Unit 731 Essays

  • Unit 731 and The Horrific Japanese Experiments

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    bio warfare research unit was established by the Imperial Japanese Army. This special unit worked in a facility that was passed off to the public as a water purification and epidemic prevention facility and was kept secret by some of the most powerful Japanese officials of the time. After World War II the unit was shut down and the members of the unit were released without punishment in exchange for the data of their experiments. Although some of the data provided by unit 731 was useful, the experiments

  • Unit 731: The Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of Kwantany Army in Japan

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    the date of which marks the beginning of Unit 731, a shorten name for Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung army. Unit 731 was part of a Japanese biological and chemical warfare research department with the goal of developing biological and chemical weapons for use by the Japanese Kwantung army. It was given the nickname Asian Auschwitz for its cruel human experimentations that they have conducted toward their prisoners. Unit 731 did not spare anyone from its experiments

  • Essay On Unit 731

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    cringe. The reason why I am saying this is because, Japan’s “Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department” (a.k.a Unit 731), was an excuse for human experimentation and torture. Even more sickening than this, is the fact that United States granted amnesty to all those involved in these unexcusable acts against humanity, in return for information on their research. Unit 731 was commanded by General Shiro Ishii of the Kwantung Army (a branch of the Japanese Imperial Army, that

  • Essay On Unit 731

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    Unit 731 The phrase,”Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it” is quite ironic. It is usually misquoted and misattributed to Winston Churchill. In reality, this quote reads,”Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”And is quoted from George Santayana, a poet. This shows us how fragmented our views on history can be. We always talk about the Holocaust but everyone seems to have forgotten about the atrocious acts of the Japanese unit 731, essentially the Japanese

  • The Asian Auschwitz

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    Department Unit, or better known as Unit 731, and the atrocities committed by the “Asian Auschwitz”. So what happened to the leaders and men of Unit 731? If they surrendered to the Americans after World War II, then they were granted immunity and allowed to live their lives free without any worry of prosecution for their crimes on humanity. So the question is, was it correct of the United States to grant immunity to human experimenters of Unit 731 and cover-up all knowledge of Unit 731’s existence

  • Unit 731: Horrible Experiments

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    people whether guilty or innocent. For Japan their dark and twisted time was during WWII. The Unit 731 operation was a dark act that happened during a dark time in Japanese history in which they conducted cruel experiments testing human limits. Most of us know of the horrible experiments that the Nazis performed on the Jews during the holocaust. However, very few of us know about the experiments that Unit 731, a Japanese

  • White Supremacy Unit 731

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    White Supremacy Comparing White Supremacy to Nazism and to Unit 731 are similar in many ways. There main goal is making their country pure of single race. These groups look at their other people like there are nothing or not even humans. White Supremacists have the mindsets like the Nazis and Unit 731 because White Supremacists America to be authentic of the white race; just like the Nazis wanted to rid of the Jews. In the recent events of Charlotteville, White Supremacists said; According to

  • The Second Sino-Japanese War

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    Unit 731 and the American Cover-Up The Second Sino-Japanese war began on July 7th, 1937 and ended on September 9th, 1945. It was a military conflict which was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. As part of the struggle against fascism, Japan invaded China. It is clear that, due to the restriction of its natural resources, Japan tried to increase by robbing resources from other countries. Japan used the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops. Manchuria

  • The War Crimes that Went Unpunished

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    weapons program. The unit formed in Manchuria would later be compared to Nazi Germany death camps and to this day the war crimes have gone unpunished (Williams & Wallace, 1989). The Japanese first entered continental Asia in 1895 with the annexation of Korea, then moved into southern Manchuria following the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 (Williams & Wallace, 1989). Japan finished their takeover of Manchuria with the Manchurian Incident of 1931 (Japan invades Manchuria, n.d.). Unit 731 was started in Harbin

  • The Sino-Japanese War: Chemical Usage at the Attack of Yichang

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    What type of agent that was used if any? Employment methods used to disperse the chemical agent in wartime. Finally, I examined situations in which the agent would be employed by military forces to gain maximum effectiveness. A brief description of Unit 731, its commander, and a bit about what the kinds has been explained. Next key point is a brief summary of the actual war previous to the incident usage, and the attack itself. The war is followed by research on the chemical actually used during the

