Talk:Unit 731

Why the furiganas?
Including furiganas as they’re used in this article seems, to me, to be pure pedantry. They provide no information, as they can without any effort be deduced from the provided romanization by anyone who would know what they are. Even the Japanese article does not use furiganas to provide the reading of “731部隊”. What other articles about Japanese topics do use them? Tokyo, Sushi, Shueisha don’t. Any argument in favor of leaving them here? palpalpalpal (talk) 22:20, 2 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I’m removing them. palpalpalpal (talk) 11:04, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 December 2023
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“MacArthur struck a deal with Japanese informants:[107] he secretly granted immunity to the physicians of Unit 731, including their leader, in exchange for providing America solely, with their research on biological warfare and data from human experimentation”

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“MacArthur struck a deal with Japanese informants:[107] he secretly granted immunity to the physicians of Unit 731, including their leader, in exchange for exclusive American access to their research on biological warfare and data from human experimentation.” 2601:282:1A7E:6570:75BB:7D17:E7:88EF (talk) 03:08, 20 December 2023 (UTC)


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Separate Soviet trials
Is there a reason that source 114 is some random guy's Master's thesis which cites a book by a published historian, instead of just citing the historian directly? It should cite Sheldon H Harris' "Factories of Death", either page 230 in my version or page 321 according to the thesis.

Also, this line "(with one prisoner dying in prison and the other committing suicide inside his cell)." is not backed up by Harris' book or any other source in the article.

According to Harris "The twelve defendants who were convicted received remarkably lenient sentences, given the serious nature of the crimes they committed. The sentences ranged from a low of two years to a high of twenty-five years of hard labor. No one was sentenced to death, despite their confessions to having killed countless Soviet citizens.33 All twelve were repatriated to Japan by 1956."

I'm new so I don't want to make major changes by myself, but the choice of citation is just strange, and its also odd that the line about two of the prisoners dying is not sourced and is directly contradicted by the historian who wrote a book on the subject. DavidEidolon1 (talk) 00:35, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Crimes against humanity category removal
Crimes against humanity is a specific legal concept. In order to be included in the category, the event (s) must have been prosecuted as a crime against humanity, or at a bare minimum be described as such by most reliable sources. Most of the articles that were formerly in this category did not mention crimes against humanity at all, and the inclusion of the category was purely original research. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:49, 14 February 2024 (UTC)