Both the United States and Great Britain tested biological weapons during World War II, but for ethical reasons such tests were limited to animal subjects. Japanese medical officer Shiro Ishii had no ...

FOUR people in America have now died of anthrax, and many others have been infected. The United States is experiencing frightening times but, thanks to a little known episode from the Second World War ...

The story of Lieutenant-General Ishii Shiro and his Unit 731 should stand as a warning – not so much against human wickedness, about which little can be done, but against gullibility. Unlike his ...

After more than 60 years of silence, World War II's most enduring and horrible secret is being nudged into the light of day. One by one the participants, white-haired and mildmannered, line up to tell ...

Editors’ note: Under the overall codename Project Paperclip US intelligence agencies made similarly diligent efforts to acquire the research records of Nazi doctors working in the death camps. They ...

Japanese army doctor Shiro Ishii ran the notorious Unit 731 and was responsible for gruesome human experiments designed to develop Japan's germ warfare systems. Like his Nazi counterpart, Josef ...

In this desperate situation, he visited Ishii Shiro of Unit 731, viewing biological weapons as a trump card to reverse the military disadvantage. However, he was informed that the weapons had not yet ...

The Red Army together with Mongolian units defeated the Japanese invaders who had intruded into the territory of the Mongolian People's Republic MOSCOW, August 30. /TASS/. By the 85th anniversary of ...

Newly surfaced evidence from declassified U.S. archives details the atrocities committed by the Unit-731 of the Japanese invasion army in conducting biological warfare in China. Recent research has ...

The story of Lieutenant-General Ishii Shiro and his Unit 731 should stand as a warning – not so much against human wickedness, about which little can be done, but against gullibility. Unlike his ...