Dark past of Japan’s Unit 731 buried under airport expansion

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A village in Shibayama, Chiba Prefecture, whose residents supplied hundreds of personnel to Japan’s wartime Unit 731, is being demolished for expansion of Tokyo Narita International Airport. Unit 731 conducted lethal experiments on captives to develop biological weapons during World War II, and the redevelopment is drawing attention to that history.

🇯🇵 Location: Shibayama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan — Sources: 1 — First seen: — Last seen:
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