Dark past of Japan’s Unit 731 buried under airport expansion

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A village in Shibayama, Chiba Prefecture, whose residents supplied hundreds of personnel to Japan’s wartime Unit 731, is being demolished for expansion of Tokyo Narita International Airport. Unit 731 conducted lethal experiments on captives to develop biological weapons during World War II, and the redevelopment is drawing attention to that history.

A village that sent hundreds of men to one of imperial Japan’s most notorious wartime units is being demolished to make way for a runway at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport. Unit 731 carried out lethal experiments on captives, many of them Chinese, to develop biological weapons during the second world war. Around 300 of its roughly 3,000 personnel came from Kamo, a neighbourhood in Shibayama town, Chiba prefecture, east of the capital. Its founder and commander, Lieutenant General Shiro...