Harris, Sheldon. "Factories of Death" (PDF). p.28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-08-08 . Retrieved 2019-05-31. The Soviet Union was the only government to bring anyone associated with Unit 731 to trial. In late December 1949, in Khabarovsk, Russia, 12 former physicians, officers, and staff were accused of manufacturing biological and chemical weapons. While there was some coverage in the American press, the United States government, keen on protecting its secret deal, labeled the proceedings just another Soviet show trial. Kristoff, Nicholas D. (March 17, 1995). "Unmasking Horror -- A special report.; Japan Confronting Gruesome War Atrocity". The New York Times . Retrieved August 6, 2015. After World WarII, the Office of Special Investigations created a watchlist of suspected Axis collaborators and persecutors who are banned from entering the United States. While they have added over 60,000names to the watchlist, they have only been able to identify under 100 Japanese participants. In a 1998 correspondence letter between the DOJ and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Eli Rosenbaum, director of OSI, stated that this was due to two factors: a b Ye, Josh (February 4, 2020). "Hit manga My Hero Academia removed in China over war crimes reference". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020 . Retrieved November 11, 2020.

Two Versions of Hell (2007), produced by James T. Hong; documentary about Unit731 told from the Chinese and Japanese sides [140] Ruling recognizes Unit 731 used germ warfare in China". The Japan Times. 2002-08-28 . Retrieved 2023-01-03. Unit members orchestrated forced sex acts between infected and non-infected prisoners to transmit the disease, as the testimony of a prison guard on the subject of devising a method for transmission of syphilis between patients shows:

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Division1: research on bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax, typhoid, and tuberculosis using live human subjects; for this purpose, a prison was constructed to contain around three to four hundred people Occupied City (2010), a novel by British author David Peace who lives in Japan, presents a mystery about a murder on 26 January 1948 in Tokyo. A murderer poisons bank employees by pretending to be a government official administering a dysentery vaccine. Gradually, through the testimonies of various people connected to the tragedy, it becomes clear that the poisoner has a shared history with Unit 731. RARE) Yoshimura Hisato (excerpt of a telephone interview conducted by Mainichi Shimbun)". Vimeo. Archived from the original on 2021-10-07 . Retrieved 2021-10-07. Japan’s Kempeitai, the military police arm of the IJA from 1881 to 1945, was tasked with these kidnappings. The Kempeitai was less a conventional military police body than a secret police force akin to the Gestapo. Headed in Manchuria by Hideki Tojo, from 1935 to 1937, the Kempeitai’s cruelty was notorious in occupied territories. (See WWII Quarterly, Fall 2011). After the war, the U.S. Army estimated it numbered 36,000 regular members. The English Führer by Rory Clements – Historia Magazine". www.historiamag.com . Retrieved 2023-02-05.

Biohazard: Unit 731 and the American Cover-Up" (PDF). p.5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-31 . Retrieved 2019-05-31. Unit 731: One of the Most Terrifying Secrets of the 20th Century". Archived from the original on March 8, 2017 . Retrieved November 8, 2015. Cook, Haruko Taya; Cook, Theodore F. (1992). Japan at war: an oral history (1sted.). New York: New Press. p.162. ISBN 1565840143.Some of the tests have been described as "psychopathically sadistic, with no conceivable military application." For example, one experiment documented the time it took for three-day-old babies to freeze to death. [60] [61] LaFleur, William; Böhme, Gernot; Shimazono, Susumu (2007). Dark medicine: rationalizing unethical medical research. US: Indiana University Press. a b Barenblatt, Daniel. A Plague Upon Humanity: the Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operation, HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 0060186259. Harris, Sheldon. "Factories of Death" (PDF). p.77. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-08-08 . Retrieved 2019-05-31.