому +7

    My nephew just finished a term paper on Japan in WW2. Just wanted to let you know that you sir was his first sited reference. His history teacher is also a fan of yours and I just wanted to say thank you for being so engaging and encouraging young people to do further research.
    By!!!!!❤

  • @timliu4028
    @timliu4028 11 місяців тому +147

    Being Chinese, 731 and the Rape of Nanking still is one of the most tragic and traumatizing events thats ever happened in history. The worst part is, no one will admit to it and almost all got away with it. Goes back to the quote, if you forget your history, you are sure to repeat it.

    • @zersky495
      @zersky495 11 місяців тому

      @@user-qv5sm5dw1v Good job brushing off his sadness over what Japan did to China and going to straight into whataboutism bc you hate Communism. You’re definitely not an arrogant asshole 👍

    • @xenophagia
      @xenophagia 11 місяців тому +19

      Tiananmen Square. The great famine.

    • @lithium1770
      @lithium1770 11 місяців тому +18

      also the tiannamen square massacre.

    • @sowergamingbro5885
      @sowergamingbro5885 11 місяців тому

      That's because they're government is not teaching it. Most Japanese are not multilingual so they can't understand outside sources. Also tiananmen square and Uyghers

    • @j800q
      @j800q 11 місяців тому

      @@user-qv5sm5dw1vsaying that communism is worse than japan is the most stupid shit ive read in a while. Like sure you can hate the ideology and say that it caused a lot of deaths but the pure horrible shit the japanese did in the war dwarfs that all. The japanese soldiers were playing catch with fetuses with tehir bayonets. Aint seen any chinese soldier do that

  • @KarazolaX
    @KarazolaX 11 місяців тому +298

    I always thought the Umbrella Corporation from Resident Evil was too cartoonish and nobody could be that fundamentally cruel and evil in the real world. Turns out, the Japanese government were giving Umbrella a run for their money.

    • @absolutelyfookinnobody2843
      @absolutelyfookinnobody2843 11 місяців тому +7

      Wow, you really were sheltered if you actually thought that. Good thing you found videos like this to break you out of your little kid world view

    • @profile1172
      @profile1172 11 місяців тому +111

      @@absolutelyfookinnobody2843 lil bro thinks he knows everything cause he just finished 8th grade world history.

    • @thepoliticalgunnut8018
      @thepoliticalgunnut8018 11 місяців тому +81

      ​@@absolutelyfookinnobody2843 oh look out boys we got an edge lord here.

    • @Crossroads_Romeo
      @Crossroads_Romeo 11 місяців тому +25

      Well Biohazard/Resi is a Japanese game series, a lot of modern Japanese horror is unsurprisingly inspired by these atrocities.

    • @TaraIsEarth
      @TaraIsEarth 11 місяців тому +7

      real life just like bibeo game

  • @raqu5432
    @raqu5432 29 днів тому +5

    Thank you! I am a Chinese. I would never forget this history (and Nanjing Massacre, which is another disgusting and terrifying thing that Japanese did to Chinese). What Japan did to our ancestors. And what our ancestors did to protect us from wars, to create a peaceful place for all of us. What makes me angry is that until now, Japan still haven't acknowledge what their ancestors did yet. They owe our ancestors an apology. Some Japanese even said these histories are made up by Chinese.

  • @SpoiledPrince
    @SpoiledPrince 16 днів тому +4

    So basically people from resident evil's umbrella corp already existed 90 years ago and the whole world knew nothing about... 😶

  • @aluminumtarkus
    @aluminumtarkus 11 місяців тому +426

    The "maruta" label was also an effective way to dehumanize the prisoners. When it comes to crimes against humanity like this, it's common for the direct perpetrators to find some way to convince themselves that the people they're torturing are subhuman as a means to cope and to justify their own actions.

