Eenheid 731

Also known as Kantōgun Bōeki Kyūsuibu Honbu, Manchuria Unit 731, Manshu Detachment 731, Ishii Unit, Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department Headquarters

Unit 731 , officially known as the Manchu Detachment 731 and also referred to as the Kamo Detachment and the Ishii Unit, was a secret research facility operated by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1933 and 1945. It was located in the Pingfang district of Harbin, in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, and maintained multiple branches across mainland China and Southeast Asia.

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Unit 731 was a secret research facility run by the Imperial Japanese Army from 1933 to 1945, located in Harbin (in Japanese-controlled Manchukuo) with branches across China and Southeast Asia. It is historically significant because it represents a major covert military operation during World War II that conducted biological and chemical weapons research.

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Image: Unit 731 - Complex.jpg
Number of deaths: 3000

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Commons category: Unit 731
inception: 1936-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1945-00-00
described at URL: www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/05/29/in-japan-newly-released-archives-reveal-the-scale-of-human-experimentation-between-1938-and-1945_6741787_4.html

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Eenheid 731 (Japans: 731部隊, 731 butai) was een geheime divisie van het Japans Keizerlijk Leger, die vanaf 1932 tot aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog actief was in het door Japan bezette Mantsjoerije. De divisie was vermomd als een onderdeel van het van het Kanto-leger en deed onder meer onderzoek naar biologische wapens door middel van experimenten op mensen.

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