Or maybe its that the allies were the monsters who genocided millions of innocent people in WW2 for money, hiding behind phrases like "democracy" and "freedom"
And Mark Twain was correct in that statement I have seen the gaping maw of the insanity of humanity. Of how evil Humanity truly is. Of how I would identify with my fur babies more than most people
There’s a shamefully vast gulf between what Japan did and the extent to which Japan has, til this day, accepted what it did. Polar opposite to Germany.
@@Aritri91 Exaggeration is also not good but at least good in a way to make sure it won't be repeated. Far better than hiding it or outright denying it
It's always funny to bring this stuff up to someone from it japan and see if they know about it, didn't know about it and are now horrified by it, or are ultranationist and reject it as "Western propaganda"
It appears this story will still be little know in the west. Apparently youtube has blocked it here in the US. Just a blank screen appears. I guess someone in the US is still alive and wants to hide this story. Censorship
My Chinese grandmother was a survivor of WW2 in Asia, and for years I couldn't understand why she had an undying hatred of all things Japan but she refused to talk about it. It was after I learnt about Unit 731 that I began to understand. Thank you for doing this video.
My wife's grandfather in Malaysia was disappeared by the occupying Japanese for the crime of being able to speak English. Her father and his brothers had an intense dislike of the Japanese to their dying days.
I was trying to sell a car to a Korean dude and I asked him if he played Super Smash Bros and he said “I want nothing to do with Japan” and I quickly changed topic
There are many things to admire about Japanese culture but their unwillingness to acknowledge these crimes is something of a stain. That stain spread to any Allied power that protected them for their data.
Its tied up to the asian concept of "face".... It's why the red chinese lie about everything they possibly can, to "gain face". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_%28sociological_concept%29?wprov=sfla1
The US shares some of the blame, for granting amnesty to the Japanese military in charge of 731. At the end of the war with Japan, we immediately used their research/personnel to develop bio weapons for use against North Korea. Camp Commander Ishi ended up as dean of Japan’s most prestigious medical school, and died in bed at an old age.
@@bebo4374”Look at us today and it’s the same crap” dude your complete lack of context and perspective is repulsive and you should think more before speaking.
I actually asked once a Japanese man why they wouldn't acknowledge these crimes. He said that it was due to the deeply rooted sense of respect towards their ancestors and the elderly that prevented the Japanese from ever doubting or criticizing their actions.
Very glad you're bringing attention to this topic. I don't think many people are aware that it wasn't just the Nazis who committed unspeakable acts during WWII.
You are correct. The Japanese were far worse than the Germans They were on par with the Soviets. The Americans were not innocent nor were the rest of the allies either. They all committed war crimes & horrible atrocities! So when I hear people bring up the Germans & act like they are the only ones I get angry!
You must be joking?..... If people are aware of the Nazis' war crimes they generally are very much aware the Japanese had done the same things to Indo China. What most people are not aware of is the Soviet War Crimes....
I learned of this unit while reading a book about the _Kempeitai_ nearly 15 years ago. Thank you for publishing an episode about this horror. It is doubly necessary because 1) the post-war Japanese governments have successfully portrayed the Japanese Empire, and its people, as "victims" during WWII, and 2) the Asian version of Operation Paperclip by the USA. I did not know that General MacArthur was responsible for granting immunity from prosecution to Ishii and his senior staff. I wonder who in Washington D.C. signed off on these actions.
