I once had a science teacher who had one third of his tongue sliced of by a Japanese Officer during his brutal imprisonment as an Australian soldier during WW2. He used to suffer terrible anxiety attacks and claustrophobia if he was too crowded by students, of course he had a shocking lisp but we understood him and as kids we understood and respected his trauma. There were many like him who were brilliant characters who carried the scars of brutal inhumanity deep psychologically, often there loathing and stoic unforgiveness in later generations was confused with racist attitudes etched deep within the Aussie psyche but it was far more complex then cultural identity, it was actual abhorrence of brutal inhumanity a soldier's lot during times of ill defined PTSD, there was no such thing as victimology they were simply casualties of war, you either lived or died. I recognised these traits even as a child as a Grandfather had never forgiven the Germans during WW1 for the use of mustard gas attacks, the Battle of the Somme. What they endured as soldiers was horrific and it remains the same today. There is only one conclusion all wars suck.
A very touching story, Ian. Thank you for sharing. Absolutely war is a horror and it must stop. I’m thankful beyond measurement for Trump. My brother has been on 6 tours in Afghanistan, and is finally returning home! Godspeed!
The US constructed a "replica Japanese village" in Montana in the 1940s. Same wood, same carpentry methods, roofing and so on. We optimized incendiary bombs then deployed them there for testing. Worked "great". During the Tokyo firebombings we killed 100,000 civilians in one night. Deliberately put the bombs down where they would create firestorms. The winds were so strong that people were sucked into the fires. Time Magazine wrote, "Japanese cities, if properly kindled, burned like autumn leaves. Two nuclear strikes, on civilians. There were big Navy bases waiting for us to come calling. The weapons could have been used on combatants, as is the custom of Just War. I grew up around World War 2 vets in the US. They had a deep instinctive reaction to anyone from Asia. They especially hated Japanese. Hate as in they would have killed them on the spot if given even a small reason. For years Japanese who came to the US never quite knew what they were getting into when they came here. There was a lot of hatred in the war, especially on a race basis. Wars do suck. Race wars suck even more.
Most of my world war 2 vet friends were working people. They were an interesting bunch - hard nosed, rough, but kindly. They saw every little boy as a man who needed raised up right. They would hit me, and also encourage me. They would say, "You can do better!!". They never talked about the war. They lived their lives as men, men who understood comradeship and who despised weakness. Cowardice offended them. Worse? Quit. Go ahead and try it. Your ass got a boot. A "quitter" was offensive to them.
@@jamallabarge2665 I'm a chicken coward, but also a girl, so it's ok then. The young though, they always feel invincible. War is rich old white men sending poor young men to die for profit and population control.
They lied to save their Japanese culture and race and they are arrogant to this day to acknowlege their evil past, even in their country make it a taboo to even mention their emperor revered as god, howbeit I wld say worst than an evil witch doctor. And shld be burnt along with their 2.6 million soldiers for war crimes
My god, the lack of empathy and remorse of Toshimi Mizobuchi is stunning. Still after all these years calling human beings 'logs', and talking about asphyxiating them with methane as if it were matter of fact. None of those people were criminals, they were just innocent farmers and villagers. He even has the audacity to say he would do it again. Unbelievable cruelty. Toshimi Mizobuchi is obviously a true psychopath.
That unapologetic old man who runs goddamned reunion trips for 731 scares me more than any modern serial killer, any rapist, hell; most post-war Nazis I can think of. He still sees his victims as 'logs.' It's terrifying! These men are the equivalents of proud, free Eichmanns & Mengeles. That man destroyed records of a holocaust on film & felt nothing--and my country made sure he remains free. Imagine Mengele being in charge of Harvard; that's what the freedom of these monsters is. Only a forcibly enlisted child they call a traitor among them is capable of apology.
"They were criminals who had been sentenced to death. We were merely acting as the executioners." I just can't believe how ignorant that quote is. Why aren't the Japanese executing and experimenting on their own criminals then.
SuJoMon S A few individual members of the Japanese BW program conducted experiments on Japanese civilians years after WW2. One of them was a former member of Unit 1644 and his name was Masami Kitaoka. He deliberately infected people, including mental patients, with rickettsia and typhus. :(
@@Bj-yf3im Next experiments: Cancer, HIV, CRISPR-Cas9 gene alteration, artificial insemination with gene modified feti, these feti will develop dwarfism, progeria, Hallerman-Streiff, Goldenhar, or whatever syndrome.
@Lai Đại Hàn -ライダイハン Because the evil regime of US made a dirty deal with Japan in return for all their biological germ warfare by not prosecuting their unit 731 for all their wicked atrocities and crimes against chinese civilians using them as guinea pigs to experiment on bubonic plagues and diseases like cholera etc. A quarter million chinese were victimised and died.
This is what happens when you start seeing others as less than human beings. When you stop thinking about how this stranger had a mother and a father, brothers, sisters, children that loved him/her, how he/she had dreams and hopes, likes, dislikes, a view of the world. Instead you reduce them to "things" which you deem unworthy of your empathy.
they treated their dogs better than the humans that they brutally slaughtered. thousands of lives were inevitably affected by the cruelty of the japanese.
As bad as Japan was, look at what China's CCP is currently doing to their Muslim Uyghur population. It's a fullscale extermination program much like Hitler's infamous Final Solution to kill off the Jews. Same thing. Biden calls it "a cultural norm" as he tacitly approved of it. Where is the US outrage?
Juan, I respect other people's possessions more than these people cared about the lives of children. There is something invariably wrong with the way human beings are wired in order for this to keep happening, and war be used as an excuse for it.
@@MaPrincesse - The part with dreams ,likes, view of the world, etc., had nothing to do with family. Your too sensitive, possibly because you don't have a family (no uncles, aunts, cousins ?????? - they ARE family also.)
9:41 The rooms that we kept the logs in ... And then he proceeds to describe how they gassed the "logs" to death. I'm proud of what we did. I would do it again, it was an interesting unit This man is unbelievable.
If he's not a natural born psychopath, this belief might be a way to deal with the trauma. It's called diminishing cognitive dissonance (or something); if he accepted that he committed atrocious acts, he might not be able to live with himself. Instead his brain chose to firmly believe in ready explanation given to the soldiers (that they're just executing criminals) to somehow deal with reality. In the end, there is a difference between the first grandpa and this man. The first one was a simple soldier who followed horrendous orders, the other was in a position of responsibility and was GIVING those orders. If one can possibly forgive themselves and be forgiven for following orders, how could this man come to terms of his deeds? If he does have empathy, he would lose his mind. He cannot deny that he wasn't there, but he can deny that it wasn't bad. After all, they all got rewarded for it after the war...
@@Upioornica It's a good explanation, but I don't think that this man really felt any trauma. Just by referring to them as the "logs", You can understand that he feels that he's superior, and justified to do whatever he wants to these "logs".
And the Chinese are no better, they deny what they've done to HK and Muslims just the same. In the end the CCP and Japanese government are one in the same
As a Japanese student, it is absolutely sickening to see this. I can confirm that the Japanese textbooks barely mentions about these brutal experiments and massacres that have occurred throughout histories. Even my history teacher would teach that is was for the “better good.” I was baffled when I only saw two sentences, yes TWO SENTENCES, about the Nanking massacre where there should be a whole Unit about it. And in addition to that, I never knew about Unit731 until recently because they never taught us about it in school. Japan needs to start acknowledging their past and stop avoiding it.
Don't feel too stressed, pretty much all countries, peoples, groups have committed horrible things to fellow humans. There will always be tribal minded people defending their own groups actions whilst playing up the crimes of another. The Japanese government would lose nothing to admit the truths of what happened and to acknowledge the pain caused. But China is certainly using the issue as propaganda for their own interests. It's just sad as humans we can't just move forward together understanding we are all capable of evil and to commit to easing tensions and hostility in hopes to not have such things happen again. Unfortunately I don't think we are anywhere near that point
I understand that the other members of the unit HAVE to believe that the victims were criminals, and they were simply the executioners. But something about a man showing no remorse or trauma for vivisecting another human is just utterly disgusting and baffling. "If i was younger, I'd consider doing it again" a monster is made slowly over time, but this guy is truly a monster.
