5. Japanese Military Against Prisoners in Ping Fan, Manchuria, 1932-1945: 1,000 Casualties, 2,000 Wounded
Imperial Japan weaponized biological agents and performed medical experiments on Chinese prisoners. One of the Japanese doctors’ favorites was vivisection, a procedure in which a live patient would be cut open to examine the effects of an infection that the doctors had deliberately given the person.
The Japanese military poisoned Chinese water supplies with cholera and doused entire areas with Bubonic plague to intentionally make people sick. They claimed to be performing medical experiments in a scary harbinger of Nazi Germany and Dr. Mengele.
