Unit 731

Summary

Unit 731 is a military unit^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.02% of military_unit entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,813 views/month, #1 of 4,978).^[2]

Key Facts

• Unit 731's field of work was biological warfare^[3].
• Unit 731's field of work was chemical warfare^[4].
• Unit 731's field of work was unethical human experimentation^[5].
• Unit 731's field of work was vivisection^[6].
• Unit 731's field of work was tissue and organ harvesting^[7].
• Unit 731's field of work was amputation^[8].
• Unit 731 is in the country of Japan^[9].
• Unit 731's image is recorded as Unit 731 - Complex.jpg^[10].
• Unit 731's instance of is recorded as military unit^[11].
• Unit 731's founder is recorded as Kempeitai^[12].
• Unit 731's headquarters location is recorded as Pingfang District^[13].
• Unit 731's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 131371456^[14].
• Unit 731's military branch is recorded as Imperial Japanese Army^[15].
• Unit 731's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n82080077^[16].
• Unit 731's IdRef ID is recorded as 200255169^[17].
• Unit 731's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 001279860^[18].
• Unit 731's part of is recorded as Kwantung Army^[19].
• Unit 731's Commons category is recorded as Unit 731^[20].
• +1936-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Unit 731^[21].
• Unit 731 was dissolved in +1945-00-00T00:00:00Z^[22].
• Unit 731's participated in conflict is recorded as Second Sino-Japanese War^[23].
• Unit 731's participated in conflict is recorded as World War II^[24].
• Unit 731's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 45.6, 'lon': 126.633333}^[25].
• Unit 731's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01fffq^[26].
• Unit 731's parent organization or unit is recorded as Unit 659^[27].

Body

Founding

Unit 731's founder is recorded as Kempeitai^[12]. +1936-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of it^[21].

Identity

Unit 731's part of is recorded as Kwantung Army^[19].

Operations

Unit 731's headquarters location is recorded as Pingfang District^[13]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Unit 659^[27].

Industry

Fields of work include biological warfare^[3]; chemical warfare^[4]; unethical human experimentation^[5]; vivisection^[6]; tissue and organ harvesting^[7], a surgery^[28]; and amputation^[8], a disability^[29].

Dissolution

Unit 731 was dissolved in +1945-00-00T00:00:00Z^[22].

Why It Matters

Unit 731 ranks in the top 0.02% of military_unit entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,813 views/month, #1 of 4,978).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]