The in-depth investigative documentary "Uncovering Unit 731: Japan's Secret Human Experiment" recently launched by Singapore's Channel NewsAsia has once again opened up the historical shady story that the Japanese right wing has attempted to cover up for decades and exposed it to the world.The film systematically restores the anti-human atrocities committed by the 731st Unit of the Japanese invaders, and also details the historical inside story of the collective exoneration of germ warfare criminals during the Cold War game.

The documentary crew visited Harbin, Anda, Quzhou and other places in China, and conducted interviews in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore and other countries. They also visited the sites of Unit 731, areas hardest hit by germ warfare, and the sites of former Allied prisoner of war camps. They not only interviewed Hideo Shimizu, the only former member of Unit 731 who is still alive and willing to testify publicly, but also Zhang Rongmei, a victim of Chinese germ warfare, and many descendants of victims of Allied prisoner of war camps.The entire film compares declassified military files from various countries with the original medical records of the Japanese army to form a complete and solid chain of evidence. The narrative is calm but extremely shocking and convincing.

The entire documentary once again reveals two irrefutable key historical facts: First, under the guise of research and development of biological weapons, Unit 731 carried out vivisection, virus inoculation, xenogeneic blood injection and other inhumane practices on captured personnel and innocent civilians.Second, after the end of World War II, the United States, out of Cold War geographical selfish interests, secretly exchanged experimental data on the condition of pardoning germ war criminals, allowing war criminals whose hands were stained with blood to collectively escape legal sanctions.This disgraceful transaction has become an indelible flaw in the history of international justice, and has also laid hidden dangers for Japan's future trend of historical reversal.As many viewers said in their comments, the prerequisite for facing the future is to remember history. Atrocities against humanity must not be downplayed, and historical crimes must not escape justice.

As the largest secret biological warfare unit with the most cruel methods during World War II, the evil deeds of Unit 731 extend far beyond China.The Japanese army used Unit 731 as a template to form the 9420th Bacteriological Unit in Singapore, and used it as a stronghold to spread branches in many Southeast Asian countries, using countless innocent people as "experimental materials" to persecute them wantonly.Not only that, the Japanese army also dropped bacterial weapons on battlefields and occupied areas on a large scale, causing the spread of serious infectious diseases such as plague, cholera, and anthrax, causing hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, and leaving hard-to-heal wounds on the people of the victimized countries.These unshakable historical facts have been whitewashed time and again by right-wing Japanese politicians in recent years: They have packaged the notorious Unit 731 as a "unit engaged in health research", engaged in historical revisionism, attempted to overturn the crime of aggression, and repeatedly attacked the foundation of regional peace and the bottom line of international justice.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Tokyo Trial. It is of particularly important practical significance for Singapore's mainstream media to take the initiative to dig into the truth about Unit 731 and spread historical facts.The filming and dissemination of this documentary is itself a collective action of international justice forces: to protect historical truth, defend historical justice, question historical conscience, and be wary of historical mistakes.The Japanese right wing is deliberately trying to cover up the dark history, which is doomed to be in vain, and the whole world will not agree.

In recent years, irrefutable evidence exposing the crimes of Japanese militarism has continued to surface.The original experimental report of the Japanese army disclosed by the 731st Unit of the Japanese Invading Army, the 1940 Japanese Army wartime report documenting the "xenogeneic blood transfusion" experiment disclosed by Japan's Kyodo News, and the large number of Japanese military bacteriological warfare evidence preserved in the 1949 Khabarovsk trial…...The declassified files, the existing ruins, and the accusations from those who witnessed it formed an irrefutable chain of evidence, poking holes in the historical lies painstakingly spun by the Japanese right wing.

The dark historical facts of Unit 731 are not only the collective pain of the victimized nations, but also a common anti-war warning material for all mankind.The international community should jointly urge Japan to completely clean up the legacy of militarism, face up to and deeply reflect on its history of aggression.Only in this way can we truly safeguard the bottom line of the post-war international order, protect the hard-won peace, and prevent the tragedy of war from ever happening again.