@@user-vr6gl2lc8n Yeah and that's not even the tip of the iceberg. The allies committed the largest mass vrape in modern history in Berlin. Females aged 6-60 were done in broad daylight by the Soviet barbarians. Under Eisenhower 1,000,000 German POW's were intentionally starved after the war had ended in efforts of "de-nazifying". Even though most of those men were Wehrmacht and not political soldiers. The British caused the worst famine in Bengal history leading to the vanishment of 4,000,000 people as they stole food from the locals in an effort to stop the advancing Japanese. The Japanese would eventually push the British back, so another war crime done without purpose(like nagasaki and hiroshima) Relentless bombings of civilian, non-military, and non-industrial centers happened by the allies. The allies repeatedly sank merchant ships carrying food and supplies MEANT for allied POW's in Japan, essentially starving their own people. The Japanese soldiers often did not have enough food or supplies for themselves. Yet no accountability from us. We demand accountability and endless apologies from Japan and Germany without acknowledging our own faults. On top of that we claim the moral high ground in atrocities such as the atomic bombs when even US generals & admirals of the time called it unnecessary & barbaric (Nimitz, MacArthur, Leahy, Eisenhower, etc) Look it up.
In Japan today, when you visit their museums pertaining to history, the way they describe and present themselves is that they were just going about their business in peace and prosperity when all of sudden, out of nowhere, two atomic bombs are dropped on their country without warning…they essentially take ZERO responsibility for their horrific actions, plural, prior to WWII, during WWII, and the last few days of the war…they never admit guilt, apologize, or ask for forgiveness to the Allied forces. They did not adhere to the Geneva Convention guidelines regarding war As far as I’m concerned, they can piss off until they categorically admit their fault for their actions, and beg forgiveness from those that they wronged
Look up Tongzhou Massacre, Harold John Timperley, Central Propaganda Bureau. Harold Timperley is a western spy funded by the Chinese government. Nanjing was fabricated fiction to hide their worst war crime, TONGZHOU (=TSUSHU) MASSACRE from the international audience. They committed many massacres against Japanese women and civilians. Stop neglecting the true war crimes and do your own research. If you're an adult, please know that this world is filled with propaganda and fabricated stories of the victory countries of WWII. The truth and facts especially inconvenient to the war winners were all removed and hidden from the media. Know the worst war crimes against civilians of the country which lost the war. TO JUSTIFY THEIR OWN WORST WAR CRIMES THEY COMMITTED, THEY HAD TO CREATE FICTIONAL STORIES TO DEMONIZE JAPAN. And the misinformation was escalated year after year after Japan lost WWII. They wanted you to believe that Japan was a demon, which is 100% false. Japan protected Chinese civilians in Nanjing from their own brutal criminal-like soldiers' brutal and selfish crimes. Japan made the city safer than before by protecting civilians from cholera an pestis. LOOK UP NEW YORK TIMES MARCH 26 1933 TITLE "TUNGLIAO SURVIVES A YEAR OF TERROR; Bandits, Bombing Raids, Chol- era and Floods Ravaged This Part of Manchuria. JAPANESE FOUGHT DISEASE Troops Cleaned Up the City and Forced Citizens to Submit to Inoculations. COMMUNITY NOW QUIET Catholic Mission Head Declares It Is Safer Today Than Under the Old Regime." 731 WAS NOT FOR A MASSACRE BUT FOR EPIDEMIC / DISEASE PRECENTION UNIT TO PROTECT CITIZENS. KNOW THAT THIS WORLD IS FULL OF WINNERS' PROPAGANDA AND MISINFORMATION!!! Just because Japan lost a war doesn't mean they were a demon, but the war winners always want you to believe that Japan is a bad guy, which is really racism and wrong. They try so hard to justify atomic bombs which are the worst war crimes and human experiments ever performed on human beings, and the other massacres and genocides the U.S., China and Russia committed against Japanese civilians need to be justified at all cost. This is why they try so hard to fabricate fictional stories, tell lies, mislead and brainwash people for 80 years. Please do not neglect Tongzhou Massacre, Masan Massacre, Kakkonbyo Genocide and Sado Reclamation Group Remains Genocide. If Timperley did not create the Nanjing fiction, why did they ALWAYS misrepresent the pictures of Japanese victims as Chinese and lie in the books, videos and media? Why do they not have real evidence? Because the Nanjing and 731 are scapegoats of the Tongzhou Massacre and other war crimes which they don't want you to know!
