Page 66 - Unit 731 Testimony

water to record heat loss. "This person is obviously undergoing very little
stress," he comments. His other tests get no mention.

Yoshimura's human experimentation led to his removal from the
chairmanship of an academic organization in Japan. Student protests about
issues including his human experimentation also led to his stepping down
from the presidency of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine.

In 1981, reporters from the Mainichi newspaper searched out former
members of Unit 731 for interviews. (Three of these appear in Part 2 of this
book.) They approached a "former army technician who became president
of a public medical university after the war" and asked him about human
experimentation. His answer, given in his office at the Kyoto Prefectural

University of Medicine, was simultaneously evasive and unabashed:
"Human experimentation? Maybe my subordinates did that, but I never did.
But you people are thinking wrong. Even that did happen, it was war. The
orders came from the country. All the responsibility lies with the country.
The individual is not responsible."

Yoshimura's special, two-story tall "refrigerator laboratory" still stands
at the Pingfang ruins.