He said working in that unit was "interesting." There are some people who would like to show him how interesting they found it. And apparently there are holocaust deniers in the west and also war crime deniers in the east. And people in power everywhere who are willing to advance their power on the backs of their own people.
It's about time that the ever so innocent Japanese military have some light shed on what they did during WW II. Our POW's were starved, tortured and murdered in their death camps.
Definitely. But an important principal of western/Biblical law is that children not be punished for the sins of their fathers. But reminded of their fathers sins, 100% agree. Also remember that Japan is now one of our (America's) best allies.
I love the empathy and understanding the woman who leads the Chinese villagers affected by the Japanese’s biological warfare and experiments for the Japanese man who apologized and understands that all he knew was what he was told to do, deeply unsettled by it and with deep regret. He took accountability and they accepted him and treated him with respect and understanding.
I have to say I was deeply moved by that one Japanese man’s apology to the village. There are still people holding positions of power within Japan who are directly connected to these atrocities. The Japanese government can help those affected far more than one person ever could, yet they’re all perfectly happy to pretend this never happened. But then there’s this guy- he flew himself out there to stand, alone, in front of hundreds of people whose lives he had a hand in destroying to tell them: "I am responsible for what happened to you". There’s nothing he can offer to help them or to right what he’s done, but he still went. After watching this video and seeing how few have stood forward, I realized that hearing this man’s words is what these people needed more than anything else. (It's seriously annoying how they recognized the importance of this man's apology, yet didn't bother to fully translate it. The commentary that played over was good but come on, guys!)
I think in the end his fate should belong to those of the town he terrorized. I get the position he was put in, yet at the same time I personally could never forgive this and would probably attempt to kill him on sight if he had taken part in the things he did. Keep in mind these were THE worst atrocities committed by mankind taking place in this lab. Dissecting people alive, hanging people upside down until death, injecting people with piss and other bodily fluids then starving them until they rotted to death, testing flame throwers & radiation poisoning on random people, giving out poisoned candy to local village children just to watch them die and many more atrocities are amongst the things they did. There is no apology that works for that, and sometimes people simply have to be eradicated for the things they have done.
Who gets to point the finger? Senegal still pays colonial tax. America infected its population with siphilus. China oversaw the starvation of 100 million people. Who has clean hands?
Jake, you need one more history lesson that I recently learned. Our government wanted war with Japan and wanted them to strike first to give us an excuse; Roosevelt was the POTUS that was in charge of this and it worked. They knew through intelligence that Japan was coming in and didn't stop them. Google it.
Japan, just tell the truth like Germany did. German are well respected today by everyone because they're are afraid to teach history and that is how one learn from the mistakes and gain it's respect. Japan on the other hand is not even teaching world war 2 in high school? This just tells me they're afraid of their own past.
@@Japinoyboi2004 It's not just about the apology. It's about teaching the truth. Apologies are not sincere when you try to hide the truth or ignore details. Some Japanese people have the audacity to deny the facts. Japan should realize that just because their ancestors committed these crimes it doesn't mean the youth today are guilty. It doesn't mean you can't be proud of your culture. You can be proud, but they need to be taught the truth. Not to feel guilty, but to contemplate the genuine atrocities of war.
Could have saved some time and typed out "derp" would have been the same thing. People who don't know the mistakes of the past will repeat them. People can see the early warning signs and if they're not too much of a pussy take care of the problem
Imagine how shocking the first time you got punched was. Now imagine the levels of trauma of experiencing human pain. Being cut open. Being purposefuly experimented with poisons. Shot, stabbed with bayonets, lit on fire. Shot in the back of the thigh, and the adrenaline kicks out. Being hit with heavy bullets from machine guns and still being alive. Even if you die instantly you still experience that insane pain.
Japan is insanely sensitive to “losing face”, as they call it. What others think is one of the most important things. That’s why they won’t admit their war crimes, I think. If you’re Japanese or have lived there, then you know exactly what I mean. I lived there for many years and believe me, Japan “did bad things” on a daily basis. Just because you dont acknowledge it, doesn’t make it not true
Hopefully young Japanese will learn what really happened and follow the repentant old man's example. Denial just perpetuates the pain and animosity. Nobody heals. I learned that Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, killed herself. WWII is still taking casualties.
Nanking was full of soldiers, these were not civilians, but oh well. We should believe what the CCCP propaganda says. and hide Tiannamen square massacre
K M you’re a born narcissist just like your Japanese country. Japan is peaceful?! Being peaceful doesn’t erase your horrific crimes. Accept, Admit and Apologize.
@@Japinoyboi2004 We are not responsible for the sins of our ancestors, but we are responsible for own. That's why I have faith that we can be friends, Kenji. You are clearly a thoughtful, empathetic young adult, someone I would be proud to call a friend, and you give me hope for an enlightened, peaceful, brotherly world.
I spent some time stationed in Japan while in the Marine Corps, and it is absolutely true that it seems the second world war did not happen, except for the firebombing of Tokyo, and two atomic bombs of course. I went through several museums that showed the "truth" of what happened during the war, and most of it was laughable.
Same here, Ron. The Hiroshima museum was a bit equal-sided in the 1980s, but now it is just pro Japan like "All these poor mothers and children were innocently eating their breakfast when BOOM!". Not acknowledging their past might lead them to commit similar things in the future.
The old Japanese man saying he would do it all again if he was younger and it was a interesting place while eating fancy meat made me so angry, the horrors that they did there was crimes against life, soul and god. The most foul things I ever heard of took place there. If anyone deserve to be punished after the war it was those monsters that worked at that place.
...... couldn't Agree more! - my neighbour years ago told me about the 'Logs of Wood' death camp. - Yea' the guy's eating fancy meat etc., 🤯🤯🤯 👍 Phil Liverpool UK 🇬🇧 ..... PS & that Chinese guy's leg!!! 🤯
Some people cannot face their consciences. Others don't have a conscience at all. I'd rather risk my life in combat. At least I could die with dignity.
The Japanese government need to admit to their past like Germany did, meanwhile the Chinese need to teach history in a way that doesn't discriminate the Japanese.
@@Banggeek LMFAO show actual proof of the Uyghurs genocide or STFU, and I am not talking about some fishy interview that "un-biased" medias such as CNN or BBC conducted.
I lived in Japan from 2005 to 2018. I found that most people do know about Unit 731. But these people I know are admittedly a self-selected group -- after all, most people who chose to learn English are generally more liberal and open minded people. My ex boyfriend, a Japanese guy, is the one who taught me about Unit 731.
It’s this part of Japanese culture, which I otherwise admire, that absolutely outrages me. If, in the coming years, a powerful China or Korea delivers to Japan a brutal military attack, it will be partly because of the Japanese failure to face up to what they did, admit it to themselves, and apologize. The Chinese and Koreans hold Japan in utter contempt for this willful, racist blindness.
Japanese media would've used that as propaganda against China if they did anything to the Japanese man. You also gotta remember that the people who directly experienced it in China are all elderly who can't fight well anymore. This is likely the only apology from a Japanese they'll hear in their lifetime. He was in no danger.
yes it did. But The thing is, its in the past now. The victims knew that, and obviously they know that attacking him isn't gonna change their situations.
@@dickiedollop I think at the end of the day, the best to take away from this is that 1. War is terrible, and 2. Noone was innocent. The US and allies are just as guilty for granting immunity to these criminals, and taking the data, and then committing atrocities against other nations themselves.
@@ciello___8307 War certainly is terrible. Politicial decisions are coldhearted too. However, the Japanese soldiers were truly something to fear. Raised to have no conscience, you'd often better be dead than captured by the Japanese, especially as a woman. No one was innocent but some armies definitely had a worse reputation than others.
This video is blowing my mind. For YEARS I thought 731 was a small, fringe group. Never went too deep on the subject. Imagine my shock after watching this. Absolutely speechless.
Respect those Japanese veterans who dare to stand out to apologize. They are the true ambassadors. I came across many Nanking residents who still forbids their children to married a Japanese until today.
