Surviving member of Japanese germ-warfare unit reveals atrocities committed in China

This is still to today a hidden historical chapter. A Japanese man by the name of Shimizu, now 94 years old, started talking and Global Times has this article:

“Shimizu arrived by plane in Harbin, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on Monday evening and visited the former site of Unit 731’s headquarters building, including the office of the unit commander, the specimen room, and the site of the frostbite laboratory, on Tuesday morning, according to the Xinhua News Agency.”

“Shimizu also said this is his first time out of the country after the war and his first time returning to China. “Instead of worrying about what the Chinese will do to me upon my arrival in China, I’m afraid that those Japanese politicians would prefer to see me dead,” he noted, as reported by media.

In 2016, Shimizu revealed his identity as a former Unit 731 member and began to expose the atrocities of the Japanese Imperial Army through public speeches and interviews, aiming to tell historical truths.”

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202408/1317921.shtml

From People’s Daily

After 79 years, the former Unit 731 Youth Corps member who had just celebrated his 94th birthday, was ready to return to the site that has haunted him for a lifetime — the Japanese bacteriology unit’s sprawling complex in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, where thousands of Chinese civilians and Allied prisoners of war were killed from the late 1930s to the end of the war, and now the Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by the Japanese Army Unit 731.

Despite facing criticism from Japanese society and battling his own deteriorating health, Shimizu was resolute in confronting the past that he had long sought to atone for. “Regardless of all these concerns, I just want to go to China, putting everything else aside,” he told Xinhua in an exclusive interview before he departed from his home in the central Japanese prefecture of Nagano.

http://en.people.cn/n3/2024/0813/c90000-20205275.html

Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, arrived by plane in the city of Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on Monday evening, expecting to testify and expose the crimes committed by the unit during the Japanese invasion of China during the war.

He is expected to visit the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army and the former site of Unit 731 on Tuesday.

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