A quick overview of the unethical experiments part of the experiment Unit 731.

1. Unit 731
By: Tamarron Austin and Jasmyn Chase

2. The Core Motive
- Core Research Question: How does the human
body react to chemical/biological warfare?
- Research purposes for engineering biological
and chemical warfares
- Create biological weapons and record the
effects of those weapons out in field labs and
testing sites
- Obtain a better understanding of how the
human body’s limits and reaction to the
warfares developed in Unit 731

3. Hypothesis - Primary Objective: Conduct inhumane
experimentation and research in the area of
biological warfare.
- Focused on producing biological weapons
to be used against humans.
- Range of cruel and inhumane experiments
on prisoners.

4. General Methodology
- Went undercover as a water supply and
epidemic prevention for the Imperial
Japanese Army to hold tests
- Many experiments done to test the limits
on the human bodies of all genders and
ages
- Vivisections
- Inoculation of microorganisms
- Forced Impregnation
- Weapons Testings

5. Other Possible
Procedures
- Extremely unethical and inhumane.
- No other legitimate or ethical methods to obtain
similar results.
- Results derived from atrocious experiments that
violated human rights.
- These experiments should never be performed
again.
- Ethical research methods must always be
prioritized.

6. Conclusions of Unit
731
- Development of effective biological warfare
weapons
- Effects of diseases and chemicals on the
human body
- The tests ran also help the world treat frostbite
in an effective way
- Efficiency of weapons
- Lack of scientific methodology

7. Unit 731 (1935-1945) Present
- Inhuman procedures of human
experimentation
- Subjective
- WW II
- Violation of human rights
- No established ethical guidelines
- No consent
- Results are contentious
- Honesty
- Objectivity
- Integrity
- Carefulness
- Openness
- Transparity
- Accountability
- Intellectual Property
- Legality
- Post war
- Nuremberg Code and Helsinki Declaration
- Human Subjects Protection

8. Thank You
Any questions?

9. Works Cited
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https://www.pacificatrocities.org/blog/the-experiments-of-unit-731-torture-in-the-name-of-warfare#:~:text=It
- Keiichi, T. (2005, November 24). Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army’s Biological Warfare Program. (John Junkerman
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