Well, as you can see there are two coins of perception in terms of history: As the documentary said, if Germany were to deny the Holocaust, the international community would heavily criticize the German government so say the least. But with regard to unit 731 the international community says: What the hell is unit 731? Is Harbin a Chinese dish?
watching this after hearing someone from new zealand (of all places) saying that japanese war crimes like unit 731 and the nanking massacre never happened . we need to keep these stories alive, we cannot forget and let the people who dont believe in these events take control.
The Japanese government is terrible for not admitting their war crimes. The Japanese government and that professor feigning ignorance is what drives so much Japanese resentment throughout China and Asia even to this day. Just disgusting. Thank you Journeyman Pictures for bringing awareness to such an important topic.
when someone or a government starts calling humans by other names, "logs", "deplorables", they want you to forget they're people. This experiment shows that people won't give up their own life, to do what's right, and although they may feel grateful for that, sane people will spend a lifetime in repentance. What have we done? What is to come?
My Dad and most of his brothers fought the Japanese in ww2 so I grew up familiar with history. Dad had no animosity, not so the several Australian veterans of the Thai - Burma railway. I do not blame them,the atrocities the Japanese performed on the allies and local people were disgusting, to hear the stories 1st hand is unforgettable. I would like to see the 'honourable ' Japanese professor's reaction to those
Like what the US soldiers did to the Germans right after the war also unforgettable. As Germans at least we know what we did but what happened to the Germans right after the war nobody really wants to talk about in the "winner" countries. Also the USA was founded by by the blood of the natives and was always involved in a war
So this is one of those vids that makes me feel both the atomic bombs fat man and little boy were in fact more than justified to be dropped in Japan itself. Whatever you dish out, you just get it returned to you 10 fold.
The problem is hundreds of thousands of innocent people were killed, while the actual evil creeps went on to live out their lives. It was nessasary to end the war and spare millions of lives. China hasn't forgotten, they could take out Japan in a week.
@Tooth less unit 731 was literally experiments on civilians. Also don’t forget the rape of Nanking and all the atrocities committed against pow’s and civilians alike during the war.
My father in law fought in Burma on the Burma road, he never talked about it , always went to reunion parades ,was given a military funeral in the 70s. One evening he had a couple of whiskeys not many he was only about 5ft 3 told me they came across 2 Burmese girls strung up in a tree with there breasts cut off ,they found that Japanese officers tied them to there belts to be used as money bags. .
What a disgusting lack of respect for victims by the perpetrators shown, they display a complete lack of accountability, it seems like a bad dream. No growth or reflection after all these years. Truly chilling.
Since 1950, Chinese forces have massacred a total of 1.2 million Tibetans. Between 1966 and 1976, Chinese forces massacred more than 100,000 Mongolians and 200,000 Guangxi Zhuang. These are real, corroborated histories. The massacre of Uyghurs has been covered up and the number of victims is unknown. 😫😫😫😫😖😩😱😱😱
Ignorant clown, if your IQ can earn air ticket money, go take a plane to Xinjiang and see it before making a comment. It's a pity that your IQ can't earn you money for plane tickets. If you don’t have money to go to Xinjiang, please search for Xinjiang’s per capita income growth data and Xinjiang’s population growth data. Search for the number of churches in Xinjiang and compare these data with any country in the world. Ignorant and stupid guy, I guess your father is a Nazi, or you are a Japanese war criminal.
If Shinoske were a German admitting he had committed crimes under order, he would have been hounded to the grave (needless to say the allies gave themselves medals for doing the same things). Interesting how these people who have suffered *real* atrocities (not just inconvenienced or locked up for a couple of months) are able to forgive.
When Japan was allowed to keep their emperor that was the first mistake the allies made. When your country feels that it is ruled by a divine entity it allows that country to escape any sense of remorse.
Why? The U.S wouldn't benefit from killing the emperor apart from costing more lives and continuing a wasteful war. Instead they were able to control japan for 50 years and keeping a foothold in the pacific.
Isshi Shiro: Yes he's proud but not because of the Experiment of humans, Because Japan will suffer. Look at the facts with Anime and Hentia First Hentia "Rape of NANKING "with tags of Hentia Anime Nazi loli, The Catholic Destruction, The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing twice. Anime Fans make the Creators stuffer My hero academia Creators taught Wrong about my favorite Word I personally call Japanese MURUTAS no seriously I didn't care about my land no hero of Japan cared, the bombing of Hiroshima was to stop my unit after Germany our pawn failed the Japanese I also personally call then, pussy or hypocrites. " The more we Japanese deny our War Crimes, the more Suffer will be the Marks given" -Hideki Tojo And to this day continue So what do we give them a Bigger Tsunami Earthquakes Typhoons ects. It's the perfect punishment cause Money, bills, and so much.
@@hancyimnsnhoyo3553 Burn the monuments dedicated to this unit and teach the young about it then. If their is any one that was member of this unit sentence them to death.
@@hancyimnsnhoyo3553 Plz just look at the German government, they're educating their young generations about the Holocaust and they apologized to Jewish people, What is your government doing?
@@hancyimnsnhoyo3553 The current German government also hasn't done anything to Jews but they put their past in the history book, they apologised to Jews and their young ppl know about it. What about the Japanese government and people? I've seen a Japanese student saying something like "we shouldn't focus too much on the past, we need to move on", just imagine saying this to a Jew, do u think any educated ppl would say this to Jews?
This is literally the premise of my recommended list of things to watch after this video; ww1, ww2, damning Japanese secrets, damning American secrets, death, death, More death, How the female becomes pregnant, Tik tok compilation........ Thanks for the hard truth of the circle off life TH-cam...
My grandfather was a survivor of Japanese war camps, he had 1 lung removed without anesthetic, he had no toenails, & was scared all over with whip welts!!!!!!. 😤
Massacres committed by Japanese during their occuption of Taiwan (1895 to 1945). • Wushe Massacre (3 times). • Yilan County Massacre, approx. 5,000 killed • Linyuan Massacre in 1901 approx. 3,473 killed • Miaoli Massacre in 12/1913, approx. 1,200 killed • A village in Chiayi, approx 4,500 killed
wow you are talking about a massacre that happened 124 years ago. Lets just talk about the February 28 incident, a massacre created by Taiwan in 1947 with about 28,000 deaths. or Mao Zedong Famine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine that killed 60,000,000 CHINESE. they are not that old
@@kiyoshim9593 bitch if your gonna be a clown go somewhere else, this chemical shit is done on purpose. Go to your yard and kowtow to your tree for wasting its oxygen.
10:43 That scene is the most frightening to me. Imagine a german military parade with everyone dressed in black SS Uniforms, wearing swastikas and a guy carrying the Blutfahne. I also can't belive how Unit 731 is able to hold annual reunions. Like do you know why the Dirlewanger-Brigade can't do that? You're right, it's because they all got shot and hanged and that's what Unit 731 deserves.
I am an American. I think in my high school history class the immunity given to those war criminals was mentioned. That's a good start to educating students on what actually happened. Instead of having some crusade to prove your country is always the "good guys'
Very gruesome, but they didn't even touch at the most inhumane, gruesome cases that unit was responsible for. They were the absolute worst types of psychopaths.
Suddenly I don't feel so bad about that whole 2 bomb go BOOM thing! My Grandfather fought in the Pacific Campaign of WWII and he told me stories of Japanese soldiers that are more disturbing than most fiction concerning WWII could ever hope to be.
I understand your frustration, however it is innocent people murdered by both sides, 731 Japanese and USA with the disgraceful act of the Enola Gay. They are equally atrocious in their actions.
They cover up this shit all the time, why wasn't the fact that George Washington had bullet holes in his jacket & had two horses shot from under him, when he was a general. Nobody told me that in a history class, it was in my history book or lessons!!! No, no, no God forbide he had divine protection, we can't teach the truth!!!
Lotta respect for the guy who was enlisted as a kid not afraid to say it….kid who got dragged around. It happened a lot during that time. Real happy to see how the Chinese folks embraced him.
Has Britain, Spain , belgium, France apologized for their horrendous colonial deeds ? Has Australia apologized to the aboriginals ?? China and Korea would have done the same to any other country had they been an invading power.
