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Introduction
Japan began to explore research on both biological and chemical weapons in the late 1920s. Even before he became emperor, Hirohito showed an interest in this line of research. In 1925, during his regency, Hirohito had a biological laboratory constructed within the Akasaka Palace, and in 1928, during the second…
1954: The Doolittle Report, heightened fear and prospect of annihilation by Soviet Union
The Doolittle Report was alarmist and heightened fear of the prospect of annihilation by the Soviet Union; it justified the suspension of longstanding American concepts of “fair play” and lent legitimacy to the Covert Activities of the CIA: We are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed object is world domination…
2004: U.S. Army “Taguba Report” & Red Cross Report Abu Ghraib “tantamount to torture”
Two months before the Abu Ghraib photographs exploded on the internet, the U.S. Military Police Brigade conducted an Article 15-6 Investigation of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. An internal 53-page Army report by Major General Antonio Taguba documented numerous instances of “sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses” at Abu Ghraib….
1966: Policies for the Protection of Human Subjects
1966: NIH Office for Protection of Research Subjects (OPRR) created Policies for the Protection of Human Subjects calling for the establishment of independent review bodies later known as Institutional Review Boards.
1950: Two-hundred female prisoners infected with viral hepatitis
1950: Dr. Joseph Stokes of the University of Pennsylvania deliberately infected 200 women prisoners with viral hepatitis. (Acres of Skin, 1998)
1995: “Unmasking Horror — A special report; Japan Confronting Gruesome War Atrocity”
These two sentences encapsulate Japanese culture during the Emperor Hirohito era. A culture that glorified Japan’s racial superiority, sought to exercise its power, encouraging merciless brutality toward its subjugated enemies whom the Japanese regarded as sub-human. A culture that unleashed unrestrained violent savagery, mass rape, indulged an appetite for unimaginable torture,…