  • @Satou_Rin
    @Satou_Rin 11 місяців тому +771

    I’m Japanese, and I’m honestly a little less ashamed of the fact that this happened within my nation’s history than the fact that there are people so desperate about their sense of national pride that they deny the truth about it. Even if it’s shameful and difficult, admitting it happened is the only way we can ever make amends. It’s the honorable thing to do.
    That being said, I am not at all surprised the Imperial Japanese would use their own guards as test subjects. So many men sacrificed themselves during the war because they believed the honor of dying for their nation was worth more than their own lives. Their way of thinking led to so much loss- loss of the enemy and loss of their own people. Even more reason to hate the Imperial Japanese.

    • @Excelsior1937
      @Excelsior1937 11 місяців тому +83

      Yeah, Germany showed the whole world how to properly respond when you’ve done something horrible, and it’s so frustrating when our countries just ignore their example and keep pretending they never did anything wrong.

    • @Sputterbugz
      @Sputterbugz 11 місяців тому +19

      and they used their own nationalism to justify attacking non Japanese within their own country (ie the massive earthquake in the 20s)

    • @lucasmetzger1154
      @lucasmetzger1154 11 місяців тому +1

      W

    • @lesigh3410
      @lesigh3410 11 місяців тому

      @Michelle Literally the Japanese govt has been doing everything they can to cover up and downplay their warcrimes. Just look at the way comfort women and such get talked about over there. The government doesn't regret a damn thing they did; they don't deserve to be forgiven if they try to pretend that their injustices never even happened.

    • @BennyBoy-cl4co
      @BennyBoy-cl4co 11 місяців тому +39

      Exactly. Like for example German people are like “yes the holocaust happened but we aren’t them it should never happen again” but some Japanese people (definitely not all) would rather just forget that it happened

  • @Rebecca87.
    @Rebecca87. 2 місяці тому +6

    Rest in peace to all souls lost in this video may all your journeys in Afterlife be beautiful

  • @kiddmode
    @kiddmode Місяць тому +2

    Great job and great style of video. Haven’t seen something like this for horror related content and I’m pleased. Thank you for taking the time to make it

  • @thekingofclowntown
    @thekingofclowntown 10 місяців тому +1895

    i think what scares me the most is the idea that something disgusting like this is most likely going on right now, and is just being hidden from the public. also them being granted full imunity makes me suck to my stomach. even with the little info they had, they shouldnt have granted full imunity. imagine murdering hundreds of people in the most brutal ways imagineable and just walking away with no repercussions whatsoever

  • @joyuz6583
    @joyuz6583 11 місяців тому +707

    The thing that really gets me is that even with all that we know, all the atrocities we know to have been committed, all of the blood, cruelty, torture, indescribably pure agony that went on in this facility is that we might not even know the full extent of all that went on in this facility. Just… how can a group of people have so much darkness in their heart as to commit anything scratching the surface of these acts.

    • @Histerdcap
      @Histerdcap 11 місяців тому

      These experiments happened in many countries these are the ones we know about.

    • @lazyassdre
      @lazyassdre 11 місяців тому

      sadly it's really easy when you come from a homogenous culture that views it's subjects as less than human.

    • @KarlosJKarlos
      @KarlosJKarlos 11 місяців тому +7

      It's the Lucifer effect in full force

    • @918Mitchell
      @918Mitchell 11 місяців тому +6

      Humanities default setting is evil.

    • @AlbertWillHelmWestings2618
      @AlbertWillHelmWestings2618 11 місяців тому

      japs have no souls mang what did you think

  • @anthonyreidel3750
    @anthonyreidel3750 4 місяці тому +3

    I'm only 31 but I remember videos stores, and a particularly great one called Waterfront Video in Vermont. It was staffed by cinephiles and/or college film students when I was in late middle school. I loved horror and asked a staff member for a good watch and this bastard put "Philosophy of a Knife" in my hands. After running that marathon it was so haunting years later to realize the truth behind the whole thing...