Unit 731 - Japans Secret Human Experiments

Formed in response to western powers developing their own chemical and biological weapons and being aware of the success of Chlorine Gas used in World War One, Shiro Ishii lobbied his superiors for his own research centre. Shiro Ishii was a specialist microbiologist and served the Imperial Japanese Army from 1921 up until 1945. There is no doubt he was a gifted individual, who developed an incredibly effective water purification filter. However, his true interest and drive was the creation of biological and bacteriological weapons for the Imperial Japanese Army. To create and understand the effect of biological and chemical weapons, as well as conventional weapons To understand the various injuries an Imperial Japanese Soldier could expect to suffer and how best to treat said injury