And they bitch about Nagasaki and Hiroshima demanding for the US to apologize yet their atrocities are unspeakable. My problem with all these experiences is that the world never learn anything from her past.
Kind of ironic how apologizing is sort of an important part of Japanese culture, and yet the country itself has really not provided a satisfying apology, and won't even admit to all of its wrongdoings
13:31 I love how this guy knows its a problem and clearly indicates that claim is true we need more people to be REAL then a country will earn respect just like most people will like a real person in a group.
8:55 - 10:30 I simply cannot understand, how can a man with extensive knowledge of all that took place under the reign of these psychopaths masquerading as scientints, and brainwashed beasts masquerading as soldiers, stand beside a camera and a microphone, while this presented disgrace of a human being, in every possible way conceivable, eats his food growling that he would gladly do it all over again, and not attempt to end his filth from this plane of existence...It is just inconceivable for me...
9:07, I had to go back and read the substitutes again when I saw them say it was only criminals with a death sentences that was used. So the villages where they dumped plage flees in ceramic bombs were criminals, or how about the photo of a baby being cut open, was that child a criminal with a death sentence. I'm sorry but that guy is full of shit. At least the Germans recognised the wrongs it committed and faced up to them, which I respect them for doing so, but Japan have got a long way to go. They won't even admit such things as The rape of Nanking, the treatment of pow's, comfort women, and unit 741, you can't move on if you keep your head in the sand.
"The US did a dirty deal" I don't see why the US paid the Japanese for the data at all but out of remorse for the nukes or fear of soviet buying it first. You win the war, you get the spoils of victory. Maybe that's why, US and USSR were in league at that time against the Axis, both would've had a claim to the spoils if not for a private purchase. Who knows?
If a former Nazi soldier who admits to committing terrible war crimes was walking free without punishment and hosting reunions for such a unit that committed horrific attrocities, people would be outraged, but not for Japan...
The one guy who said that humans were treated like animals by Unit 731 was wrong...no one would treat animals to such a disgusting and disgraceful extent as what Unit 731 did to all those they conducted their vile experiments on...shame Japan, shame!!!!
I heard someone once say "Germany regrets starting the war. Japan regrets losing it."
not really
@Gagan They were arguably worse than the Nazis
so you don't think germany regrets only because they lost? oh you sweet summer child
@@TheRitva26 I think Germany is a much more liberal and shamed place than it certainly once was.
@@andrewkennemer1358 that's what they want you to think and when the time is right they will execute order 66
I once had a science teacher who had one third of his tongue sliced of by a Japanese Officer during his brutal imprisonment as an Australian soldier during WW2. He used to suffer terrible anxiety attacks and claustrophobia if he was too crowded by students, of course he had a shocking lisp but we understood him and as kids we understood and respected his trauma. There were many like him who were brilliant characters who carried the scars of brutal inhumanity deep psychologically, often there loathing and stoic unforgiveness in later generations was confused with racist attitudes etched deep within the Aussie psyche but it was far more complex then cultural identity, it was actual abhorrence of brutal inhumanity a soldier's lot during times of ill defined PTSD, there was no such thing as victimology they were simply casualties of war, you either lived or died. I recognised these traits even as a child as a Grandfather had never forgiven the Germans during WW1 for the use of mustard gas attacks, the Battle of the Somme. What they endured as soldiers was horrific and it remains the same today. There is only one conclusion all wars suck.
A very touching story, Ian. Thank you for sharing. Absolutely war is a horror and it must stop. I’m thankful beyond measurement for Trump. My brother has been on 6 tours in Afghanistan, and is finally returning home! Godspeed!
The US constructed a "replica Japanese village" in Montana in the 1940s. Same wood, same carpentry methods, roofing and so on. We optimized incendiary bombs then deployed them there for testing. Worked "great".
During the Tokyo firebombings we killed 100,000 civilians in one night. Deliberately put the bombs down where they would create firestorms. The winds were so strong that people were sucked into the fires. Time Magazine wrote, "Japanese cities, if properly kindled, burned like autumn leaves.
Two nuclear strikes, on civilians. There were big Navy bases waiting for us to come calling. The weapons could have been used on combatants, as is the custom of Just War.
I grew up around World War 2 vets in the US. They had a deep instinctive reaction to anyone from Asia. They especially hated Japanese. Hate as in they would have killed them on the spot if given even a small reason. For years Japanese who came to the US never quite knew what they were getting into when they came here.
There was a lot of hatred in the war, especially on a race basis.
Wars do suck. Race wars suck even more.
Most of my world war 2 vet friends were working people. They were an interesting bunch - hard nosed, rough, but kindly. They saw every little boy as a man who needed raised up right. They would hit me, and also encourage me. They would say, "You can do better!!".
They never talked about the war. They lived their lives as men, men who understood comradeship and who despised weakness. Cowardice offended them.
Worse? Quit. Go ahead and try it. Your ass got a boot. A "quitter" was offensive to them.
Ian Mac Dougall soldiers = sol-diers! = soul-diers.
@@jamallabarge2665 I'm a chicken coward, but also a girl, so it's ok then. The young though, they always feel invincible. War is rich old white men sending poor young men to die for profit and population control.
So a well respected professor denies that 731 ever existed? Even though they were treated with a memorial upon their return? How is he a professor?
They lied to save their Japanese culture and race and they are arrogant to this day to acknowlege their evil past, even in their country make it a taboo to even mention their emperor revered as god, howbeit I wld say worst than an evil witch doctor. And shld be burnt along with their 2.6 million soldiers for war crimes
I wish they interviewed the 731 psycho who's proud of it and that professor in the same room.
the same way so many professors who think communism is a good idea still have jobs
@@Tuvok_Shakur Thx man
@old school honour and respect. no, it's not. It's really similar actually.
My god, the lack of empathy and remorse of Toshimi Mizobuchi is stunning. Still after all these years calling human beings 'logs', and talking about asphyxiating them with methane as if it were matter of fact. None of those people were criminals, they were just innocent farmers and villagers. He even has the audacity to say he would do it again. Unbelievable cruelty. Toshimi Mizobuchi is obviously a true psychopath.
Toshimi Mizobuchi could be a moral coward, afraid of facing his horrible behavior.
But they were just Chinese
@@KokoTheGorilla69what's that supposed to mean?
Proud of my japanese allies
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@@KokoTheGorilla69Yes Chinese people are humans and deserve respect and to live free from pain and suffering what a terrible comment.
That unapologetic old man who runs goddamned reunion trips for 731 scares me more than any modern serial killer, any rapist, hell; most post-war Nazis I can think of. He still sees his victims as 'logs.' It's terrifying! These men are the equivalents of proud, free Eichmanns & Mengeles. That man destroyed records of a holocaust on film & felt nothing--and my country made sure he remains free. Imagine Mengele being in charge of Harvard; that's what the freedom of these monsters is. Only a forcibly enlisted child they call a traitor among them is capable of apology.
Proud of my japanese allies
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Proud of my japanese allies
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"They were criminals who had been sentenced to death. We were merely acting as the executioners." I just can't believe how ignorant that quote is. Why aren't the Japanese executing and experimenting on their own criminals then.
SuJoMon S A few individual members of the Japanese BW program conducted experiments on Japanese civilians years after WW2. One of them was a former member of Unit 1644 and his name was Masami Kitaoka. He deliberately infected people, including mental patients, with rickettsia and typhus. :(
@@Bj-yf3im Next experiments: Cancer, HIV, CRISPR-Cas9 gene alteration, artificial insemination with gene modified feti, these feti will develop dwarfism, progeria, Hallerman-Streiff, Goldenhar, or whatever syndrome.
Lame excuse for their evil deeds
@Lai Đại Hàn -ライダイハン Because the evil regime of US made a dirty deal with Japan in return for all their biological germ warfare by not prosecuting their unit 731 for all their wicked atrocities and crimes against chinese civilians using them as guinea pigs to experiment on bubonic plagues and diseases like cholera etc. A quarter million chinese were victimised and died.
