4. Germ Warfare
Infectious warfare was one of the deadliest Japanese war crimes definitely made say that Imperial Japan was worse than the Nazis. Japanese soldiers purposefully exposed Chinese citizens to terrible illnesses like the plague that killed millions while they were waging World War II.
The Japanese general Shiro Ishii built a hospital close to Harbin, which was then a part of Manchukuo, a puppet state of Japan, in the late 1930s. The institution was referred to by the general public as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Unit. But Ishii had really founded the infamous Unit 731, which carried out a series of horrifying medical experiments on humans.
They also allegedly carried out experiments intended to weaponize illnesses. To produce samples of cholera, typhoid, and other deadly infections, they performed brutal vivisections on the prisoners.
This germ warfare may cause up to 300,000 innocent deaths, but it took quite some time for any type of justice to be put out. That’s because the U.S. undercover offered asylum to Ishii and his associates in return for access to their cruel study after the war.
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