To begin with, a small excursion into history. Detachment 731 is the name of a special unit of the Japanese armed forces, which from 1932 to 1944 was engaged in experiments on living people in the field of biological weapons.
The experiments were so inhuman and sadistic that their description would make the hair stand on end. Prisoners of the Chinese, Mongols, Russians and Koreans, who were simply called "logs", were mainly used as victims.
These "logs" were frozen alive and without the use of painkillers, doused with boiling water, gutted, passed electric current through their bodies, dried, and so on.
The detachment included 3 thousand employees, through whose hands, according to various estimates, from 3 to 10 thousand victims passed. None of the test subjects survived. The bodies were mostly burned in ovens.
For many years, the activities of Detachment 731 were practically tabooed, they were well known in China and Russia, but in the West Japanese fanatical doctors and their "medical discoveries" were received with respect, and moreover, they opened their clinics in the USA and happily lived to see old age.
Only in the 90s, Japan reluctantly officially recognized the activities of Detachment-731, and materials about this began to appear in the Japanese press. And later, in Japanese schools, they began to find suspicious human bones, which were used as teaching materials in biology or drawing classes.
One of Unit-731's experiments.
In 2016, a suspicious skull was found at a school in Kagoshima Prefecture and the date of its owner's death coincided with the years of Unit 731's activity. The skull was eventually quickly buried in a separate grave by the local authorities.
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In early 2018, three human skulls were found at once, and also in schools. Despite the fact that it remained unknown what their dating showed, all of them were also classified as suspicious and caused widespread discussion, since it turned out that no one knows how these bones even got to school and how many years they have been there.
And on January 10, 2019, The Japan News reported on a new find of strange bones. It was no longer just a skull, but many bones of human skeletons that were found in 10 schools in four prefectures, including Kagoshima and Oita.
The teachers were unable to find out how these remains came to them and now they do not know what to do with them. At least one school in Miyazaki has confirmed that they have found a human skull with bones of hands and feet.
All the bone remains found are dated to the very beginning of the Showa period (1926-1989), that is, they are quite suitable for the victims of Detachment-731.
According to police, schools will have no problem if they can prove that the remains are not criminalized and came to them from volunteers or other legal means. However, the teachers do not seem to have any documents for these bones, since they do not know the source of these bones.
In April 2018, the British newspaper The Guardian published an article on the activities of Unit 731. It specifically touched on how the members of the Squad disposed of human bodies.
The article quoted Toyo Ishii, a former nurse from Unit 731, according to which she helped bury the remains of the victims at a special site in Tokyo. All this was done in emergency conditions and in a hurry, since at that time American troops had already entered the Japanese capital in August 1945.
Ishii described in detail how she and her colleague managed to bury a huge number of corpses, bones and just body parts. Where exactly these bodies were buried remains a mystery, as well as where the other thousands of those killed were disposed of.