I just find if f'd that basically every side in war targeted innocent civilians
This is what happens when you start seeing others as less than human beings. When you stop thinking about how this stranger had a mother and a father, brothers, sisters, children that loved him/her, how he/she had dreams and hopes, likes, dislikes, a view of the world. Instead you reduce them to "things" which you deem unworthy of your empathy.
they treated their dogs better than the humans that they brutally slaughtered. thousands of lives were inevitably affected by the cruelty of the japanese.
As bad as Japan was, look at what China's CCP is currently doing to their Muslim Uyghur population. It's a fullscale extermination program much like Hitler's infamous Final Solution to kill off the Jews. Same thing. Biden calls it "a cultural norm" as he tacitly approved of it. Where is the US outrage?
That's what evil does, it has no coinscience or guilt !!!
Juan, I respect other people's possessions more than these people cared about the lives of children. There is something invariably wrong with the way human beings are wired in order for this to keep happening, and war be used as an excuse for it.
@@MaPrincesse - The part with dreams ,likes, view of the world, etc., had nothing to do with family. Your too sensitive, possibly because you don't have a family (no uncles, aunts, cousins ?????? - they ARE family also.)
9:41 The rooms that we kept the logs in ...
And then he proceeds to describe how they gassed the "logs" to death.
I'm proud of what we did.
I would do it again, it was an interesting unit
This man is unbelievable.
unbelievably awesome
@@willemkloos1709 What exactly do you mean?
That this war criminal is an awesome person?
If he's not a natural born psychopath, this belief might be a way to deal with the trauma. It's called diminishing cognitive dissonance (or something); if he accepted that he committed atrocious acts, he might not be able to live with himself. Instead his brain chose to firmly believe in ready explanation given to the soldiers (that they're just executing criminals) to somehow deal with reality.
In the end, there is a difference between the first grandpa and this man. The first one was a simple soldier who followed horrendous orders, the other was in a position of responsibility and was GIVING those orders. If one can possibly forgive themselves and be forgiven for following orders, how could this man come to terms of his deeds? If he does have empathy, he would lose his mind. He cannot deny that he wasn't there, but he can deny that it wasn't bad. After all, they all got rewarded for it after the war...
@@Upioornica It's a good explanation,
but I don't think that this man really felt any trauma.
Just by referring to them as the "logs",
You can understand that he feels that he's superior,
and justified to do whatever he wants to these "logs".
L KS they would have until one or two were dropped on Tokyo, which the US was willing to do. Nuclear destruction is more powerful than any ideology.
While japanese schools don't even teach a little of what they actually did in the war
they actually faught a bunch of battles and it is not as cool as super old history
And the Chinese are no better, they deny what they've done to HK and Muslims just the same. In the end the CCP and Japanese government are one in the same
@@a79919 china and japan go along well with eachother :D
@@a79919 like America is any better hypercrite
@@RC-hs7oo America is way better! Even with our so called atrocities we treat people better. America ROX!!
"the Japanese race has never done bad things" That is the stupidest thing I've heard in a while.
라면충 no
Agree..
Wtf. This man is like a scholar? That's the best you got?
Every race has done bad things.
"the Japanese race has never done bad things" that’s a not fact.
As a Japanese student, it is absolutely sickening to see this. I can confirm that the Japanese textbooks barely mentions about these brutal experiments and massacres that have occurred throughout histories. Even my history teacher would teach that is was for the “better good.” I was baffled when I only saw two sentences, yes TWO SENTENCES, about the Nanking massacre where there should be a whole Unit about it. And in addition to that, I never knew about Unit731 until recently because they never taught us about it in school. Japan needs to start acknowledging their past and stop avoiding it.
Hear, hear!
Don't feel too stressed, pretty much all countries, peoples, groups have committed horrible things to fellow humans. There will always be tribal minded people defending their own groups actions whilst playing up the crimes of another.
The Japanese government would lose nothing to admit the truths of what happened and to acknowledge the pain caused. But China is certainly using the issue as propaganda for their own interests.
It's just sad as humans we can't just move forward together understanding we are all capable of evil and to commit to easing tensions and hostility in hopes to not have such things happen again. Unfortunately I don't think we are anywhere near that point
And kids, that's why everything in Japan is fake, from history to even the Japanese themselves.
The USA is just as guilty.
Meanwhile Chinese and Korean textbook mention it and emphasize it all the time 🫣
can you imagine if the germans dressed up in ww2 uniforms and marched around saying they did nothing wrong?
They still do. Now they're called Trump supporters
@@Avi-tc2ym ok bud go sleep with sleepy joe biden
@Rifle Eyez Point out the lie
@@ilovebirds3157 Fuck Joe. Trump was still far worse tho
@Rifle Eyez and?
I understand that the other members of the unit HAVE to believe that the victims were criminals, and they were simply the executioners. But something about a man showing no remorse or trauma for vivisecting another human is just utterly disgusting and baffling. "If i was younger, I'd consider doing it again" a monster is made slowly over time, but this guy is truly a monster.
Just an excuse
He said working in that unit was "interesting." There are some people who would like to show him how interesting they found it.
And apparently there are holocaust deniers in the west and also war crime deniers in the east. And people in power everywhere who are willing to advance their power on the backs of their own people.
To this day, Japan still never formally apologize. Honorable nation my ass.
@@thetkida is there? He said they were human guinea pigs not enemies.
remember when the USA bombed us for no reason, kill over 100,000? so we arent the worst either.
Well the winners does write the rules. Every nation involved in WW2 did something cruel.
@@thetkida What a great episode 👏
@@navnarva1948 remember when Japan bombed America first for no reason? I do
It's about time that the ever so innocent Japanese military have some light shed on what they did during WW II. Our POW's were starved, tortured and murdered in their death camps.
Lets go back in time 80 years ago show them.
Shoulda dropped more than 2 nukes.
They got 2 nukes and firebombing. I think they learned their lesson
Definitely. But an important principal of western/Biblical law is that children not be punished for the sins of their fathers. But reminded of their fathers sins, 100% agree. Also remember that Japan is now one of our (America's) best allies.
@@themontgomeryc Let's be realistic, how many of the individuals were physically affected by the nukes and fire bombing.
Part of being a great nation is to acknowledge your past. This aspect of history needs to be taught in Japan's schools.
that's why japan will never be a great nation.
As well as in American history textbooks, Canadian history textbooks, and other parts of the world's history textbooks.
And every next generation should all be responsible for what they did in WW2.
Japanese teachers do teach these atrocities. The filming direction has deviated.
@@s71402san Huh? Next generation didn’t do anything in WW2
I love the empathy and understanding the woman who leads the Chinese villagers affected by the Japanese’s biological warfare and experiments for the Japanese man who apologized and understands that all he knew was what he was told to do, deeply unsettled by it and with deep regret. He took accountability and they accepted him and treated him with respect and understanding.
I have to say I was deeply moved by that one Japanese man’s apology to the village. There are still people holding positions of power within Japan who are directly connected to these atrocities. The Japanese government can help those affected far more than one person ever could, yet they’re all perfectly happy to pretend this never happened.
But then there’s this guy- he flew himself out there to stand, alone, in front of hundreds of people whose lives he had a hand in destroying to tell them: "I am responsible for what happened to you". There’s nothing he can offer to help them or to right what he’s done, but he still went.
After watching this video and seeing how few have stood forward, I realized that hearing this man’s words is what these people needed more than anything else.
(It's seriously annoying how they recognized the importance of this man's apology, yet didn't bother to fully translate it. The commentary that played over was good but come on, guys!)
THIS!
I think in the end his fate should belong to those of the town he terrorized. I get the position he was put in, yet at the same time I personally could never forgive this and would probably attempt to kill him on sight if he had taken part in the things he did. Keep in mind these were THE worst atrocities committed by mankind taking place in this lab. Dissecting people alive, hanging people upside down until death, injecting people with piss and other bodily fluids then starving them until they rotted to death, testing flame throwers & radiation poisoning on random people, giving out poisoned candy to local village children just to watch them die and many more atrocities are amongst the things they did. There is no apology that works for that, and sometimes people simply have to be eradicated for the things they have done.
Who gets to point the finger? Senegal still pays colonial tax. America infected its population with siphilus. China oversaw the starvation of 100 million people. Who has clean hands?
