Chinese media representatives swarmed around a small-statured man as he apologized before a memorial monument on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Harbin last August.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese Unit 731 staff carrying a body from one of the unit's facilities. Archaeologists in China have uncovered a secret ...

The horrors of Nazi medical experiments during World War II are widely known, but Japan's Unit 731 in occupied China remains a lesser-explored chapter of wartime atrocities, according to researchers ...

TOKYO - Japan is starting to excavate the site of a former medical school that may reveal grisly secrets from World War II.

People visit the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, ...

Unit 731 was part of Imperial Japan’s biological-warfare program and carried out lethal experimentation on prisoners during the Second World War. The program investigated infectious diseases, ...

Archaeologists in northeast China have unearthed a World War II "horror bunker," reports LiveScience. Researchers at the Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology say the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy “The Devil’s Gluttony” exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World ...

It's a scene from a nightmare. Captured prisoners are purposely infected with deadly diseases, from plague to cholera and tuberculosis, exposed to freezing temperatures, given poisoned food, dissected ...

Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army secretly developed and tested bacteriological weapons on human subjects in Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese War. At the end of the war, evidence was destroyed, ...

TOKYO — Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy “The Devil’s Gluttony” exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World War ...