On August 6, 1945, the intense heat rays and blast wave caused by the US military's atomic bombing instantly burned and blown away 160,000 Japanese people in Hiroshima. Words cannot describe the horrific sight of hell.
I visited Unit 731 in 2011. It was a deeply emotional & moving experience. The adjoining railway line into the facility immediately reminded me of Auschwitz. Hearing the testimony of a few victims of this house of horrors was a numbing experience. I was so overcome with emotion, while being interviewed for a video documentary afterwards, I could barely get through it. This place represents the worst of humanity. I will never forget what I experienced when visiting this place of evil intent.
@@user-td2jw9ze2c Individuals who were effected by the chemicals left in the area are survivors of its impact yes. Left sterile, with rare cancers and host of other health related issues.
To be fair even if the Japanese military was more sadistic the N@Zs are more well known because 1) they killed a lot more people and 2) there were actual photos and videos documenting concentration camps, so the German experience, and how they own up to their atrocities, is unique in that regard.
@@justintang2294 Yes, there are a lot more photos of German crimes and not of Japanese crimes because our "dear" American "friends" brushed the Japanese crimes under the carpet.
MacArthur never held the Japanese to account....Mountbatten despite what many have said about his personal life .... was livid when MacArthur went ''too light'' on the Japanese.....Mountbatten it seems on this issue never altered his views.
MacArthur was an arrogant piece of filth, turned the US Army on WW1 Veterans during the Bonus Army incident, abandoned the Philippines and his American and Filipino troops (he was also a Field Marshal in the Philippine Army)
That is true. Mountbatten shunned the Japanese for most of his life. A Japanese delegation was forbidden from attending his funeral, as per his wishes.
My grandfather Griff Griffin was an Ace in the Pacific theater during WW II, with 13 confirmed Kills, he told me all about this Imperial Japanese Scientific Unit 731, and what they'd done, and how most got off scott free, sadly.
The X-Files episode has little to do with reality. You're better off watching the movie "Men Behind the Sun" which is a far more accurate and gruesome portrayal of 731.
Cruelty in the extreme. Depravity taken to new depths of perversity. They've never apologized for these crimes against humanity. They were the cruelest people on this earth.Disgusting.
Folks here in the East are very much aware of this unit and a lot of other crimes the Japanese Empire committed during the war. Bright side that I'm seeing lately is that despite how much some older generations and the government itself handwave these things, a lotta younger Japanese folks are becoming increasingly aware of it just from learning about it online. And not many of them are the type to make excuses for any of it. But there's also this problem I see when either Westerners or other Asians bring this up in forums or comments, they're keen on making it seem like Japanese people today are still the exact same kind of people who committed these acts, and it's caused quite a few people to be defensive about it online. It's about as ridiculous as pretending like modern day Germans are no different from the Nazis, except when it comes to the Japanese, folks actually buy that insane notion.
The thing is that the same government that caused these war crimes are still the same government today, like as the channel knowing better puts it perfectly “nazis don’t exist anymore”
@@hiimryan2388 I know. But I'm not talking about the government. I already mentioned how they try to distance themselves from their history in the worst way possible by just ignoring or handwaving it away. I'm talking about people who make sweeping statements to make it seem like every Japanese person today is just as bad as the Empire was. Hell. Won't take long to see those kinds of comments even on this video, I guarantee it.
General MacArthur granted Dr. IIshi and his Staff immunity from prosecution , in exchange for their records and archives of their Research , of which they actually turned over only a fraction of. It is my opinion that MacArthur grossly overstepped his authority by doing so at best, and committed a War Crime at worst. There is no information that could have been justification for granting them immunity to prosecution , especially considering how that information was gained.
It is quite amazing when you hear the Nazis did this and that. But when it comes to other nations both friend and foe the silence is deafening. We should all be grateful for people like Mark for bringing these dark stories to the light of day.
