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laborator y work, this is ecstasy, and one’s calling to his profession. Showing
compassion for a person’s death pains was of no value to me. At the lab, I

processed the blood sample quickly and then went back to look into the cell.

His face occasionally twitched. His breath became shallower, and he went

into his death throes. e other four men in the cell, who had the same fate

waiting for them, could not contain their anger. ey took water and poured

it into the mouth of the dead man. is way, an irreplaceable life is tri ed
with to take the place of a guinea pig, and the result is one sheet of graph

paper. Four or ve soldiers, with drawn guns, opened the door to the cell. It

made a heavy sound. ey dragged the dead man out into the corridor and

loaded him onto a hand cart. e other four men, knowing what their fate

would be tomorrow, could not hold down the anger in their eyes as they
watched their dead companion leave. e hand cart disappeared in the

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direction of the dissection room with the tall chimney looming above.”
As requested by the Command of the Japanese Air Force, Unit 731 also

housed a pressure chamber to test the endurance of human organs at high
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altitudes. In this chamber, men died painful deaths.
Many sacri ced their lives for scienti c advancement and it was well

known in the Japanese scienti c community that humans were used as test

subjects for their scienti c papers. In fact, some scienti c papers from Unit

731 researchers referred to their subjects as “Manchurian monkeys”,

“monkeys”, “ Taiwan monkey”, and “Formosan monkey”. It was an open
secret in the Japanese medical societ y that they were using humans as

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experimental subjects.