C Lund wrote:

> > Whenever anyone sees the words "Japanese Whaling"
> > I want them to see live vivisection on human POWs awake and without
> > anesthetic.
>
> Why? The two have nothing to do with each other.
>
> > It's going to cost FACE to slaughter whales -- each whale
> > gets one Jap FACE ripped off. Frankly, I like Whales more than I like
> > Japanese.
>
> > There's a price to pay for hounding animals not yet recovered from near
> > extinction, and the sleazy methods the Japs are using to get their way
>
> ... bear a striking resemblance to the sleazy methods Greenpeace use
> to get *their* way...

OH NO. I'm willing to use much worse methods -- I'm reminding people
about JAPANESE "SCIENCE" UNIT 731 METHODS. Scientific Whaling and UNIT
731. Every time you hear whaling, think Japanese Science Unit 731.
Everybody in the whole world will think Unit 731 = Japanese Whaling.
Every mouthfull of whale loses Japanes FACE.

http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/germwar/index.html

 Japanese Germ War and Experimentation on Humans

 Unlocking a deadly secret
http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/germwar/germwar.htm
An in-depth report of the human experimentation by Unit 731 and other
Japanese armies.

Review of the studies on the Germ Warfare
http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/germwar/731rev.htm
A historians view on the subject of Japanese Germ Warfare and the
American cover-up.

Experimants on American POWs
http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/germwar/uspow.htm
How American POWs were treated and the consequence for the their
murderers.

A Japanese studies the Germ War history (IN Chinese GB)
http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/germwar/jap.gemwar.gb

http://www.ww2pacific.com/unit731.html
Japanese Unit 731
Biological Warfare Unit


      War Crimes Against Humanity

      Japanese Imperial Army's Unit 731 killed thousands of Chinese and
Russians held prisoner in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, in experiments
to develop chemical and biological weapons.

      In the autumn of 1945, MacArthur acceded to granting immunity to
members of Unit 731 in exchange for data of research on biological
warfare. "The value to the U.S. of Japanese BW data is of such
importance to national security as to far outweigh the value accruing
from war crimes' prosecution." The BW information obtained from
Japanese sources should be retained in 'top secret' intelligence
channels and not be employed as war crimes evidence and not be fallen
into the Soviet hands.  The State Department disagreed over a two year
period and the topic simply disappeared.

      Why did the US lose interest in pursuing the issue of war
criminals?  China became communist,  Japan was a required base for
operations in Korea, and Japan became a major trading partner and
economic power in the East.
      Unit 731
          o 1925 -- Japan refuses Geneva Convention ban on biological
weapons.
          o 1932 -- Japanese troops invade Manchuria. Shiro Ishii, a
physician and army officer who was intrigued by germ warfare, begins
preliminary experiments.
          o 1936 -- Unit 731, a biological-warfare unit disguised as a
water-purification unit, is formed. Ishii builds huge compound -- more
than 150 buildings over six square kilometers -- outside the city of
Harbin, Manchuria. Some 9,000 test subjects eventually die at the
compound.
          o 1942 -- Ishii begins field tests of germ warfare on Chinese
soldiers and civilians. Tens of thousands die of bubonic plague,
cholera, anthrax and other diseases. U.S. soldiers captured in
Philippines are sent to Manchuria.
          o 1945 -- Japanese troops blow up the headquarters of Unit
731 in final days of Pacific war. Ishii orders 150 remaining 'subjects'
killed to cover up their experimentation.
          o 1946 -- U.S. makes a deal with Ishii for germ warfare data
based on human experimentation in exchange for immunity from war-crimes
prosecution.

            Sources: ''Factories of Death,'' by Sheldon H. Harris
(Rutledge, 1994)
            and ''Prisoners of the Japanese: POWS of World War II in
the Pacific,'' by Gavan Daws (William Morrow, 1994).

       Japan's biological weapons program was born in the 1930s, in
part because Japanese officials were impressed that germ warfare had
been banned by the Geneva Protocol of 1925. If it was so awful that it
had to be banned under international law, the officers reasoned, it
must make a great weapon. Establishment of two biological warfare Units
731 and 100 in Manchuria in 1933 because of the number of test subjects
available. Harbin in Manchuria was the headquarters of Unit 731. Ishii
promoted to full colonel with 3,000 Japanese working under him. In
addition of bacteriological warfare, studies were also conducted on
human damage done by burns, freezing, high pressure, and bullets.
Former members of the unit say that at least 3,000 people and by some
accounts several times that number were killed in the medical
experiments in which none survived.

      "After infecting him, the researchers decided to cut him open to
see what the disease does to a man's inside. I cut him open from the
chest to the stomach and he screamed terribly and his face was all
twisted in agony. made this unimaginable sound, he was screaming so
horribly. This was all in a day's work for the surgeons, but it really
left an impression on me because it was my first time."

      The human experimentation did not take place just in Unit 731,
nor was it a rogue unit acting on its own. Prince Mikasa, toured Unit
731's headquarters in China and wrote in his memoirs that he was shown
films showing how Chinese prisoners were "made to march on the plains
of Manchuria for poison gas experiments on humans."  Premier Tojo
personally presented an award to Ishii for his contribution to
developing biological weapons.

