NY Times Publishes Canard Alleging US WWII Bio-weapons Cover-up

Although the Soviet Union tried and convicted of war crimes twelve high ranking Japanese connected to bio-weapons Unit 731,  the New York Times published an article (10/21/2015) that blames the United States for letting war criminals go free and covering up their war crimes.  The article omits any mention that the Soviet Union took prisoner virtually all of Unit 731's personnel in 1945 and convicted twelve of them of war crimes in a public trial in 1949 that the New York Times itself requested to attend.   How could the United States possibly cover up a public war crimes trial that the New York Times knew about and wanted to cover, but was refused access to by Joseph Stalin.

Moreover, how guilty can Douglas MacArthur be for not prosecuting Unit 731 war criminals when the crime sites, evidence, surviving victims, witnesses and accused were virtually all in the hands of the Soviets and Red Chinese?   But, in fact MacArthur had tried over 5,000 Japanese war criminals, convicting most, including the person most responsible for Unit 731:  Hideki Tojo.

Increasingly the New York Times is becoming a venue for anti-American propaganda regurgitated uncritically from leftwing, former Soviet, and Red Chinese sources.

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After a savage and costly campaign to defeat the Japanese in WWII, culminating with dropping atomic bombs on two Japanese cities,  the United States tried over 5,000 Japanese military and civilians for war crimes.   More than twice the number of Germans who were prosecuted for WWII war crimes.  Few were exonerated and over 900 Japanese were sentenced to death and executed, including Hideki Tojo, Japan's supreme wartime leader and onetime commander of the Kwangtung Army of Manchuria and its infamous bio-weapons Unit 731.

August 16 of 1945, the day after Japan surrendered, the Japanese Kwantung Army of Manchuria surrendered to the Red Army and over 500,000 Japanese soldiers were taken prisoner by the Soviet Union.   Among those captured were the personnel, headquarters and facilities for the Japanese bio-weapons Unit 731, which was stationed and headquartered in Harbin, China.  When the Soviets withdrew from Harbin and China in 1946, they took all their Kwantung Army prisoners (500,000+) with them, including virtually all of the Unit 731 personnel and the Japanese bio-weapons technology.   When the Soviets withdrew from China they turned Manchuria, Harbin and the Kwantung Army's remaining weapons over to the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army.

In August of 1949, the Soviet Union held the Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials convicting twelve Japanese for Unit 731 war crimes.

Several Western and Japanese papers, among them The New York Times and the Asahi Shimbun, sought permission to send reporters to Khabarovsk, Permyakov said. But Stalin, perhaps still stung by coverage of the 1938 show trials, refused. It is a pity. Soviet newspapers, fueled by Stalinist xenophobia and communist contempt for the people, dehumanized the defendants and condescended to their readers. Reporters in a totalitarian state [which had also committed heinous war crimes] were ill-suited to consider the moral riddle of what impels men in uniform to commit mass murder and then return home to their families believing their work was good and necessary.

Japan Times -- http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2001/06/05/commentary/world-commentary/the-trial-of-unit-731/

Unit 731 Personnel convicted of war crimes at the Soviet Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials:

• 25 years imprisonment
  • Gen. Otozō Yamada, former Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army
  • Lt. Gen. Kajitsuka Ryuji, former Chief of Medical Administration
  • Lt. Gen. Takahashi Takaatsu, former Chief of Veterinary Service
  • Maj. Gen. Kawashima Kiyoshi, former Chief of Unit 731

• 20 years imprisonment
  • Maj. Gen. Sato Shunji, former Chief of Medical Service, 5th Army
  • Lt. Col. Nishi Toshihide, former chief of a division of Unit 731

• 18 years imprisonment
  • Maj. Karasawa Tomio, former chief of a section of Unit 731

• 15 years imprisonment
  • Sr. Sgt. Mitomo Kazuo, former member of Unit 100

• 12 years imprisonment
  • Maj. Onoue Masao, former chief of a branch of Unit 731

• 10 years imprisonment
  • Lt. Hirazakura Zensaku, former researcher of Unit 100

• 3 years imprisonment
  • Kurushima Yuji, former lab orderly of Branch 162 of Unit 731

• 2 years imprisonment
  • Cpl. Kikuchi Norimitsu, former medical orderly of Branch 643 of Unit 731