EPISODE · Sep 30, 2025 · 38 MIN
50: Unit 731
from The Decomposing Flower Podcast · host Jen and Kyra
Unit 731 was infamous for the most inhumane human experimentation done in China by the Imperial Japanese Army. Over 500,000 people were murdered because of the experimentations.During WWI, Germany had created something so devastating, that was mustard gas. It was so harmful that in July 1925, 38 countries would sign The Geneva Protocol to stop all biological and chemical warfare in war. Japan had been one of the countries to sign this. But one man, Shiro Ishii, a microbiologist, didn't like this idea. He wanted to use biological and chemical warfare, and so he created Unit 731 to study the effects on anyone in China from infants to the elderly, and today were going to discuss what happened.Content Warning: Torture, bodily harm, mass death, infant death, murder.🥀 Request a topic/case🥀 FOLLOW US🥀 WATCH ON YOUTUBE🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us. All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no one who was/is involved in the case.If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening
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Unit 731 was infamous for the most inhumane human experimentation done in China by the Imperial Japanese Army. Over 500,000 people were murdered because of the experimentations.During WWI, Germany had created something so devastating, that was mustard gas. It was so harmful that in July 1925, 38 countries would sign The Geneva Protocol to stop all biological and chemical warfare in war. Japan had been one of the countries to sign this. But one man, Shiro Ishii, a microbiologist, didn't like this idea. He wanted to use biological and chemical warfare, and so he created Unit 731 to study the effects on anyone in China from infants to the elderly, and today were going to discuss what happened.Content Warning: Torture, bodily harm, mass death, infant death, murder.🥀 Request a topic/case🥀 FOLLOW US🥀 WATCH ON YOUTUBE🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us. All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no one who was/is involved in the case.If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening
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