If Japan weren't aggressors, then Pearl Habour was a very strange hand shake...
no, Japan was trying to liberate the natives of Hawaii from American imperialist oppressors. it was a noble attempt
ewtubewatcher lol so they using that excuse to justifying their invasion... who would belive that...
Jake, you need one more history lesson that I recently learned. Our government wanted war with Japan and wanted them to strike first to give us an excuse; Roosevelt was the POTUS that was in charge of this and it worked. They knew through intelligence that Japan was coming in and didn't stop them. Google it.
ewtubewatcher dafuq
i was being sarcastic...
Japan, just tell the truth like Germany did. German are well respected today by everyone because they're are afraid to teach history and that is how one learn from the mistakes and gain it's respect. Japan on the other hand is not even teaching world war 2 in high school? This just tells me they're afraid of their own past.
aren't** I meant to say Germans learn from their past where as Japanese people denied their history altogether.
Oh boy, you are a brainwashed little one
They already apoligized dummy!
@@Japinoyboi2004 It's not just about the apology. It's about teaching the truth. Apologies are not sincere when you try to hide the truth or ignore details. Some Japanese people have the audacity to deny the facts. Japan should realize that just because their ancestors committed these crimes it doesn't mean the youth today are guilty. It doesn't mean you can't be proud of your culture. You can be proud, but
they need to be taught the truth. Not to feel guilty, but to contemplate the genuine atrocities of war.
Could have saved some time and typed out "derp" would have been the same thing.
People who don't know the mistakes of the past will repeat them. People can see the early warning signs and if they're not too much of a pussy take care of the problem
Imagine how shocking the first time you got punched was. Now imagine the levels of trauma of experiencing human pain. Being cut open. Being purposefuly experimented with poisons. Shot, stabbed with bayonets, lit on fire. Shot in the back of the thigh, and the adrenaline kicks out. Being hit with heavy bullets from machine guns and still being alive. Even if you die instantly you still experience that insane pain.
Japan is insanely sensitive to “losing face”, as they call it. What others think is one of the most important things. That’s why they won’t admit their war crimes, I think. If you’re Japanese or have lived there, then you know exactly what I mean. I lived there for many years and believe me, Japan “did bad things” on a daily basis. Just because you dont acknowledge it, doesn’t make it not true
Hopefully young Japanese will learn what really happened and follow the repentant old man's example. Denial just perpetuates the pain and animosity. Nobody heals. I learned that Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, killed herself. WWII is still taking casualties.
Nanking was full of soldiers, these were not civilians, but oh well. We should believe what the CCCP propaganda says. and hide Tiannamen square massacre
K M you’re a born narcissist just like your Japanese country. Japan is peaceful?! Being peaceful doesn’t erase your horrific crimes. Accept, Admit and Apologize.
I already know these. I am 16 yrs old japanese and I am disgusted of these demons
@@Japinoyboi2004 We are not responsible for the sins of our ancestors, but we are responsible for own. That's why I have faith that we can be friends, Kenji. You are clearly a thoughtful, empathetic young adult, someone I would be proud to call a friend, and you give me hope for an enlightened, peaceful, brotherly world.
@@MrGeno1951 What the hell man. 16 isn't an adult yet. But yeah, US and Japan has been a great allies now.
It makes me sick that the man that justifies his slaughter is roaming free, and even has the audacity to organize reunions of celebration
Believe it or no their research could have helped humamity
@@15junio97 and would u agree to be one of those cases cut open, to help humanity?
@@15junio97 No it didn't.
@@_blank-_as awful as it sounds, it really did. Without these experiments we wouldn't even have modern medicine
wow he is proud ? comeon lets dissect him
Stfu
@@jackmarentette1302 no
Obi Wan Kenobi yeah
@@jackmarentette1302 fu Jack
Now was unit 731 really that bad
I spent some time stationed in Japan while in the Marine Corps, and it is absolutely true that it seems the second world war did not happen, except for the firebombing of Tokyo, and two atomic bombs of course. I went through several museums that showed the "truth" of what happened during the war, and most of it was laughable.
Same here, Ron. The Hiroshima museum was a bit equal-sided in the 1980s, but now it is just pro Japan like "All these poor mothers and children were innocently eating their breakfast when BOOM!". Not acknowledging their past might lead them to commit similar things in the future.
The old Japanese man saying he would do it all again if he was younger and it was a interesting place while eating fancy meat made me so angry, the horrors that they did there was crimes against life, soul and god. The most foul things I ever heard of took place there. If anyone deserve to be punished after the war it was those monsters that worked at that place.
...... couldn't Agree more! - my neighbour years ago told me about
the 'Logs of Wood' death camp.
- Yea' the guy's eating fancy meat etc., 🤯🤯🤯 👍
Phil Liverpool UK 🇬🇧
..... PS & that Chinese guy's leg!!! 🤯
Some people cannot face their consciences. Others don't have a conscience at all.
I'd rather risk my life in combat. At least I could die with dignity.
So I’m Japanese and I just learned about all this a couple days ago. Schools in America should teach how bad this actually was.
No schools in America should teach about all of their own crimes in detail first
What the heck is with the guy saying he is “proud” of the experiments and casually talking about how he killed people. Just an insane lack of empathy.
maybe he should be experimented on
The Japanese government need to admit to their past like Germany did, meanwhile the Chinese need to teach history in a way that doesn't discriminate the Japanese.
as a chinese i agree. I hope warcrimes arent covered up but i do hope chinese government do not censor parts of history or news
tiananmen square 1989
@Sum Ting Wong 深丁黃 and the Genocide of Uyghurs 🙂
Where u from? Taiwan
@@Banggeek LMFAO show actual proof of the Uyghurs genocide or STFU, and I am not talking about some fishy interview that "un-biased" medias such as CNN or BBC conducted.
@@mastertrollmind Very true!
I lived in Japan from 2005 to 2018. I found that most people do know about Unit 731. But these people I know are admittedly a self-selected group -- after all, most people who chose to learn English are generally more liberal and open minded people.
My ex boyfriend, a Japanese guy, is the one who taught me about Unit 731.
Pinoy ka?
@@projectcerebus wtf
@@user-ri6jn9zv7r pinoy ka?
@@lemonstrangler NOOOOoo yes im mixed
Originally published *May 2003*. Just in case anyone was confused.
It’s this part of Japanese culture, which I otherwise admire, that absolutely outrages me. If, in the coming years, a powerful China or Korea delivers to Japan a brutal military attack, it will be partly because of the Japanese failure to face up to what they did, admit it to themselves, and apologize. The Chinese and Koreans hold Japan in utter contempt for this willful, racist blindness.
Too many commas shows a pretenctious idiot
@@alexradice8163 Not being able to spell also shows idiocy.
@@alexradice8163 commas is necessary for sentences
@@mufassapengidaphiv210 so are periods
@@alexradice8163 *.
Took a lot of courage to go back to the Chinese village and apologise he was lucky they didn’t take the law into their own hands 😐
Japanese media would've used that as propaganda against China if they did anything to the Japanese man. You also gotta remember that the people who directly experienced it in China are all elderly who can't fight well anymore. This is likely the only apology from a Japanese they'll hear in their lifetime. He was in no danger.
yes it did. But The thing is, its in the past now. The victims knew that, and obviously they know that attacking him isn't gonna change their situations.
@@ciello___8307 it’s a pity more folk were as philosophical in their life outlook, the world would be better for it 👍🏻
@@dickiedollop I think at the end of the day, the best to take away from this is that 1. War is terrible, and 2. Noone was innocent. The US and allies are just as guilty for granting immunity to these criminals, and taking the data, and then committing atrocities against other nations themselves.
@@ciello___8307 War certainly is terrible. Politicial decisions are coldhearted too.
However, the Japanese soldiers were truly something to fear. Raised to have no conscience, you'd often better be dead than captured by the Japanese, especially as a woman.
No one was innocent but some armies definitely had a worse reputation than others.
This video is blowing my mind. For YEARS I thought 731 was a small, fringe group. Never went too deep on the subject.
Imagine my shock after watching this. Absolutely speechless.
