The release of WWII-era military documents this year has given a boost to researchers digging into Japan's germ warfare program. Japan's government has never apologized for the atrocities.

Around 9:30 am on a blisteringly cold Sunday morning in China's "ice city" Harbin, people were lining up quietly in long queues in front of a museum, which is about an 80-minute subway ride from the ...

I believe the elephant in the room here is "pressure" from extreme rightist groups. There seems to be an outsize fear here of these fringe elements, despite their low numbers and buffoonish ...

Atrocities committed by Japanese Army Unit 731, a germ warfare unit once stationed in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, have been further exposed in newly found historical documents. The 24 ...

A photo shows a document substantiating details of the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731 — new evidence of atrocities during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45). [Photo ...

Japan had long denied it engaged in germ warfare in China during World War II. But the situation took a shift in August 2002 when 180 Chinese victims sought compensation from the Japanese government.

The Auschwitz Birkenau State Museumand the Unit 731 Exhibition Hall in northeast China on Monday expressed intention to exchange exhibition. Deputy director of the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, ...

Altered panel: from 'Masakuni Kurumizawa' to 'Mr. A' ...

With a thud that shakes the earth beneath our feet, mud, rock and debris are tipped out of the back hoe of the digger, running down the sides of the gathering pile. What the excavators hope to unearth ...

China is building a museum on the site where the Imperial Japanese Army conducted live biological warfare experiments on prisoners during the war and plans to open part of the facility to the public ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

arguing that it is difficult to interpret the content of the rulings Who cares what contemporary Japanese court rulings say? Several of the people who actually sliced open live prisoners, submerged ...