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Some background : https://x.com/commiepommie/status/2000548539638898920 (15.12.2025)

Russia Hands China New Evidence on Japan’s Unit 731: War Crimes That Were Never Properly Answered For
China has received a new batch of Russian archival evidence exposing the full scale of Japan’s Unit 731 biological warfare crimes and this time, it’s not testimony, memory, or interpretation.
It’s documents, confessions and trial records.
What is it exactly? 👇
👉 These Russian archives cover 1939–1950 and include:
- Trial transcripts
- Soviet investigation files
- Internal government correspondence
- Medical assessments by microbiologists and war crimes experts
They document the 1949 Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials, where Soviet investigators:
- Identified 200+ individuals linked to Unit 731
- Publicly tried 12 Japanese war criminals
- Extracted confessions admitting biological warfare and human experimentation

This confirms what Japan’s postwar narrative has spent decades trying to deny:
➡️ Unit 731 was a state-run, military-authorised war crime programme.

No “rogue doctors”. No “isolated incidents”.
What Unit 731 actually did? 👇
👉 Based in Harbin, Unit 731:
- Performed live human experiments without anaesthetic
- Infected prisoners with plague, cholera, anthrax and typhus
- Conducted frostbite tests, vivisections and weapons trials on civilians

At least 3,000 people were directly experimented on. Many more died from biological weapons deployed in real-world conditions across China.
This wasn’t science.
This was industrialised murder disguised as research.
The part the West avoids mentioning: 👇
👉 Many Unit 731 scientists:
- Were never prosecuted
- Were given immunity by the United States
- Handed over their data in exchange for freedom
- Later worked in postwar research institutions

That deal buried accountability, not the crimes.
Why this matters now? 👇
👉 China’s Central Archives says these materials:
- Contain previously unknown evidence
- Form a continuous chain of proof
- Leave “no room for dispute”

Translation: denial just got a lot harder.
The timing says everything!
This announcement was made on China’s National Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre.
In 1937, Japanese forces slaughtered ~300,000 civilians in six weeks.
From 1931–1945, Japan’s invasion caused over 35 million Chinese casualties.
China hasn’t forgotten, even if Japan has.
👉 The Unit 731 Exhibition Hall in Harbin:
- Drew over 3 million visitors in 2024
- Is expected to match or exceed that in 2025
👉 One visitor wrote:
“I know the bacteria. I know the equipment. But seeing it all together fills me with anger.”
The uncomfortable truth: 👇
This isn’t about reopening old wounds.
It’s about exposing crimes that were never properly answered for.
When history is suppressed, it doesn’t disappear.
It waits.

📌 Unit 731 wasn’t an atrocity that went unnoticed, it was an atrocity that was protected.

see also https://x.com/MediaUnlock/status/1999721283370770454
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Addition [see eg. Wikipedia: Shiro Ishii]:

The US brought the Unit 731 scientists to the US immediately after Japan surrendered hence they faced no trial for these and many more atrocities. Shiro Ishii continued his bioweapons research in the US. He was brought by the US to Korea and used them on North Koreans during the Korean war. (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54)

ROFTL indeed. But we can submit edits.

Just my view and I don't find psycho villains interesting to watch. I prefer dramas where villains are more grey than black. Interesting characters who we get to know deeply and sympathize with whilst condemning their crimes. Like Lele in The First Shot.

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You're right, of course. I'm wholeheartedly wanting people to find these dramas as I really find them excellent. (But comforting myself by the thought that the domestic audience is enough)

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He brought it to Macau and handed it over

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Agreed.

But they don't know her role yet.

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There were lots of people in the vicinity. The bomb was made to destroy the entire police station - we don't know how modern

Virgin mature male waiting trope is as creepy as Met as Kids trope to me. This one after 18 years, if not a virgin, a rebound one.

Acting is very good. Park Seo Joon, didn't remember he was this good. Not sure about the level of writing yet based on ep 1. Comic sidekick friends are unfunny already. Even mild poop humor is a warning sign.

The mom discouraged ML from jumping into a loveless marriage. ML can just walk away, he has a company of his own.