      The Japanese army regularly conducted field tests to see whether
biological warfare would work outside the laboratory. Planes dropped
plague-infected fleas over Ningbo in eastern China and over Changde in
north-central China and plague outbreaks were later reported.

      Japanese troops also dropped cholera and typhoid cultures in
wells and ponds, but the results were often counterproductive. In 1942,
germ warfare specialists distributed dysentery, cholera and typhoid in
Zhejiang Province in China. but Japanese soldiers themselves became ill
and 1,700 died of the diseases.
      Planned Bacterial Attack on the United States.

      Proposals included use of these weapons against the United
States. They proposed using balloon bombs to carry disease to America
and they had a plan in the summer of 1945 to use kamikaze pilots to
dump plague infected fleas on San Diego.

      Some Japanese generals proposed loading the balloons with weapons
of biological warfare, to create epidemics of plague or anthrax in the
United States. Other army units wanted to send cattle plague virus to
wipe out the American livestock industry or grain smut to wipe out the
crops.  As it happened, 9,000 balloons each carried four incendiary and
one antipersonnel bomb across the Pacific on the jet stream to create
forest fires and terror from Oregon to Michigan.

      As the end of the war approached in 1945, Unit 731 embarked on
its wildest scheme; codenamed Cherry Blossoms at Night, the plan was to
use kamikaze pilots to infest California with the plague.

      Toshimi Mizobuchi, who was an instructor for new recruits in Unit
731, said the idea was to use 20 of the 500 new troops who arrived in
Harbin in July 1945. A submarine was to take a few of them to the seas
off Southern California, and then they were to fly in a plane carried
on board the submarine and contaminate San Diego with plague-infected
fleas. The target date was to be Sept. 22, 1945.  As it happened, the
fleet of submarine seaplane carriers that assembled was assigned to
launch torpedoes at the locks in the Panama canal, but that was changed
to attack the US fleet at Ulith just as the war ended.
      Cover up.

      As the Japanese army retreated from China as the war was ending,
plague-infected animals were released  and caused outbreaks of the
plague that killed at least 30,000 people in the Harbin area from 1946
through 1948.

      "Iishi and his colleagues received immunity from prosecution and
... in exchange they provided a great deal of information to U.S.
authorities."   In particular, they provided the results of "field
tests" in which hundreds of thousands of civilians in China and eastern
Russia were exposed to and died from deadly germs such as anthrax and
plague.
      Poison Gas

      At the outbreak of the Wusung-shanghai campaign on August 13,
1937, the Japanese army used poison gas against Chinese troops. In the
succeeding eight years of war, Japan had used poison gases 1,131 times
in 14 Chinese provinces.
      Biological Warfare.

      On at least five occasions during the first two years the
Japanese armed forces tried to employ bacteriological warfare in China.
They have tried to produce epidemics of plague in Free China by
scattering plague-infected materials with airplanes.

      These five times are: October 4, 1940, when Japanese airplane
dropped plague bacteria at Chuhsien in Chechiang province which caused
the deaths of 21 people. On the 29th of the same month, Japanese
airplane spread plague bacteria at Ningpo, Chechiang which caused the
deaths of 99 people. On November 28 of the same year, Japanese
airplanes dropped a large quantity of germs at Chinhua but no deaths
were reported. In January 1941 Japan spread plague germs in Suiyuan and
Ninghsia provinces and again in Shansi that caused serious epidemic
outbreaks of plague in these areas.  When too many Japanese soldiers
also died, the attacks were suspended.
      Japan Admits Dissecting WW-II POWs

      On May 5, 1945, an American B-29 bomber was knocked down over
southern Japan. Eight American airmen prisoners were made available for
medical experiments at Kyushu Imperial University. The eight were
dissected organ by organ while they were still alive.

      This is the only site where Americans were incontrovertibly used
in dissections and the only known site where experiments were done in
Japan. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, is midway between Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
      Trial.

      Thirty people were brought to trial by an Allied War Crimes
Tribunal in Yokohama, Japan, on March 11, 1948. Charges included
vivisection and wrongful removal of body parts; 23 were found guilty of
various charges. Five of the guilty were sentenced to death. None of
the death sentences was carried out. By 1958, all those convicted were
free.  The Soviet Union also held trials.  Sentences there were carried
out.
      War Crimes Trial

      High-level Japanese war criminals were tried by the International
Military Tribunal for the Far East. The prosecution team was made up of
justices from eleven Allied nations: Australia, Canada, China, France,
Great Britain, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines,
the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The Tokyo trial
lasted two and a half years, from May 1946 to November 1948.  The
principle charges were making aggressive war and allowing atrocities
against POWs and civilians.
      The Verdict

      Two of the twenty-eight defendants died of natural causes during
the trial. One had a mental breakdown on the first day of trial, was
sent to a psychiatric ward and was released in 1948. The remaining
twenty-five were found guilty. Seven were sentenced to death by
hanging, sixteen to life imprisonment, and two to lesser terms. All
seven sentenced to death were found to be guilty of inciting mass-scale
atrocities, among other counts, and hanged Dec. 23. Three of the
sixteen sentenced to life imprisonment died in prison. The remaining
thirteen were paroled between 1954 and 1956, with less than eight years
in prison for their crimes against millions of people.