Japanese researchers discovered the staff of the former Japanese army's 731 troops, which contained names and titles.
According to a report from Kyodo News Agency on July 18, Researcher Matsuna Matsuya, a researcher at the Institute of International Peace, University of Meiji College, also discovered these documents transferred from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Ministry of Welfare to the National Civil Cultural Library.
This document is the organization change report of the Kanto Army stationed in Northeast China. It is used as the "military secret" as the highest degree of confidentiality."Sentences of the Kanto Army Command."
The file was changed to the "Epidemic Prevention to the Water Ministry" in 1940 that the 731 troops were changed to the water ministry in 1940. They recorded the structure of the army, the name and title of the team members.
Among them, the officer's watch records the names and titles of 97 people, such as Sasaki, Shishi Hyo, and ministers of various ministers.In addition to the military medicine, many medical researchers sent from the Department of Medicine Department were recorded as "technicians".On the other hand, the lack of staff reaches 129, and it can be seen that at the time in the process of system improvement.In addition, there is a staff member of the lower player.
The 731 unit is the organization that secretly develops bacterial weapons in the former Japanese army and the organization of human experiments to perform human experiments. Most documents were ordered to burn when they were defeated in Japan in World War II.The research on the actual situation of the 731 troops has always been based on limited information and testimony.Although it has been found to have a "left -behind book" written by the names of the team members and the information of the domestic address in Japan, unlike this information, it has not recorded the structure of the troops and the members of the players.
For this new discovery, Matsuna also said: "This may be the first time that the original Japanese army is made by the original Japanese army that the structure of the departments of the army, the name and title of the team members.How to participate in the troops and how to live after the war '. "
