"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.

The Japanese government has never formally apologized for Unit 731's activities, and did
not even admit to its existence until August 1998, when the Supreme Court ruled that the
existence of the unit was accepted in academic circles.

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

Masayuki