In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945
- Posted on May 29, 2025
- By Le Monde
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In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945

Newly uncovered documents confirm Japan's ambition to develop biological weapons during the Pacific War. The infamous Unit 731 of the Imperial Army in Harbin, China, was not the only group to use human test subjects.