The downfall of the Japanese WW2 Era

Japan’s surrender and signed the peace agreement.

August 15, 1945 marks the day when the Pacific side of WWII ended when Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender and signed the peace agreement. This also meant an end to the ambitious projects of the Japanese biological warfare scientists that previously had the ability to perform a multitude of experiments on humans since the 1930s. However, and as shown in the post-war actions, the BW war criminals of the Japanese WWII era were allowed to walk free from their history, and most continued to work in medical positions. All of this was permitted by the United States, who took sole control once they occupied Japan in September 1945. A pattern of silence, secrecy, and deceit was about to take place, one that would determine the far-reaching cultural and economic evolution of post-war Japanese society.
Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri as
​ General Richard K. Sutherland watches, September 2, 1945

Retreat, demolish, hide

In the summer of 1945, the United States was in the process of identifying the counter responses of the Japanese once the war would come to an end (on the U.S. victorious position), and planning the post-war climate of Japan in terms of societal settings, politics, and culture. Building of a new, democratic Japanese society would have to be carried out by the U.S. with respect toward and protection of the Japanese, requiring subtle treatment of the war criminals. Knowledge of the war gained from various sources, such as the Japanese POWs, presupposed the Japanese resistance would be passionate and brutal after surrender,
leading to a chaotic takeover and a difficult arrival for the Americans. The formal but private signing of peaceful surrender could reduce outbursts of fighting across the wide area, and such took place on
September 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay. Nevertheless, before MacArthur and his commanding crew arrived in Japan on August 30th, the biggest storm of chaos had passed. This time (two weeks after the initial surrender), was greatly taken advantage of by the war criminals in terms of hiding evidence, destroying facilities and executing any witnesses—something that the U.S. did not appear to consider in their programs on after-war planning.
Emperor Hirohito's radio broadcast announcing Japan's surrender in World War II, outside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, on Aug. 15, 1945.
Once the news broke of Japan’s surrender, the Japanese personnel who very much contributed to the biological warfare program began to organize their escape from accountability. The first step was to destroy the large-scale experimental factories, commanded by superiors of Ishii Shiro, the main developer and controller of the Japanese BW activity.

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 Unit 731 Cover-up :
​The Operation Paperclip of the East 

During the occupation of Japan after WWII, the US had an important decision to make. Should they hold those responsible for atrocities during the war accountable or should they take the information to advance national interest?

The researchers who worked at Unit 731, the biological and chemical warfare research and development unit, were given immunity in exchange for their research data. Unit 731 included factories filled with humans, tested with various diseases, as well as field tests on civilians of the Soviet Union and China. Imperial Japan had aspirations to develop operative tools of biological warfare, one that was prohibited after World War I. Using alive human captives, the Japanese scientists of the medical profession gathered data on the progression of the diseases until the "human guinea pigs" collapsed. Most of these scientists lived peacefully after WWII, with a few of them having to go through the Khabarovsk Trial, which was deemed by the West as communist propaganda.

Most of the horrors on Unit 731 had been hearsays and rumors until recently with the passing of the Freedom of Information Act. This book is based on documents found in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Russian archival documents, and translations of the Khabarovsk Trial to paint a complete picture of the cover-up of the atrocious act of Unit 731. Readers could expect to questions themselves with this evidence: Should war crimes be covered up in the name of national interest?