masayuki yoshida wrote:

> "masayuki yoshida" <ysd_m@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> news:bgqnp2$rinn0$1@ID-201147.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >
> > > > 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.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/jafz says:
>
> <<Most Japanese citizens were unaware of the unit's activities until 1981, when author
> Seiichi Morimura exposed the unit's dark history in a book, "The Devil's Gluttony". Many
> of the unit's doctors and researchers became heads of medical and pharmaceutical firms
> in post-war Japan.

Why don't you dispute this quote that "most Japanese" were ignorant before 1981, or even
later? Why don't you keep on claiming the Japanese public knew since the 1950s?

> The Japanese government has never formally apologized for Unit 731's activities,

Any disagreement from you?

> and did not even admit to its existence until August 1998,

Any disagreement from you?

> when the Supreme Court ruled that the
> existence of the unit was accepted in academic circles.

My goodness. As recently as 1998, it was necessary for the Supreme Court to decide that even
just among ACADEMICS, was the mere EXISTENCE of Unit 731 "accepted" (as opposed to FACT
known and accepted by the Japanese public).

Please, Masayuki, Mike, or anyone else, please, please, tell us all about how much Japanese
know about the Unit 731 issue since the1950s.

> In 1995, families of Chinese victims filed a lawsuit demanding the Japanese government
> pay compensation of 100 million yen (US$826,000)>>

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