Kwantung Army
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The Kwantung Army was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945.
Kwantung Army headquarters in Xinjing, Manchukuo
Kwantung Army on manoeuvres in 1941.
Repatriated Japanese soldiers returning from Siberia in 1946
Unit 731
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Unit 731 , short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It killed an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people. It was based in the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and had active branch offices throughout China and Southeast Asia.
The Unit 731 complex. Two prisons are hidden in the center of the main building.
Building of the Unit 731 bioweapon facility in Harbin
Close-up photo of the Unit 731 main "square building" taken by Unit 731's aviation and photography class in 1940
Human dissection experiment room