On May 6, 1994, the Senate Committee on Veterans held a hearing titled: “Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health? Lessons from World War II, the Persian Gulf and Today.” Rudolph R. Mills had been in a gas chamber experiment when he was 18 years old. He testified: “I had…
In 2009, Gordon Erspamer, a San Francisco lawyer filed suit against the CIA and the US Army on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of America and six former American soldiers who claim they are survivors of classified government tests conducted at the Army’s Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland between 1950 and…
The Veterans Affairs website demonstrates that the agency is a source for disinformation about unethical medical experiments conducted on military personnel. It states: From 1955 to 1975, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps conducted classified medical studies at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. The purpose was to evaluate the impact of low-dose chemical…
In 2012, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in California ruled that a class action lawsuit on behalf of 100,000 veterans, who were used as guinea pigs to test hundreds of drugs, can proceed. The suit seeks to lift the oath of secrecy soldiers say they swore about what they went…
NPR’s six month investigation shows the continued utter disregard the Veterans Affairs Department has for it suffering veterans who had been abused as human guinea pigs in mustard gas experiments. NPR created the first publicly searchable database including 3,900 names Charlie Cavell was 19 when he volunteered for the program…
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…
An estimated 20 million people died and millions more were subjugated and oppressed during Japan’s half-century of war and colonial expansion, which ended in 1945. Throughout its military campaign the Japanese army carried out an infamous “Three All” extermination policy “loot all, kill all, burn all.” The policy led to…
1936–1945: Unit 731 — the Asian Auschwitz — was a massive biological warfare research program of the Japanese Imperial Army under the command of Lt. General Dr. Ishii Shiro in Pin Fang, Manchuria outside the city of Harbin. Its true purpose was masked as the Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory. Unit…
Unit 731 conducted “Field Tests” using planes in the experimental use of massive biological weapons on Chinese cities that induced epidemics of plague, cholera, and typhoid on a large scale, infecting an estimated 200,000 Chinese, Korean, Mongolians, and Allied civilians. In 1942, Japan carried out massive biological weapons attacks dropping…
During WWII, Japanese and Nazi doctors committed heinous experimental medical atrocities. Yet, those performed by the Nazi doctors were deemed “crimes against humanity,” whereas those performed by Japanese doctors were disregarded despite the many similarities. The doctors in both countries who carried out diabolical experiments regarded their victims as sub-human,…
1942—1944: Americans began to capture numerous Japanese military orders, diaries, and field notebooks that contained evidence of Japanese atrocities. The task was carried out by the US Army’s Allied Translator & Interpreter Section (ATIS), the largest translation and interrogation operation in the Pacific which was established by Gen. MacArthur in…
After World War II, Japan’s history was fabricated into a glorified myth woven by hawkish right-wing nationalist Japanese historians, and assisted by General Douglas McArthur, who shielded the emperor and the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Japan’s fabricated mythological history was imbeded in government censored textbooks. The Japanese government steadfastly…
