A chunk of the archives Japanese historian Seiya Matsuno discovered on the National Archives of Japan. /Xinhua
A Chinese museum and a Japanese historian collectively launched archives exhibiting the elements and employees checklist of Unit 731 – a Japanese organic and chemical warfare unit throughout World War II – to the general public in Harbin City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on Friday.
The archives have been discovered by Japanese historian Seiya Matsuno within the National Archives of Japan lately. Matsuno, who can also be a Distinguished Professor of Heilongjiang International University, took the photocopy of the employees checklist to China.
This is the primary time that the details about the employees checklist and all of the departments of Unit 731 has been confirmed from Japanese official archives, stated Matsuno.
Matsuno stated it is essential to launch the employees checklist in Harbin City, the place Unit 731 was based mostly, including that he hopes to cooperate with Chinese consultants to analysis the archives and let extra individuals know Unit 731’s crimes.
A chunk of the archives Japanese historian Seiya Matsuno discovered on the National Archives of Japan. /Xinhua
Jin Chengmin, curator of the Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by the Japanese Army Unit 731 in Harbin, famous the employees checklist confirmed that medical scientists and engineers have been main forces of the unit in 1940.
“This is an extremely important archival data for the study of chemical and bacterial warfare launched by Japan during World War II, and it’s also hard evidence of crimes committed by the Japanese Kwantung Army during its aggression in China,” Jin stated.
At least 3,000 individuals have been used for human experiments by Unit 731, and greater than 300,000 individuals in China have been killed by Japan’s organic weapons.
The new archives will probably be on show on the Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by the Japanese Army Unit 731 and Heilongjiang International University within the close to future, Jin stated, including that the museum will cooperate with Japanese consultants to do additional analysis in regards to the archives.
(With enter from Xinhua)
Source: CGTN