Dr. bitter anko wrote:
> Sorry to say, but no matter how you rant, no jap would care. Actually
> the japs consider all those anti-whaling activities of your people as
> merely the usual anti-jap campaigns of funny classic Anglo-Saxon
> racists, or some sort of mass hysteria of outdated ethnocentric
> arrogant and conceited bigots having trouble to adjust themselves to
> the liberated modern world. They know even if they stop whaling, you
> will blame other things about the japs because they know you just want
> to abuse the japs by your usual racist attitude.
>
> Japanese Whaling Science Unit 731 のメッセージ:

Poor Jappy, everybody picking on poor innocent jappy. Poor
misunderstood innocent jappy doing jappy science.

This is the only kind of science poor innocent misunderstood jappy
knows how to do...

http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/germwar/731rev.htm

IV. U.S. Prisoners of War Used for Experiment by Unit 731 and the Issue
of American Use of Biological Warfare in Korean War

As early as January 6, 1946, the Pacific Stars and Stripes, an official
organ of the U.S. Army, reported that Americans were among the victims
of Ishii's human experiments. A week later, similar reports was ensued
in New York Times, hence news about Allied prisoners of war to have
been used as human guinea pigs were sporadically divulged. An U.S.
government document dated August 1947 has this to say:

    It should be kept in mind that there is a remote-possibility that
independent investigation conducted by the Soviets in the Mukden area
may have disclosed evidence that American prisoners of war were used
for experimental purposes of a BW nature and that they lost their lives
as a result of these experiments.

Until 1956, the Federal Bureau of Investigation continued to accept as
fact that U.S. prisoners of war were used in human experiments. In the
1960s, the issue no longer riveted the public interest. In 1976,
Japanese television broadcast a documentary entitled "A Bruise-Terrors
of the 731 corps," which rekindled the public interest which grew apace
in America in the 1980s. Out of 1,485 Allied white prisoners of war
taken to Mukden, 1, 174 were Americans. In their first winter (1942-43)
at Mukden, 430 perished, most Americans. No matter how desperate
American survivors from Mukden, like Gregory Rodriquez of Oklahoma,
tried to tell how they were used by Unit 731 for human experiments, an
accusation verified by Naoji Uezono, former member of Unit 731, U.S.
Congress turned a deaf ear , thereby being irresponsible for paying
their medical benefits and compensations. A British Major Robert Peaty
kept a diary while detained in Mukden that gives sufficient evidence of
Unit 731's using Allied prisoners of war as guinea pigs. Another
Australian doctor R. J. Brennan also kept a diary, indicating that how
the prisoners of war underwent experimentation. What bothered him most
was one day 150 American prisoners were forced to march out of the
camp, from which they never returned.

For over ten years, Rodriquez's son has persistently lobbied in
Washington on behalf of his father and other survivors from Mukden. Not
only does he ask for compensations to the victims; moreover he wants
that the crimes of Japan using the prisoners of war for human
experiments be known to the world. He told this writer that there is a
former Mukden prisoner now living in Oklahoma who was taken to
Pingfang, Harbin. The chapter "BW Experiments on Prisoners of War?" of
Harris's new book has given great details, but had some discrepancies
in figures. Also it is hard to accept his conclusion. He says that
death rate at Mukden Camp was about 12 percent, almost all being
Americans. Both Jack-Roberts of the royal Army Medical Corps and Frank
James, a sergeant in the U.S. signal Company, confirmed that in that
first winter, 430 men died. In the August 6, 1943 entry of Major
Peaty's diary, "there are now 208 dead"; in the November 21, 1943
entry, "there are now over 230 dead." 430 plus 230 have made 44 percent
of the Mukden POW population. Further, how many more deaths would have
been in the next two years!

According to Harris's tally, there were only 238 POW dead at Mukden
Camp and 1,617 survivors, figures which are far apart from those given
by former British and American POWs at Mukden. His conclusion is that
"American POWs may have been victims of BW tests, but there is no
substantive evidence to prove that the experiments took place at Camp
Mukden."

It is unthinkable that Harris wrote only two pages on the issue of U.S.
using biological warfare in the Korean War, which he apparently did not
want to talk about; in contrast, Williams and Wallace used 51 pages,
one-sixth of the whole book dealing with the subject. China and North
Korean began to accuse the United States of using CW and BW on March 5,
1951, a campaign which was stopped only with the conclusion of the war
in 1953. Most importantly, International Science Committee composed of
renown "Leftist" scientists sent a delegation to China and North Korea,
whose investigation lent support to the accusation. This writer would
take issue with Professor Harris for his using the term "Leftist."
Could we ask: Is J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of atomic bomb" also
labeled Leftist scientist? Does being Leftist make one non-scientific?
And then how about "Rightist" scientist? The six that came to China and
North Korea included Dr. Joseph Needham who just died last March.
Needham's studies of Chinese culture (he had studied the history of
Chinese science and technology for over fifty years) and his concern
for China had won esteem of Chinese intellectuals both in Taiwan and
the Mainland, who would not question the results of his investigation
and regard them as propaganda. Harris believes that the issue of
American use of biological warfare cannot be clarified until archives
of all countries concerned are open. Surely we hope this can be
realized soon, but at the same time should point out that the release
of more archival materials cannot overthrow a scientific investigation
already made.

Also, Harris tried to water down the issue of confession given by U.S.
airmen under captivity. Col. Frank H. Schwable was the chief of the
First Marine Air Wing. After having been captured, Schwable and Major
Roy Bley made "confessions" stating that "the joint Chiefs of Staff had
directed U.S. forces to carry out planned germ warfare and that the
order was part of a directive given to General Ridgway in October 1951"
(New York Times, February 23, 1953).

At least as important as Schwable were Col. Walker F. Mahurin, World
War II fighter ace and an assistant executive to US Secretary for Air
Finletter, and Col. Andrew J. Evans, a former secretary to Air Chief of
Staff Vandenberg. Before coming to Korea, Mahurin was commander of the
First Fighter Interceptor Group in California which supplied men and
equipment to the 51st and 4th fighter wings near Seoul. After being
released, Mahurin was elected as spokesman for all POW fliers. All the
25 airmen who made confession under captivity had repudiated their
confessions and denied BW charges. But Mahurin wrote his memoirs
(Honest John published by Putnam of New York without date) which
reveals and contradicts some of his sworn repudiation to his
confession.

Any fair-minded person would not believe that the United States had
tried to unleash a large-scale biological warfare in the Korean war.
Needham said in reminiscence:

    I felt then, and still feel, that attacks using toxic aerosols
would have been far more dangerous, but I think the Americans just
wanted to see what degree of success could be obtained with the
essentially Japanese methods. My judgment was never based on anything
which the downed airmen had said, but rather entirely on the
circumstantial evidence.

As a matter of fact, over the issue of whether or not the United States
was engaged in biological warfare, irrefutable evidence is still
lacking; hopefully it could be resolved in the near future. Should it
then prove that the U.S. indeed used biological warfare, one would not
be surprised. Let us bear in mind that at his November 30, 1950 news
conference, when asked "Does mean that there is active consideration of
the use of the atomic bomb?" President Truman said: "There has always
been active consideration of its use. I don't want to see it used. It
is a terrible weapon."