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| - After the abduction of Agent Dana Scully, Fox Mulder discovered that these Japanese scientists were given amnesty in the United States after World War II. They continued their work in secret, experimenting with creating an alien/human hybrid in order to develop immunity to alien biological weapons. The Unit 731 scientists at work in the United States were assassinated in 1995.
- was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China).
- In 1940, Unit 731 saw an influx of Soviet prisoners of war captured by Japanese forces at Vladivostok. There the POWs, dubbed "logs", were subject to a variety of experiments under the supervision of Colonel Shiro Ishii. These experiments continued even after a peace settlement had been concluded between Japan and the USSR not long after Vladivostok fell.
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| - After the abduction of Agent Dana Scully, Fox Mulder discovered that these Japanese scientists were given amnesty in the United States after World War II. They continued their work in secret, experimenting with creating an alien/human hybrid in order to develop immunity to alien biological weapons. The Unit 731 scientists at work in the United States were assassinated in 1995.
- was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China). It was officially known as the . Originally set up under the Kempeitai military police of the Empire of Japan, Unit 731 was taken over and commanded until the end of the war by General Shiro Ishii, an officer in the Kwantung Army. Between 3,000 and 12,000 men, women, and children—from which around 600 every year were provided by the Kempeitai—died during the human experimentation conducted by Unit 731 at the camp based in Pingfang alone, which does not include victims from other medical experimentation sites. Almost 70% of the victims who died in the Pingfang camp were Chinese, including both civilian and military. Close to 30% of the victims were Russian. Some others were South East Asians and Pacific Islanders, at the time colonies of the Empire of Japan, and a small number of the prisoners of war from the Allies of World War II (although many more Allied POWs were victims of Unit 731 at other sites)[citation needed]. Many of the scientists involved in Unit 731 went on to prominent careers in post-war politics, academia, business, and medicine. Some were arrested by Soviet forces and tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials; others surrendered to the American Forces. It has been postulated that one reason the scientists were not tried was that the information and experience gained in the studies of the biological warfare was of a great value for the United States biological weapons development program. On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence." The deal concluded in 1948.
- In 1940, Unit 731 saw an influx of Soviet prisoners of war captured by Japanese forces at Vladivostok. There the POWs, dubbed "logs", were subject to a variety of experiments under the supervision of Colonel Shiro Ishii. These experiments continued even after a peace settlement had been concluded between Japan and the USSR not long after Vladivostok fell. Sergeant Hideki Fujita was assigned as a guard at Unit 731 in the middle of 1940 and remained there into the next year. During that time, Japan went to war with the United States in January 1941. In short order, American Marines were captured in China and sent to Unit 731. Unlike their Soviet counterparts, the Americans actively sought to escape captivity. Herman Szulc's efforts led to three escapes, and consequently to Fujita's demotion to corporal.
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