masayuki yoshida wrote:

> > > Isn't it. How come some Japanese investigators would even know about the
> > > existence or activities of Unit 731, not known or revealed to the public
> > > until the 90s, fifty years ago? I should say that
> >
> > Um, you're gonna have to clear up these dates; did you mean the 60s? Ienaga
> > wrote about it.
>
> Correct.  I have once heard that the first report over Unit 731 popped up in a kasutori
> magazine or something in the 50s.  Seiichi Morimura, mystery novelist, published a
> documentary book on the subject, the book became a million seller in 1981 or 1982.  The
> story of the evil experiment has been ubiquitously talked amonst Japanese ever since
> then.

So why the surprise among the general public as recently as the 90s when aged soldiers
came forward or researchers publicized their findings and people created a traveling
exhibit? Why the cover-ups as when suspicious bodies found buried in mass graves in Tokyo
are simply disposed of? Why the government denials? And why don't students know?

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