Seeking Justice for Biological Warfare Victims of Unit 731: Evidence Collected by Wang Xuan

Seeking Justice for Biological Warfare Victims of Unit 731

Evidence Collected by Wang Xuan

Unit 731 was established in Harbin during the Sino-Japanese War as a covert biological warfare research & development section of the Imperial Japanese Army. Besides using human experimentation, doctors and scientists developed lethal biological weapons as an efficient way to win the war against the world.

In about a decade of existence, those at Unit 731 produced a massive amount of germs, enough to kill the world three times over. Germ weapons such as anthrax, glanders, and the bubonic plague were, in fact, deployed in China during the war. In the Chongshan Village of Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, an epidemic was caused by the IJA's biological weapons, and many innocent civilians perished. Survivors of the incident ended up with rotten legs and, to this day, are unable to live normal lives due to the attack.

Wang Xuan has been uncovering the truth and fighting for justice for these victims of biological weapons during World War II. This book provides primary documents from the Rockefeller Institute, CIA, and other government agencies, obtained through the National Archive and Records Administration.

"One of the largest war crimes in history is also one of the least known. This book tells the hidden story of the Japanese Army's biological warfare in China during WWII through the voices of the victims. A remarkable read for those who want to know the truth."

-James Bradley,
New York Times Bestselling Author of Flags of Our Father, Flyboys, The Imperial Cruise, and The China Mirage

Ishii's Network, a covert biological and chemical warfare research & development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, had been experimenting with biological weapons in Zhejiang province, China since 1940.

*The covert biological and chemical warfare research development unit was also known as Unit 731. However, Ishii's Network was far bigger, encompassing at least 26 branches of biological weapons laboratory across Asia during WW2.

The Sino-Japanese War had been ongoing since 1937. Japan had occupied parts of China, but not Zhejiang.

Thus, the United States saw this as an opportunity to use Zhejiang as an airbase to launch raids in Tokyo.

The U.S.'s Doolittle Raid in Tokyo saw a drop in the morale of Japan.

However, it also resulted the IJA's vengeful Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign in 1942, as Zhejiang housed the airfields which had made it possible for U.S.'s air raids on Japanese soil.

Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign 1942

Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway was viewed as an important supply line. Using biological weapons was deemed to be the most cost-effective way to launch the attack. The operation was also known as Operation Sei-go.

Not only was plague used, but salmonella typhi, rickettsiae, shigella, vibrio cholerae, salmonella enterica, bacillus anthracis, and glanders germs were also unleashed on the city during this horrific episode of biological warfare.

"I was

16 years

old...

I felt as if

I was

dying."

Survivor: Fang Jiao-Xian, b. 1924

"The day before the invasion of the Japanese, my family and I hid in the nearby mountain. I was 16 years old. Some young girls that were still in the village were raped to death by Japanese. The Japanese retreated in August of 1942 when I was 18 years old. At the time, I was a young girl filled with hope for my future. However, blisters started showing up on my right leg, and it was ulcerated several days later. Several holes appeared in my leg, and the black flesh kept falling. It was very painful. My leg attracted many flies with a bad smell. I had to bind my leg very tightly with a cloth to try to look neat. I didn't dare to roll my trouser leg up even on a very hot day. My mother was infected by the ulcerative skin lesion as well, but it was on her hand. Her thumb and forefinger were disjointed about ten days later. I used to be a lively girl, and I have become very reticent since then. There was no more happiness in my life. I had tried to commit suicide twice. But I was rescued by kind-hearted people every time. My mother passed away before she was 50. There were a dozen villagers also infected by ulceration on legs at the time in my late thirties.

The bones inside the leg fell apart one piece after another. when I was 57 years old. I was very dizzy all the time and very thin, weighing only 25 kilos. Being dizzy all day, I felt as if I was dying. My family brought me to the hospital and saw[ed] my right leg to keep my life. "

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"Wang Xuan deserves a special paragraph. Wang is one of contemporary China's greatest patriots. She has dedicated her life to seeking justice for those Chinese who were victimized by Japanese BW and CW experiments. Someone called her 'The Joan of Arc of China,' and the comment is not an overstatement."

-Dr Sheldon H. Harris, historian & author of Factories of Death