New book details Unit 731's biological warfare experiments
By Zhou Huiying |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2025-09-19 17:19
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It also covers the traumatic memories passed on to the victims' families, their lawsuits against Japan, the unit's post-war trajectory, and issues of site preservation, peace education, historical recognition, and contemporary reflection.
"I spent 20 years investigating and five years writing the book," said the author Yang Yanjun, a professor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Yang is also an appointed researcher at the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin. "After communicating with the families of human experiment victims, I deeply felt that the pain of war has not ended in their hearts."