  • biological warfare

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    and we start showing signs. One of the first well known u... ... middle of paper ... ... are able to better predict what we need to do to keep our beautiful country safe. With our new counteractive technologies, trained personnel, specialized units for response and launch pads to destroy bombs before they hit our land I feel safe, but there is always the unknown and the possibilities of what could be invented next. So we have to pay attention and be one step ahead of terrorists, criminals and

  • Prisoners of War During WWII

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    countries got together to sign and agree on these new set of rules (“Life” 11). The signing of the Geneva Convention was held in Geneva, Switzerland. This document of ninety-seven articles defined a prisoner of war as a member of a regular military unit, wearing a uniform (thus spies were excluded). The Convention decl... ... middle of paper ... ... Red Cross and learning the facts about the brutality, General Eisenhower stopped sending POWs to the French. (Tarczal) Works Cited Bowman

  • Bioweapons

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    Imagine a terrorist without any guns or bombs. Would he or she be considered a real terrorist? The answer is yes; anyone who threatens or endangers the lives of others are terrorists, even those who utilize bacteria and viruses rather than other usual weapons. When people use biological weapons as terrorism, that act is called a bioterrorism. Unfortunately, this actions have been repeated throughout the history, as well as in modern days. They can in fact be far more dangerous than actual weapons

  • Bioterrorism Essay

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    A hidden threat against the USA is becoming more and more potentially catastrophic; bioterrorism is now almost unstoppable. With new technologies such as genetic engineering, pathology, and high tech electronics, an attack of bioterrorism could have a record breaking number of fatalities. The truth of the matter is that this is real and very dangerous. There are secret bioweapon research facilities all across the world being hidden right under our noses. The threat of bioterrorism against the USA

  • Technical Escort: Revealed

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    Escort Unit, there has always been one mission that has never changed; the removal, transportation and disposal of chemical weapons. “The U.S. Army Technical Escort Unit was formed in 1944 and is the longest, continuously active, military chemical unit in existence... The unit was formed as a group of specialist to escort chemical weapons”(Cashman, 2000, p. 104). Although this mission type has not faded, the overall mission of these units has expanded to a larger arena. The Technical Escort Unit (TEU)

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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    down in a body tube that surrounds them. For many years, closed MRI units have been the standard in helping physicians make a diagnosis. These closed MRI units featured a long tube that the patient would be placed inside during their procedure. This was often uncomfortable for many patients due to the "closed in" feeling and was especially stressful for patients who suffer from claustrophobia. The newest generation of MRI units is now open on all four sides which completely alleviates the "closed

  • The Structure of Wholeness

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    category the structure turns out to be a model on its own. The self-application leads on the level of the axioms to the boolean lattice of all substructures and on the level of the terms of axioms to semantical boolean lattices, which may seen as basic units for the whole language. Thus the understanding of the structure of ‘wholeness’ takes for granted that there is a pre-understanding of the very same. Furthermore, there is another kind of circular understanding on the level of the atoms of the structure

  • Hypertext and Spatial-Temporal Dimensions

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    his search; there is no correct path, rather all paths are relative to each individual user to what his preferences are. The electronic reader is encouraged to think of the text as a collection of interrelated units floating in a space of at least two dimensions. Her movement among units does not require flipping pages or consulting the table of contents; instead, she passes instantly and effortlessly from one place to another (Bolter 175.) With hypertext, as opposed to traditional methods of

  • durkheim division of laber

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    referred to a bonding of individuals based on common beliefs and values, which more tied by a kinship aspect. “Mechanical Solidarity is based upon a strong collective conscience regulating the thought and actions of individuals located with structural units that are all alike” (Turner). Individuals are bind together where they share a similar customs and morality. As a result of this type of social link, it is difficult to distinguish the individual’s values versus society’s value. Because people live

  • Differences in Absentees in the Workplace between Smokers and Non-smokers

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    The unit of observations were random samples of twenty-five various employees divided into two distinct, independent populations, smokers and non-smokers. Then data on their absences from work for the previous year were obtained and used in this statistical inference. Because of a strong association between smoking and ill-health, it is generally accepted that smokers miss more work than their non-smoking counterparts. Does the smoker miss more work than the non-smoker? Data from these random samples