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Fascism 🤮 / fascism, Japan 😍😍 (thelemmy.club)

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[-] Imnecomrade@hexbear.net 16 points 11 hours ago

I remember listening about Unit 731 (CW: Some of the most graphic, gruesome, torturous experiments in history, NSFL)

It was so hard to listen to. Every time I hear Japan threaten to recolonize China, it makes my blood boil to no end.

[-] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 16 points 10 hours ago

Yeah I've heard of that too. Hard to put into words the levels of evil.

I feel the same about Japan. China got bullied right from the first point of contact with Europeans right through to the end of WW2. They even have the term "century of humiliation" to describe the worst period of it. But nobody is able to bully them anymore, and that has been the case ever since the founding of the PRC in 1949.

The Chinese people can now defend themselves from imperialist aggression, and Japan would do well not to try anything, because they no longer have a controlling stake in China's future.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 15 points 10 hours ago

An estimated 14,000 people were killed inside the facility itself. In addition, biological weapons developed by Unit 731 caused the deaths of at least 200,000 people in Chinese cities and villages, through deliberate contamination of water supplies, food, and agricultural land.

After the war, twelve Unit 731 members were tried by the USSR in the 1949 Khabarovsk war crimes trials and sentenced to prison. However, many key figures, including Ishii, were granted immunity by the United States in exchange for their research data.

what-the-hell

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 9 hours ago

Ishii's research data and if I recall correctly his own personal consultation was used by the US in their germ warfare against Korea as well. This is one of those things I looked super deep into in high school and it is fucking twisted awful shit.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago

Ishii's research data

Like "experiments" done during the Holocaust, the data ended up being worthless because it was just an excuse to torture people. Yeah, no shit, people experience pain when you freeze their limbs and shatter them. The experiments were poorly conducted, such as no control groups or methodology with missing steps.

About the only useful thing was the effects of chemical and biological weapons. And again, it was mostly useless because it was like "Yeah, people die if they're exposed to weaponized anthrax."

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Distribution methods were the main intel. Dropping aide covered in infected fleas etc. It was less about that diseases kill people but how yo introduce it to people efficiently. The rest was useless cruelty. Some was useful at creating more widespread cruelty later.

Edit: i'm saving this for noise lyrics

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

For a social studies class in high school we got paired up to do group assignments where we had to do a PowerPoint about a country and talk about 3 different things. We got Japan and went with Unit 731, Yukio Mishima and Aum Shinrikyo. We had decided ahead of time, no matter the country we'd find the darkest shit we could. Japan was like...the best random pick we could have gotten. I think all the countries in the hat were western allies