2025-12-26
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From feeling no regret for wartime atrocities to nuclear rhetoric and military expansion,
how far will Japan's Prime Minister push a ballastist mindset and who will bear the consequences?
Welcome to Road Today, the panel discussion with Miko Anna in Beijing.
Newly released interrogation records have once again exposed the horrors of Japan's Unit 731,
this time in the perpetrator's own worth.
Confessions from senior officers reveal how biological weapons were produced and used against China during World War II,
reminding the world that history is neither distant nor settled.
For decades, Unit 731 has been remembered as one of the darkest chapters of World War II.
But few accounts are as detailed or as damning as the confession of Kiyoshi Kawashima.
As a senior commander within the unit,
what he admitted was a deliberate system of killing built in secrecy.
Kawashima was a Japanese bacteriologist, doctor and military medical major general.
From 1941 to 1943, he held responsible positions in multiple departments of Unit 731,
including the General Affairs Division, the 1st, 3rd and the 4th Division.
The 4th Division of Unit 731, namely the Bacteria Production Division,
is mainly responsible for the production of plague anthrax.
typhoid and cholera bacteria.
The unit was capable of producing 300 kilograms of plague bacteria,
800 to 900 kilograms of anthrax, and up to 1,000 kilograms of cholera bacteria each month.