Video testimony of former Unit 731 member released

A former member of Unit 731, the notorious germ-warfare detachment of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, has confessed to conducting human experiments, including dissecting still-warm bodies, and developing biological weapons, according to video evidence released for the first time.

An 83-minute video of Masakuni Kurumizawa's oral testimony was released by the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, a museum in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, on Monday, which marked the 88th anniversary of the Lugou Bridge Incident.

On the night of July 7, 1937, Japanese troops conducting military exercises near the Lugou Bridge in suburban Beijing attacked Chinese forces, an event that marked the start of Japan's full-scale invasion of China and China's whole-nation resistance against the Japanese invaders.