Specially the stuff going on behind closed doors in america by both private and military research which exposed even innocent people on the street, look up the brain washing program they had, people on the street died from it, they were none the wiser what had happened to them.
Specially the stuff going on behind closed doors in america by both private and military research which exposed even innocent people on the street, look up the brain washing program they had, people on the street died from it, they were none the wiser what had happened to them.
This is an extremely dark chapter in human history. This is what it looks like when humans descend into the deepest depths of depravity, cruelty and sadism.
@@Jasona1976this from the guy who tried to justify interment camps in this same exact comments section. But hey, America'a perfectly peachy, especially before WWII, right? There's no defending or excusing the bastards in the Japanese Empire who did all this. But take your own advice and be honest. Stop pretending like your own country's so clean compared to the rest of humanity.
I did a presentation about Unit 731 in high school. I went over the details of the experiments and then at the end of the presentation I asked my peers which nation they believed committed the atrocities. The majority of them said it was the Nazis and they were baffled to find out imperial Japan was responsible. I’m glad this part of history is getting more attention.
An emeritus professor from my Alma Mater wrote a book about Unit 731 twenty odd years ago, it was of course a shocking read, but your video on the subject makes it all the more horrific.
"Upon the innocent", well said mate. The atrocities committed at this unit are heinous to put it mildly, yet even now not widely known. Thank you shedding light on it in your way, it's much appreciated 🙏 Keep up the good work boss, my favourite channel 👊
Huge thanks for making such high quality videos and based on true story. Thanks for talk about what happened in China, as a Chinese when I saw this video nearly tearing. It is truth and Japanese and Japanese government never ever regretted their behaviour and never apologised. Thanks.
Thank you for your outstanding and thorough work Dr. Felton, I have been waiting for this video for some time. I’m a second generation Canadian, my family’s roots trace back to Harbin. My great grandparents were both in the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. My great grandfather speaks fluent Russian and had been a liaison officer when his unit retreated to USSR. There he was also acted as one of the brigade translator. As a kid I would hear stories told by my grandparents of their days in the far east, conditions were harsh but everyone had the spirit of hope, firmly believing one day they will take their land back from the invaders, and in the end they did
Mentioned in comments that this was one of the darkest moments"in human history" it should be "recent history". This history overlaps lifetimes of many watching this video - hence one of the many truly disturbing acts in WWII . Your factual book and others have taught us this. Much appreciated.
I've known about this for years and I've been trying to spread the word. Japan needs to answer for this. I'm sick of them "forgiving" us every year for dropping the bombs when they were pulling crap like this.
Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m thoroughly appalled and speechless over what I just learned. I’m an American and a nurse of almost 45 years and am ashamed of what occurred.
Dr Felton; Once again, although I knew atrocities were comitted, the extent of these must have really made it uneasy for you to bear. Most probably, it must have been amongst the most difficult video you ever recorded. I am truthfully humbled by the time and explanations you provided in this short documentary and I extend my gratitude to you and your staff (if any) who released it on your channel. Stunning...
I had to click through four different " this is graphic content" warnings to get here. Impressive. I wonder how many Japanese Revisionists/Deniers had to spam report the video for RU-vid to freak out this much?
Wouldn’t surprise me. On one of the anniversaries of the Nanjing Massacre Twitter seemed awash with denialist tweets claiming the Chinese vastly inflate the numbers, or that it was Chinese people doing the killing and blaming the Japanese, and other disgusting messages. I’d say that denial and revisionism is a problem, one that starts with the Japanese government only making half hearted admissions of their many atrocities while still honoring war criminals.
Damn, I coauthored a paper on Unit 731 and the misscariage of justice that was non persecution of them (it was for international criminal law simposium in Serbia), I actually used a few of dr. Feltons papers for historical referance, its amazing to see he made a video on the topic, kind of wish he did it a but sooner so I could off included it as one of my sources (video sourcess were permited, as long as they are by credible authors like dr. Felton) Edit: It is 1st, and to my knowlqdge only paper about Unit 731 and their crimes in Serbian as of today 09.12.2023.
