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Japan's Shift To Offensive Biowarfare
- Japan developed ambitious biological and chemical warfare programs before WWII under military medical leadership.
- Those programs shifted from disease prevention to offensive experiments and weaponization in Manchuria.
Prisoners Rehabilitated For Experiments
- Shiro Ishii nursed prisoners back to health to test how diseases affected normal, healthy people and armies.
- Prisoners were force-fed, exercised, then bled, starved, injected, or vivisected without anaesthetic.
Creating And Weaponizing Pathogens
- Unit 731 cultivated plague and other pathogens using serial human infections and blood harvesting.
- They bred fleas and infected them as delivery vectors to spread disease intentionally over civilian areas.