Japan‘s Tokyo News reported exclusively on the 17th that during the China Invasion War, Japanese military doctors not only conducted inhumane experiments on Chinese civilians and prisoners of war, but even extended the “experimental knife” to Japanese themselves—some Japanese soldiers hospitalized for mental illnesses were deliberately infected with malaria and became human experimental subjects for the military.
According to reports, Matsuno Makoto, a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute at Meiji Gakuin University in Japan, recently confirmed a paper detailing the above experiment. The paper shows that this experiment was conducted in 1940 at the National Hospital in Chiba Prefecture. According to the content of the paper, military doctors from the Japanese Army Medical School (Tokyo) would first prepare a batch of mosquitoes that had already absorbed the blood of malaria-infected people, then let them bite 10 Japanese soldiers with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, observing whether they would be infected and develop illness.
Makoto Matsuno also provided a copy of a paper describing the Japanese military‘s experiment on malaria infection to the Tokyo News. (Tokyo News, Japan)
The experimental results showed that several subject soldiers developed high fever, physical pain, and other symptoms after infection. Malaria is mainly spread through mosquito bites that have absorbed the blood of Malaria parasite-infected individuals, and in severe cases can lead to death.
What is chilling is that this was not an experiment that was secretly destroyed without trace. The relevant paper was published at the time in the journal of the Japanese Army Medical Corps.
Matsuno said that the soldiers who were treated as subjects “might not have accurately recognized the content and risks of the experiment.” He particularly emphasized that the subjects of this human experiment were not “prisoners of war,” but Japanese national soldiers. Matsuno believed that this fact exposed the terrible logic of Japanese militarism, which is that regardless of nationality, as long as people cannot have an effect on the country and the war, they can be treated as experimental subjects or research materials. (Ho Shan)