STORY: New evidence of Japanese germ warfare unit made public
DATELINE: Sept. 4, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:10
LOCATION: HARBIN, China
CATEGORY: POLITICS/MILITARY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the exhibition hall
2. various of the rosters
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JIN SHICHENG, Researcher with Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army

STORYLINE:

Two rosters of Japanese army hospitals that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, have gone on public display for the first time in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

The rosters, compiled by the Japanese Kwantung Army in August 1940, were made public on Sunday at the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army.  

The new discoveries further suggested that the Japanese army hospital in Harbin was closely related to Unit 731 and was an extension of medical crimes committed by Unit 731.
   
SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JIN SHICHENG, Researcher with Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army
"The rosters contained lists of names of staff members from 24 Japanese army hospitals in Chinese cities. The discovery is an important addition to our research on the crimes committed by Unit 731 through military-medical coordination and has a significant historic value."

Unit 731 was a top-secret biological and chemical warfare research base established in Harbin as the nerve center for Japanese biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia during World War II.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Harbin, China.
(XHTV)