Good work exposing the truth and evils of history, these events are not much discussed, and even less so is it discussed how much of a coverup western powers endeavored to ensure the acquisition of the “research” they conducted in unit 731
Thank you so much Mark Felton for covering this I always wondered when you would. this is definitely a piece of World War II history that should not be forgotten
You left one thing out, during the Soviet trial, they had installed loud speakers outside the courtroom because tens of thousands of people came to witness, when the Japanese and Manchu criminals talked about what they had done, people became so enraged the military police had to fire shots in the air to prevent people from storming the building. Soviet history books would mention Unit 731 well into 1991, during the 90s, the mention was removed by Yeltsin to improve their trade relationship with the Japanese. So we can clearly see, who were on the right side of history, neither Britain nor the americans, hunted down German and Japanese war criminals like the KGB did.
Look up Tongzhou Massacre, Harold John Timperley, Central Propaganda Bureau. Harold Timperley is a western spy funded by the Chinese government. Nanjing was fabricated fiction to hide their worst war crime, TONGZHOU (=TSUSHU) MASSACRE from the international audience. They committed many massacres against Japanese women and civilians. Stop neglecting the true war crimes and do your own research. If you're an adult, please know that this world is filled with propaganda and fabricated stories of the victory countries of WWII. The truth and facts especially inconvenient to the war winners were all removed and hidden from the media. Know the worst war crimes against civilians of the country which lost the war. TO JUSTIFY THEIR OWN WORST WAR CRIMES THEY COMMITTED, THEY HAD TO CREATE FICTIONAL STORIES TO DEMONIZE JAPAN. And the misinformation was escalated year after year after Japan lost WWII. They wanted you to believe that Japan was a demon, which is 100% false. Japan protected Chinese civilians in Nanjing from their own brutal criminal-like soldiers' brutal and selfish crimes. Japan made the city safer than before by protecting civilians from cholera an pestis. LOOK UP NEW YORK TIMES MARCH 26 1933 TITLE "TUNGLIAO SURVIVES A YEAR OF TERROR; Bandits, Bombing Raids, Chol- era and Floods Ravaged This Part of Manchuria. JAPANESE FOUGHT DISEASE Troops Cleaned Up the City and Forced Citizens to Submit to Inoculations. COMMUNITY NOW QUIET Catholic Mission Head Declares It Is Safer Today Than Under the Old Regime." 731 WAS NOT FOR A MASSACRE BUT FOR EPIDEMIC / DISEASE PRECENTION UNIT TO PROTECT CITIZENS. KNOW THAT THIS WORLD IS FULL OF WINNERS' PROPAGANDA AND MISINFORMATION!!! Just because Japan lost a war doesn't mean they were a demon, but the war winners always want you to believe that Japan is a bad guy, which is really racism and wrong. They try so hard to justify atomic bombs which are the worst war crimes and human experiments ever performed on human beings, and the other massacres and genocides the U.S., China and Russia committed against Japanese civilians need to be justified at all cost. This is why they try so hard to fabricate fictional stories, tell lies, mislead and brainwash people for 80 years. Please do not neglect Tongzhou Massacre, Masan Massacre, Kakkonbyo Genocide and Sado Reclamation Group Remains Genocide. If Timperley did not create the Nanjing fiction, why did they ALWAYS misrepresent the pictures of Japanese victims as Chinese and lie in the books, videos and media? Why do they not have real evidence? Because the Nanjing and 731 are scapegoats of the Tongzhou Massacre and other war crimes which they don't want you to know!
I knew about Unit 731, but not this much detail, nor the existence of the other similar units. Thanks for bringing us this horrific but much needed information.
I knew it was only a matter of time before a video on this was made. Few things make me feel as much pure disgust and discomfort as Unit 731. Fun fact. The final emperor of China and leader of Manchukuo Puyi initially showed no remorse whatsoever for his collaboration (due to him being a spoiled and arrogant brat), but once he was shown what Unit 731 had done that finally made something break within him and made him realize just what he had done. Apparently humbled him and changed him for the better.
