Unit 731 Research Paper

During World War Two, like its ally the Germans, the Japanese were also performing immoral experiments to people. These experiments were started by a Japanese man named Shiro Ishii and they were performed at a site called Unit 731. Most of the experiments were on Chinese war prisoners. The experiments on this specific testing site were absolutely horrific. Many of the people who were experimented on were tricked to to enter the site through false promises of job offerings. When the people entered the sites, there was no leaving. Brutal, forced experiments were done on them such as vivisections, exposure to various diseases, and extreme survival conditions. Overall, “ three thousand people were sacrificed” (“Unit 731: One of the Most Terrifying …show more content…
The physicians only thought of them as the enemy and treated them as if they were inanimate objects rather than actual human beings. The brutalities that occurred at Unit 731 was one of the worst cases of unethical human experimentation in history.
Unethical experimentations are at least once done everywhere and the United states in not an exception. The United States is often viewed as a country that preaches freedom, equality, and the preservation of rights to its citizens and yet between 1953 to 1964, none of the views above were exhibited. In amidst the Cold War Era, the Central Intelligence Agency was performing gruesome experiments to American citizen. The purpose of Project MKUltra was to conduct “dozens of experiments on the effects of biological and chemical agents on American …show more content…
In most developed countries, human experiments are very rarely done and are usually substituted by animals such as laboratory mice. When a human experiment is absolutely needed, most of the time it needs to be approved by the government and the people partake in the experiment do it completely voluntarily. The Declaration of Helsinki provides the general outline for how a human experiment should be done if it is ethical. Overall most of the declaration claim that the person involved in the research must do it completely voluntarily. They must also have all the information and procedures about the experiment beforehand and the benefits of the experiment must outweigh the costs. In many developing countries, the forced human experimentations are still occurring, especially because of human trafficking, yet many are kept a secret. Developed countries are starting to come away from the mindset that forced human experimentation is