The 731 Army has added new criminal evidence, and the "List of Generals and Schools" of the invading Japanese army has been publicly released for the first time
Recently, the Criminal Evidence Exhibition Hall of the 731st Unit of the Japanese Invading Army collaborated with Japanese historical researchers to publicly disclose some of the latest discovered archival materials - the "List of Generals and Schools of the Japanese Invading Army". The discovery of this file added new ironclad evidence to the crimes committed by the invading Japanese army during World War II, such as conducting human experiments, developing bacterial weapons, and conducting bacterial warfare, making the entire evidence chain more complete.
The publicly available archival materials this time are the "List of Active Military Officers in the General's List" and "List of Active Military Medical Officers in the General's List" of the Japanese army invading China, which detailed information on the ownership, transfer, and demobilization of Japanese army officers and officers in the General's List after 1944. The archival material was discovered by Professor Masayoshi Matsuno, a special professor at Heilongjiang University of Foreign Languages, at the National Archives of Japan in July this year, and a photocopy of the archive was recently brought to China.
Jin Chengmin, the director of the Criminal Evidence Exhibition Hall of the 731st Army of the Japanese Invading China: The captains of the four subordinate units of the 731st Army and the relevant lieutenants below are also exposed in this directory, which is also a special place that we have not seen before in this archival material.
Matsuno Chengya, a distinguished professor of Heilongjiang Foreign Languages Institute: According to the "List of General Schools" found this time, we can find that there were 81 general level military doctors in the 731 Army when Japan was defeated, and those who had served in the 731 Army before and were transferred to other forces.
Matsuno Masayoshi also introduced that this historical record records the basic information of 81 general level military doctors in the 731st Army of the invading Japanese army, including two department captains, Shiro Ishii and Masahiro Kitano, including their units, records of job transfers, and demobilization times.
Jin Chengmin, Director of the Criminal Evidence Exhibition Hall of the 731st Unit of the Japanese Invading Army: These directories were also a personnel file of these units at that time. He is a complete disclosure of all the medical officers in the Japanese army system who invaded China. Therefore, this list can be said to make up for the time limitations and personnel limitations of the "Left Behind List" that we found in the past, which distinguishes a single unit.
In 1939, the Japanese army established a specialized bacterial warfare unit in Nanjing
In addition, during the process of sorting out the "List of Generals", researchers also discovered for the first time the relevant information of officers at the rank of "Rong" 1644 Unit, a bacterial warfare unit of the invading Japanese army established in Nanjing.
The "Rong" 1644 Unit was a special force established by the invading Japanese army in Nanjing in 1939, specializing in the study of bacterial warfare. In the archives released this time, there is information about 38 officers at the rank of general in the 1644 unit of Rong, which is also the first time such information has been found in official Japanese archives.
Matsuno Seiya, a specially appointed professor at Heilongjiang Foreign Languages College, said that the list of "Rong" 1644 troops left behind has not been publicly disclosed, so such information has not been obtained before. This time, through this historical record, we can at least know which active military officers belonged to "Rong" 1644 troops when Japan was defeated.
Jin Chengmin, Director of the Criminal Evidence Exhibition Hall of the 731st Unit of the Japanese Invading Army: "Rong" 1644 Unit is an important branch of the Japanese bacterial army. It was established in Nanjing and was also under the guidance of the 731st Unit to complete its organization and organization. The tasks it did were the same as those of the 731st Unit, especially in southern bacterial warfare, where the 731st Unit received cooperation from the "Rong" 1644 Unit during bacterial weapon attacks. Through the discovery of the list of "Rong" 1644 troops, we can comprehensively sort out and grasp the personnel composition of the Japanese bacterial warfare system.
After preliminary sorting, it was found that there were a total of 156 officers and officers from various bacterial warfare units of the invading Japanese army registered in the list. During the research process, researchers found that this list had undergone multiple supplements. At the same time, in these two files, it is clearly recorded that the personnel turnover of the 731 unit of the Japanese invasion of China and other bacterial warfare units, which is another important discovery of the problem of military medical cooperation in the 731 unit of the Japanese invasion of China.
Professor Masayoshi Matsuno, a distinguished professor at Heilongjiang University of Foreign Languages, said: "This time, very important information has been discovered again. Next, I want to conduct research with experts such as researchers from the Criminal Evidence Exhibition Hall of the 731st Army of the Japanese Invading China, to further investigate the truth about the harm caused by the Japanese Bacterial Warfare Forces and the truth about war crimes.".
Jin Chengmin, Director of the Criminal Evidence Exhibition Hall of the 731st Unit of the Japanese Invading Army: The complete list of officers in all bacterial units can be revealed here, revealing the huge scale of the entire specialized bacterial unit. Next, we need to sort out, compare and study the list of personnel discovered this time and the personnel list of relevant bacterial units such as the 731st Unit that have been discovered in the past, and add it to the "Left Behind Register" to finally obtain a comprehensive situation of the specific number of personnel and personnel turnover in each bacterial unit.
Director Jin Chengmin stated that the discovery of this archival material is an important achievement of the joint investigation and search by scholars from China and Japan. In the future, the Crime Evidence Exhibition Hall of the 731st Army of the Japanese Invading China will continue to conduct in-depth research and cooperation with Japanese scholars, allowing more evidence of human experiments and bacterial warfare conducted by the Japanese invading China to be made public.