Look up Tongzhou Massacre, Harold John Timperley, Central Propaganda Bureau. Harold Timperley is a western spy funded by the Chinese government. Nanjing was fabricated fiction to hide their worst war crime, TONGZHOU (=TSUSHU) MASSACRE from the international audience. They committed many massacres against Japanese women and civilians. Stop neglecting the true war crimes and do your own research. If you're an adult, please know that this world is filled with propaganda and fabricated stories of the victory countries of WWII. The truth and facts especially inconvenient to the war winners were all removed and hidden from the media. Know the worst war crimes against civilians of the country which lost the war. TO JUSTIFY THEIR OWN WORST WAR CRIMES THEY COMMITTED, THEY HAD TO CREATE FICTIONAL STORIES TO DEMONIZE JAPAN. And the misinformation was escalated year after year after Japan lost WWII. They wanted you to believe that Japan was a demon, which is 100% false. Japan protected Chinese civilians in Nanjing from their own brutal criminal-like soldiers' brutal and selfish crimes. Japan made the city safer than before by protecting civilians from cholera an pestis. LOOK UP NEW YORK TIMES MARCH 26 1933 TITLE "TUNGLIAO SURVIVES A YEAR OF TERROR; Bandits, Bombing Raids, Chol- era and Floods Ravaged This Part of Manchuria. JAPANESE FOUGHT DISEASE Troops Cleaned Up the City and Forced Citizens to Submit to Inoculations. COMMUNITY NOW QUIET Catholic Mission Head Declares It Is Safer Today Than Under the Old Regime." 731 WAS NOT FOR A MASSACRE BUT FOR EPIDEMIC / DISEASE PRECENTION UNIT TO PROTECT CITIZENS. KNOW THAT THIS WORLD IS FULL OF WINNERS' PROPAGANDA AND MISINFORMATION!!! Just because Japan lost a war doesn't mean they were a demon, but the war winners always want you to believe that Japan is a bad guy, which is really racism and wrong. They try so hard to justify atomic bombs which are the worst war crimes and human experiments ever performed on human beings, and the other massacres and genocides the U.S., China and Russia committed against Japanese civilians need to be justified at all cost. This is why they try so hard to fabricate fictional stories, tell lies, mislead and brainwash people for 80 years. Please do not neglect Tongzhou Massacre, Masan Massacre, Kakkonbyo Genocide and Sado Reclamation Group Remains Genocide. If Timperley did not create the Nanjing fiction, why did they ALWAYS misrepresent the pictures of Japanese victims as Chinese and lie in the books, videos and media? Why do they not have real evidence? Because the Nanjing and 731 are scapegoats of the Tongzhou Massacre and other war crimes which they don't want you to know!
Wow, horrific stuff indeed. It's really difficult to just listen to the horrors that were inflicted on the innocent, but I think it necessary to be informed so that we can guard against these things occurring again.
To be fair to Felton, topics like this are bound to be demonetized, so a guy's gotta get compensated for his work somehow... though I do wish he had a better sponsor than a P2W game.
I hope War thunder does not get upset that this video is age restricted and has the warning message come up before hand. Its important that 1. This information is more widely know. And 2. That youtube know that despite their efforts some companies will still advertise on informational content that might not be for everyone.
Another hit from the best historian! The Unit 731 is a subject that definitely needs more attention. I hope you can explore the Nazi submarine incursions in the Caribbean for a future video Dr. Felton! Have a great day!
I recieved my undergraduate degree in history and a hard-core history fanatic...this Mark Felton teaches me something new and fascinating every time he publishes a new video.
How appalling. The Japanese got away with so many war crimes, especially compared to the Germans. All because MacArthur wanted to appease the Japanese. The Emperor was one of the worst war criminals. Very good video, thank you for educating us all Mark.