Shiro ishii was about to engineer a bio attack on California
It's amazing to me that these villagers are able to praise and commemorate one of the soldiers that committed these atrocities
Respect those Japanese veterans who dare to stand out to apologize. They are the true ambassadors.
I came across many Nanking residents who still forbids their children to married a Japanese until today.
Unit731 was run by Nobusuki who is grandfather to current Prime minister of Japan Abe Shinzo.
That tells you what kind of country Japan is.
cody choi they literally call him the monster of showa, don’t think it reflects the people under his rule
Well, as you can see there are two coins of perception in terms of history: As the documentary said, if Germany were to deny the Holocaust, the international community would heavily criticize the German government so say the least. But with regard to unit 731 the international community says: What the hell is unit 731? Is Harbin a Chinese dish?
"The Knights of Bushido" is a book that should be more widely read.
Just looked it up. I’ll have to read it.
Ram ranch is a good song
I'll have to check it out thanks
@Demboys Wizala I am glad I am not the only one also. Many thanks !
@Xadion Thanks I will look it up !
That man needs compensation from Japan! His legs are so bad that’s so sad
Yeah bro that was hard to see and I seen some fucked up stuff man…
watching this after hearing someone from new zealand (of all places) saying that japanese war crimes like unit 731 and the nanking massacre never happened . we need to keep these stories alive, we cannot forget and let the people who dont believe in these events take control.
The Japanese government is terrible for not admitting their war crimes. The Japanese government and that professor feigning ignorance is what drives so much Japanese resentment throughout China and Asia even to this day. Just disgusting.
Thank you Journeyman Pictures for bringing awareness to such an important topic.
I just want to say thank you, for the video.
10:28
What a despicable pile of flesh, loose skin and bones.
He wouldn’t stop smacking his mouth either
@sushanalone @@august2235 You both took the words right outta my mouth! What a vile disgusting creature!
@@MayimHastings he should be forced to give those people who had family members killed by him and his unit an apology
Dude that’s sick
Agreed
when someone or a government starts calling humans by other names, "logs", "deplorables", they want you to forget they're people. This experiment shows that people won't give up their own life, to do what's right, and although they may feel grateful for that, sane people will spend a lifetime in repentance. What have we done? What is to come?
My Dad and most of his brothers fought the Japanese in ww2 so I grew up familiar with history. Dad had no animosity, not so the several Australian veterans of the Thai - Burma railway. I do not blame them,the atrocities the Japanese performed on the allies and local people were disgusting, to hear the stories 1st hand is unforgettable. I would like to see the 'honourable ' Japanese professor's reaction to those
Like what the US soldiers did to the Germans right after the war also unforgettable. As Germans at least we know what we did but what happened to the Germans right after the war nobody really wants to talk about in the "winner" countries. Also the USA was founded by by the blood of the natives and was always involved in a war
@@Cuteemogirl94 Nerthus doesn't understand history, but wants others to think he/she does.
OK. Now go learn the truth of history.
Tyrants judging tyrants for different type of tyranny.
CCP
So this is one of those vids that makes me feel both the atomic bombs fat man and little boy were in fact more than justified to be dropped in Japan itself. Whatever you dish out, you just get it returned to you 10 fold.
Well said!!!
The problem is hundreds of thousands of innocent people were killed, while the actual evil creeps went on to live out their lives. It was nessasary to end the war and spare millions of lives. China hasn't forgotten, they could take out Japan in a week.
@Tooth less unit 731 was literally experiments on civilians. Also don’t forget the rape of Nanking and all the atrocities committed against pow’s and civilians alike during the war.
Lets bomb the shit out of America, Russia and germany and kill many innocent for the warcrimes of a few right?
Except, the Japanese war crimes killed ten fold more civilians in Asia than the atomic bombs killed Japanese civilians
To be proud of one's work and then to destroy the evidence.
My father in law fought in Burma on the Burma road, he never talked about it , always went to reunion parades ,was given a military funeral in the 70s. One evening he had a couple of whiskeys not many he was only about 5ft 3 told me they came across 2 Burmese girls strung up in a tree with there breasts cut off ,they found that Japanese officers tied them to there belts to be used as money bags. .
That AH who said if he was younger, he'd do it again...I can't believe somebody hasn't sent him to hell yet!!!
Not a SINGLE Japanese were even questioned regarding this....
They were, the USA traded the results of these experiments in exchange for their freedom and most involved weren't part of the Tokyo trials.
Lol
@@blackpilllegion7243 lol white “person”
@@frankgonzalezofficial3010 yup, we are just as sick, if not sicker. Then again, we do have mexican cartels.
Also not a single soviet was questioned for war crimes,
What a disgusting lack of respect for victims by the perpetrators shown, they display a complete lack of accountability, it seems like a bad dream. No growth or reflection after all these years. Truly chilling.
I didn't know students toured that museum. Good for them teaching history truthfully.
I hope to be able to visit that museum someday
@@neelie4356 Me too.
Since 1950, Chinese forces have massacred a total of 1.2 million Tibetans. Between 1966 and 1976, Chinese forces massacred more than 100,000 Mongolians and 200,000 Guangxi Zhuang. These are real, corroborated histories. The massacre of Uyghurs has been covered up and the number of victims is unknown. 😫😫😫😫😖😩😱😱😱
Ignorant clown, if your IQ can earn air ticket money, go take a plane to Xinjiang and see it before making a comment. It's a pity that your IQ can't earn you money for plane tickets. If you don’t have money to go to Xinjiang, please search for Xinjiang’s per capita income growth data and Xinjiang’s population growth data. Search for the number of churches in Xinjiang and compare these data with any country in the world. Ignorant and stupid guy, I guess your father is a Nazi, or you are a Japanese war criminal.
If Shinoske were a German admitting he had committed crimes under order, he would have been hounded to the grave (needless to say the allies gave themselves medals for doing the same things). Interesting how these people who have suffered *real* atrocities (not just inconvenienced or locked up for a couple of months) are able to forgive.
This wasn’t for a couple of months, this went on for years. This is just one of the phases that the Japanese committed.
When Japan was allowed to keep their emperor that was the first mistake the allies made. When your country feels that it is ruled by a divine entity it allows that country to escape any sense of remorse.
Why?
The U.S wouldn't benefit from killing the emperor apart from costing more lives and continuing a wasteful war.
Instead they were able to control japan for 50 years and keeping a foothold in the pacific.
"if i was younger id do it again" even says it with a smile, chilling
The 731 unit members that spoke openly about their crimes are honest man.
10:23 wht the f**k he said he would do it again.
says it with so much pride on his face. sick fuck
Hahaha 😂😂😂
Why did he do that
Isshi Shiro: Yes he's proud but not because of the Experiment of humans,
Because Japan will suffer.
Look at the facts with Anime and Hentia
First Hentia "Rape of NANKING "with tags of Hentia
Anime Nazi loli, The Catholic Destruction,
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing twice.
Anime Fans make the Creators stuffer
My hero academia Creators taught Wrong about my favorite Word I personally call Japanese
MURUTAS
no seriously I didn't care about my land no hero of Japan cared, the bombing of Hiroshima was to stop my unit after Germany our pawn failed the Japanese I also personally call then, pussy or hypocrites.
" The more we Japanese deny our War Crimes, the more Suffer will be the Marks given"
-Hideki Tojo
And to this day continue
So what do we give them a Bigger Tsunami Earthquakes Typhoons ects.
It's the perfect punishment cause Money, bills, and so much.
The Japanese government should have paid to fix that old man's legs instead of just issuing a worthless apology
That guy apologizing is acting on his own. The government didn’t even send him.
@@hancyimnsnhoyo3553 Burn the monuments dedicated to this unit and teach the young about it then. If their is any one that was member of this unit sentence them to death.
@@hancyimnsnhoyo3553 obama didn't cut people open while alive
@@hancyimnsnhoyo3553 Plz just look at the German government, they're educating their young generations about the Holocaust and they apologized to Jewish people, What is your government doing?
