Perhaps hundreds of thousands more - maybe as many as a half-million - were killed when the Japanese tested their biological weapons on Chinese civilians. Thousands of prisoners were killed in cruel human experiments at Unit 731, which was based near the northeastern China city of Harbin, north of the Korean peninsula and on a border with Russia. The truth is that Japan's Unit 731 committed some of the most heinous war crimes ever. Perhaps you could say it's cynical in that everybody does it.' 'There is a 'uses of the past' question here. And there is a certain truth to that,' says Daniel Sneider, a lecturer in international policy at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
And the Japanese right, the nationalist right, their basic view is that, 'Oh, the Chinese. The Chinese have seized upon this quite a bit. 'I think that it has become a piece of this tortured dialogue over the war between Japan and China. And for those who seek to use them for their own personal reasons. But the facts are out there for those who seek them.
