| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Physical description |
xxx, 385 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1 Japanese Factories of Death -- Chapter 1 Manchuria 3 -- Chapter 2 Ishii Shiro 13 -- Chapter 3 Beiyinhe Bacteria Factory 27 -- Chapter 4 Phase 1: Building Ping Fan 39 -- Chapter 5 Phase 2: Hell in Ping Fan 53 -- Chapter 6 Secret of Secrets: Human Experiments 75 -- Chapter 7 Death Factory in Changchun 113 -- Chapter 8 Death Factory in Nanking 135 -- Chapter 9 Experiments on Prisoners of War 151 -- Chapter 10 Who Knew? 177 -- Part 2 American Cover-ups -- Chapter 11 American Biological Warfare Program 201 -- Chapter 12 Discovery of the Secret of Secrets 217 -- Chapter 13 Investigations 239 -- Chapter 14 Scientists and the Cover-up 263 -- Chapter 15 Military and the Cover-up 285. |
| Summary |
Before and During World War II, Japanese scientists conducted experiments on live human beings in a quest to develop a biological warfare program; eventually, their efforts led to the first wartime use of anthrax, small pox, and the plague. But while the horror of similar Nazi experiments paled in comparison, the scientists were granted immunity from the American prosecution of war crimes in exchange for the results of their experiments. Factories of Death is the definitive story of Unit 731, the covert biological warfare group led by Ishii Shiro -- the Josef Mengele of the Pacific Theater. Based on field research in China and Japan, interviews with scientists and victims, and declassified intelligence records, this updated edition continues to uncover Unit 731's legacy: environmental disasters in China, historical revisionism in Japan, America's own biological warfare program, and postwar American and Japanese medical ethics. |
| Subject |
Japan. Rikugun. KantÅgun. Butai, Dai 731 -- History.
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Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Biological warfare -- China -- Manchuria.
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United States -- Military relations -- Japan.
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Japan -- Military relations -- United States.
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Manchuria (China) -- History -- 1931-1945.
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| ISBN |
0415932149 (alkaline paper) |
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