Unit 731, was part of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Allegations were made regarding Chemical and Biological experiments conducted on American, British, Australian, servicemen in a camp called 'HOTEN' near Mukden, Manchuria.

In the program "Unit731 Did the Emperor Know?" shown on  Independent Television in Britain on 13th August 1985, accusations were made regarding experiments conducted on Prisoners of War in a camp called Hoten, Mukden, Manchuria in which my father was held captive. I asked "what did the Ministry of Defence Know of these allegations? and what documents did they have"

The Minister of Defence, The Lord Trefgarn Conservative Minister of Defence at first said "They had 'No evidence and New Nothing'"

I wrote to the United States Department of Defence History Department and asked the same question to them, this is a reply I received dated 5th October 1989, from Edwin Drea, Chief Historian at the Pentagon.

Drea stated that "There is no question that the Japanese carried out experiments on Chinese, Koreans and Russians during world war two and that some of these experiment dealt with biological warfare--that fact is indisputable"

Then a collection of documents approximately 500 in number, arrived at my door from the United States. It took some time to look through them, there was one that I examined closely. I sent this with one of my letters to the Ministry of Defence asking for an explanation. Eventually I received a reply

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