13 mins ago · Tokyo
Dark past of Japan’s Unit 731 buried under airport expansion
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. South China Morning Post Asia is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Tokyo. The first report grouped here was at 31 Oct 2026, 01:30 UTC. The headline in use is “Dark past of Japan’s Unit 731 buried under airport expansion”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
A village that sent hundreds of men to one of imperial Japan’s most notorious wartime units is being demolished to make way for a runway at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport. Unit 731 carried out lethal experiments on captives, many of them Chinese, to develop biological weapons during the second world…
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- First reported by South China Morning Post Asia
Dark past of Japan’s Unit 731 buried under airport expansion
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