Japan's infamous Unit 731 : firsthand accounts of Japan's wartime human experimentation program

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-- Japan's infamous Unit Seven Hundred Thirty-One

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Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments. In the first part pf the book, author Hal Gold constructs a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit, giving an overview of its history and detailing its most shocking activities. The second half of the book consists almost entirely of the words of former unit members themselves, taken from remarks they made at a traveling Unit 731 exhibition held around Japan in 1994-95. These people recount their firsthand memories of the atrocities they committed as part of this unit.