Japan began to explore research on both biological and chemical weapons in the late 1920s. Even before

An estimated 20 million people died and millions more were subjugated and oppressed during Japan’s half-century of

1936–1945: Unit 731 — the Asian Auschwitz — was a massive biological warfare research program of the

Unit 731 conducted “Field Tests” using planes in the experimental use of massive biological weapons on Chinese

During WWII, Japanese and Nazi doctors committed heinous experimental medical atrocities. Yet, those performed by the Nazi

1942—1944: Americans began to capture numerous Japanese military orders, diaries, and field notebooks that contained evidence of

After World War II, Japan’s history was fabricated into a glorified myth woven by hawkish right-wing nationalist

Textbook Censorship Challenged The Japanese government repeatedly required history textbook authors to make changes on sensitive issues

The hidden record of Japanese medical atrocities came to light in Japan through lawsuits filed by Chinese

In April 1992, a two-part documentary about Japanese biological weapons mastermind Ishii Shiro was based upon newly

In 1995, The San Jose Mercury News obtained a 137-page  declassified U.S. military counterintelligence file that provides detailed evidence

These two sentences encapsulate Japanese culture during the Emperor Hirohito era. A culture that glorified Japan’s racial superiority,

In 1997, Iris Chang’s book, The Rape of Nanking: the Forgotten Holocaust, broke a six-decade-long international silence about the

In 1997, one hundred and eighty Chinese survivors and families of the victims sued the Japanese government charging