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In his definitive chronicle of Japan’s biowarfare program, [Hal] Gold recounts how Japan’s charismatic surgeon general, Shirō Ishii, hijacked Japan’s blue-chip medical proficiencies, civilian physicians, medical journals and universities, diverting them to serve the so-called “death sciences” of weapons development.
Following the bioweapons culture’s affinity for innocuous euphemisms to disguise sinister purpose, Japan’s biowarfare division adopted the Orwellian title “Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department.”
The more accurate description of Unit 731’s principal proficiencies were poisoning water and causing epidemics.
Unit 731’s diabolical Commander Ishii made himself Japan’s version of Germany’s “Angel of Death,” Dr. Josef Mengele, and transformed occupied Manchuria into a nightmarish bioweapons hellhole during the Sino-Japanese War.
Unit 731 operated 4,500 incubators in Manchuria for breeding plague-infected fleas on rats and mice to disseminate various contagions. Back on the home front, Ishii’s Unit recruited Japanese farmers, soldiers, and youth corps members across Japan to capture and breed rats, and elderly men to ranch fleas on their bodies.
Detachment 731 researchers also used sick dogs to cultivate and spread cholera and ticks to spread hemorrhagic fever and poisoned wells with cholera…
