Black Sun 731

On the eve of World War II, Japan established Manchukuo in Northeast China and established Unit 731, a research headquarters in Harbin, dedicated to biological weapons research. In February 1945, Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii, a Japanese military surgeon, returned to command Unit 731. With him arrived a group of young men from Chiba Prefecture. The military placed high hopes on these young men, who, along with the new biological weapons they were developing, were seen as the only hope for reversing Japan"s defeat. During their rigorous training, the men were forced to witness frostbite experiments, biological bomb tests, and vivisections on Chinese, Korean, and White Russian subjects. These scenes, stained and distorted by the gory nature of the young men, distorted their instincts. In the early summer of 1945, the defeat of Japanese militarism was inevitable. Shiro Ishii frantically attempted to create a plague bomb to save the "Great Japanese Empire," but the fall of fascism was imminent...