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Summary: A Thought Provoking Book
Review: The past year I had the opportunity to work in Japan. I was excited about this as I have had a interest in Japan for a while. Before I say anything about the book I want to mention that all the Japanese people I met and befriended were/are some of the most honest and loyal people that I have had the pleasure to have met. However, one thing did bother me. I came across Unit 731 in an English speaking newspaper but I had no idea what it meant. I talked to one of my expat friends to see if he knew what Unit 731 was. I was shocked to find out the truth of Unit 731. What even shocked me more was the fact that most Japanese people deny that Unit 731 ever existed. I had some of my students write term papers about how people from other countries(the US) made these stories up to make Japan look bad. My girlfriend who is Japanese even has the same opinions as some of my students, even though she has read the book and many others that deal with subjects about Japan's war record. This book was helpful to understand the horrors of war which hopefully will not be repeated again.
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Summary: that Hiromi Japanese coward!
Review: This "Hiromi" really must be a shameless japanese coward! if the book states the truth about all the sins Japanese has done during the WW II, ¡°she ¡±will definitely disgree with it and dislike it. what a complete moron. you know what HIROMI, you should really write more reviews. the more you write, the more truth people will see. the things and aspects you deny, they must be the truth. the things you praise and make all the compliments on, must be for Japanese's good. all your words stated are just distorint and denying all the truth!
Japanese resident on that small narrow island, the people live there are close and narrow minded as well.
a complete wacked out moron!!! review more, and let us see the truth. let people see what Japanese had done to Chinese people during the war. let people see what Unit 731 had done to chinese folks in northeast China. Much more tragic and catastrophic than what Nazi had done in Germany to Jews.
German apologized to Jews, what Japanese cowards have done to Chinese people? you are still denying,denying, and denying. truth is truth, even you deny it, and even you go to hell, they are still the truth. no one could ever conceal them!!!
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Summary: War is hell
Review: This book is a good gauge meter for the atrocity that is War. Everything that is involved with the art of war is permissable in the essence that people are not rational during the peak of confrontation. The Imperial Japanese Army itself was an upstanding unit that fought with the idealism of Purifying the Asian Continent from the Scourge that was the Western World. Many people often bash them as raping, plundering madmen and scream at every utterance from Japan's Current Government that they have apologized enough. Have people forgotten that it was the WEST that did the most damage? Untold millions were subjugated to supplying the Imperialistic Cravings of Britain, France, Germany and even the US. Whole countries were raped for resources, industrialized and brutalized. Opium,(The Boxer Wars), Rubber, even women were used and sent across the Pacific to work in plantations. Was Japan really to blame? Unit 731 is a keen example of the Manchurian Army gone wrong but to blame the entire army for the sins of a small group is pathetic.
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Summary: A War Crimes Indictment for Japan and the USA
Review: This book is probably not only an indictment of Japanese Human Biological Experiments but a condemnation of a US military industrial system that allowed the perpetrators to escape as long as the data fell into US hands and not the Soviets. Basically before WWII the Japanese where world leaders in military medicine and during the Manchurian invasion took Chinese POWs to death camps for medical experimentation to advance science under the guidance of Professor Ishii Shiro, one of the most respected members of the Japanese medical community. The experiments were deemed so advantageous and necessary that the Japanese military built fortresses entirely devoted to human experimentation and bacteria stockpiling. This involved injecting a rat with a bacteria and then allowing a flea in a jar to feed on the rat. By creating stockpiles of infected fleas they would then design bombs to drop the fleas into towns and cities, but not before they experimented on POWs first. One experiment involved arranging POWs tied to crosses in circles in a field and then detonating the infected flea bombs in the centre to see how far the fleas could travel before infecting the host. One of the most documented human experiment programs took place in a location called "Ping Fang" and included surgical work done on POWs not under anaesthetics, freezing POWs for frostbite tests and infecting POWs with Cholera, Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever and THE PLAGUE all of which this book ties to the Japanese civil sector and the government under the control of a special branch called Unit 731. This book even describes Japanese attempts at launching biological attacks on America and how after America took control of the Japans the whole thing was kept quiet so that the US military could get hold of the data as part of its Cold War. The second half of this important book is devoted entirely to witness testimony and confessions. The Japanese or US government have never admitted to these war crimes but the evidence is now available for everyone to see. Many of the death camps and human experimentation factories are still standing today. This is a pocket sized book, but an essential read. My only critic is that it does not contain some of the more famous photographs of Unit 731 in action. This is an essential history lesson that is still a holocaust in denial.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: this book reviewed the cruel and unhumanistic side of the japs. the great pain suffered by the Chinese people. definitely worth reading. thumbs up!
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Summary: Lies aginst a grate people
Review: This is all lies propagated aginst the Japanese culture using 4th and 5 th class doucments not even in book. Almost as bad as Rape of Nanking book lies.
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Summary: Recommened reading by nervegas.com
Review: Unit 731 Testimonial is written as a sort of follow-up to a nationwide tour of the Unit 731 exhibition in Japan. This exhibition sought to educate Japanese citizens on what had been until recently an ignored part of their history. What made these exhibits intereresting, and this book, is that it worked as a forum for veterans and victims alike to recount their stories. Privates, doctors, secret police all came out to speak (some anonimously) about their role in the horrific activities of Unit 731. Unit 731 Testimonial does not describe the history of the Japanese Bilogical Warfare research. Rather it concentrates on the actual experiences of people involved in the human experiments. Some of those quoted were truly ignorant of what Unit 731 was really doing, others had suspicions, while a few knew in detail. Some of those quoted did not actually participate in Unit 731's activities, but had been personally involved in similar atrocities and compelled by the exhibit to recount. Unit 731 is invaluable as a resource in understanding the mentality of the Japanese involved in BW related atrocities during World War II.
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Summary: Unit 731-will we ever know the whole truth?
Review: Unit 731-Testimony, is an all too brief glimpse of an event of WWII that has until recently lain hidden in the shadows of history. The first part walks you through the history of how Japan's efforts to improve medical treatment and prevention for it's soldiers slowly became perverted to a search to perfect biological and chemical weapons by experimenting on living human subjects. The second part is a collection of testimonies given by people who participated in these units. Some of these people told thier story over and over again as a part of a travelling museum that toured Japan to educate it's people to the horror which was carried out in their name, yet is not taught in their schools. As fascinating as it is disturbing, Unit 731-Testimony raises more questions than any single volume could possibly answer.
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Summary: Unit 731
Review: Very non-sensationalized and fair presentation. reads like a text book.
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Summary: YUCK
Review: While not heavy with details, the subject matter is so disgusting that one wonders what the hell were the Japanese thinking. Too bad they didn't stay home and indulge their scientific enthusiasms on themselves. Letting it all hang out can be a mistake.
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