@@hancyimnsnhoyo3553 The current German government also hasn't done anything to Jews but they put their past in the history book, they apologised to Jews and their young ppl know about it. What about the Japanese government and people? I've seen a Japanese student saying something like "we shouldn't focus too much on the past, we need to move on", just imagine saying this to a Jew, do u think any educated ppl would say this to Jews?
This is literally the premise of my recommended list of things to watch after this video;
ww1,
ww2,
damning Japanese secrets,
damning American secrets,
death,
death,
More death,
How the female becomes pregnant,
Tik tok compilation........
Thanks for the hard truth of the circle off life TH-cam...
My grandfather was a survivor of Japanese war camps, he had 1 lung removed without anesthetic, he had no toenails, & was scared all over with whip welts!!!!!!. 😤
Massacres committed by Japanese during their occuption of Taiwan (1895 to 1945).
• Wushe Massacre (3 times).
• Yilan County Massacre, approx. 5,000 killed
• Linyuan Massacre in 1901 approx. 3,473 killed
• Miaoli Massacre in 12/1913, approx. 1,200 killed
• A village in Chiayi, approx 4,500 killed
wow you are talking about a massacre that happened 124 years ago. Lets just talk about the February 28 incident, a massacre created by Taiwan in 1947 with about 28,000 deaths. or Mao Zedong Famine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine that killed 60,000,000 CHINESE. they are not that old
@@kiyoshim9593 bitch if your gonna be a clown go somewhere else, this chemical shit is done on purpose. Go to your yard and kowtow to your tree for wasting its oxygen.
@@hiimryan2388 hahaha. im having fun with you.
K M let me guess, you actually aren't having fun and are just an asshole?
K M listen mate we are talking about JAPANS war crimes, please get out and maybe rot in hell
Unit 731 is the single most appalling thing I’ve ever known about from all of human history. It’s atrocious in every sense. And no-one knows about it.
Check out Josef Mengele, nothing shocks me after reading about him.
@@taraleighcUK unit 731 was mengele on industrial scale
@@bisiilki
I have just finished reading the book about unit 731 and totally agree with you
This old man out here just casually admitting war crimes.
they never treated them like animals, they treated them like logs.
10:43 That scene is the most frightening to me. Imagine a german military parade with everyone dressed in black SS Uniforms, wearing swastikas and a guy carrying the Blutfahne. I also can't belive how Unit 731 is able to hold annual reunions. Like do you know why the Dirlewanger-Brigade can't do that? You're right, it's because they all got shot and hanged and that's what Unit 731 deserves.
I am an American. I think in my high school history class the immunity given to those war criminals was mentioned. That's a good start to educating students on what actually happened. Instead of having some crusade to prove your country is always the "good guys'
Those members who regret nothing, should be shown justice
Very gruesome, but they didn't even touch at the most inhumane, gruesome cases that unit was responsible for. They were the absolute worst types of psychopaths.
very disgusting indeed, it was pretty much hell on earth
How do we find the full info
Suddenly I don't feel so bad about that whole 2 bomb go BOOM thing! My Grandfather fought in the Pacific Campaign of WWII and he told me stories of Japanese soldiers that are more disturbing than most fiction concerning WWII could ever hope to be.
But i don't think that the people who just lived like normal people should have been killed it was not their fault .
You don't understand don't you
I understand your frustration, however it is innocent people murdered by both sides, 731 Japanese and USA with the disgraceful act of the Enola Gay. They are equally atrocious in their actions.
Except that the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't the culprits. The soldiers should have been the one being judged and sentenced to death.
@@_blank-_ what of the victims of 731?
Most of them were innocent too, what do you have to say about that?
Why has this never been portrayed in any history books?
It depends upon your history books, I’m not sure if it was primary or high school but I was definitely taught about this in Australia
because it was swept under the rug and it makes the allies look bad as well since they took the data and didn't punish the unit
It is , for IB. (But then it's a privileged thingy)
They cover up this shit all the time, why wasn't the fact that George Washington had bullet holes in his jacket & had two horses shot from under him, when he was a general. Nobody told me that in a history class, it was in my history book or lessons!!! No, no, no God forbide he had divine protection, we can't teach the truth!!!
meant it wasn't in my history book or lessons
Lotta respect for the guy who was enlisted as a kid not afraid to say it….kid who got dragged around. It happened a lot during that time. Real happy to see how the Chinese folks embraced him.
Has Britain, Spain , belgium, France apologized for their horrendous colonial deeds ?
Has Australia apologized to the aboriginals ??
China and Korea would have done the same to any other country had they been an invading power.
That's humans
well did you see ZhengHe colonize the Africa when he arrived there in the 15 century ? no, he didn't.
Solkels _Z China is doing it now. Late bloomers
sc1338 ha ha ha
sc1338 ha ha ha your brain is the hight of comedy
There is no word to describe how horrible these demonic humans have done to other fellow human beings.
thats the word i was thinking. truly demonic
5:30 god the poor man with those sores on his legs! To think he has survived all this time with those sores and that pain...
Cramps and diarrhoea yeah i experienced that from food poisoning,very painful way to die.took me 6 months to recover.i feel that granpa
10:29 He said he'd do it again?
He's dead now and hopefully in the 7th circle of hell... he shouldn't have ever been allowed back into society
And they bitch about Nagasaki and Hiroshima demanding for the US to apologize yet their atrocities are unspeakable. My problem with all these experiences is that the world never learn anything from her past.
When they say they didn't want to use pain killers because it might affect the germs it is at best a flimsy excuse for deliberate sadism.
11:58 the camera man almost gets stabbed
Japan did nothing wrong .
Nanjing is hoax
The old man said
Lmaoo
This documentary should be mandatory viewing for all young adults. My heart is breaking ...
QUESTION AUTHORITY!
Kind of ironic how apologizing is sort of an important part of Japanese culture, and yet the country itself has really not provided a satisfying apology, and won't even admit to all of its wrongdoings
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
Just shocking.
13:31 I love how this guy knows its a problem and clearly indicates that claim is true we need more people to be REAL then a country will earn respect just like most people will like a real person in a group.
8:55 - 10:30 I simply cannot understand, how can a man with extensive knowledge of all that took place under the reign of these psychopaths masquerading as scientints, and brainwashed beasts masquerading as soldiers, stand beside a camera and a microphone, while this presented disgrace of a human being, in every possible way conceivable, eats his food growling that he would gladly do it all over again, and not attempt to end his filth from this plane of existence...It is just inconceivable for me...
That unapologetic 2nd unit dude is a scary old man
US paid to obtain the ENTIRE research they did, and covered it up mostly :)
9:07, I had to go back and read the substitutes again when I saw them say it was only criminals with a death sentences that was used. So the villages where they dumped plage flees in ceramic bombs were criminals, or how about the photo of a baby being cut open, was that child a criminal with a death sentence. I'm sorry but that guy is full of shit. At least the Germans recognised the wrongs it committed and faced up to them, which I respect them for doing so, but Japan have got a long way to go. They won't even admit such things as The rape of Nanking, the treatment of pow's, comfort women, and unit 741, you can't move on if you keep your head in the sand.
it suprises me how so much of this stays untold and unknown for so much of the world
It's crazy the Chinese never expected to be hated by the Japanese so much. Despite having tried to invade them for like 300 years lol.
"The US did a dirty deal"
I don't see why the US paid the Japanese for the data at all but out of remorse for the nukes or fear of soviet buying it first. You win the war, you get the spoils of victory. Maybe that's why, US and USSR were in league at that time against the Axis, both would've had a claim to the spoils if not for a private purchase. Who knows?
Wow, how truly demonic to do such things to another human being !
If a former Nazi soldier who admits to committing terrible war crimes was walking free without punishment and hosting reunions for such a unit that committed horrific attrocities, people would be outraged, but not for Japan...
What about an Imperialist (US) solider admitting to war crimes?
@@landrat5217 Anyone who commit's war crimes should be held accountable.
The one guy who said that humans were treated like animals by Unit 731 was wrong...no one would treat animals to such a disgusting and disgraceful extent as what Unit 731 did to all those they conducted their vile experiments on...shame Japan, shame!!!!
"Special Effects" by Christopher Finch described how 1935 to 1945 militaries had been number one purchaser of image optical printers.