2016
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2015-103177
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Unit 731 and moral repair

Abstract: Unit 731, a biological warfare research organisation that operated under the authority of the Imperial Japanese Army in the 1930s and 1940s, conducted brutal experiments on thousands of unconsenting subjects. Because of the US interest in the data from these experiments, the perpetrators were not prosecuted and the atrocities are still relatively undiscussed. What counts as meaningful moral repair in this case-what should perpetrators and collaborator communities do decades later? We argue for three non-ideal … Show more

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“…This resulted in the fact that war crimes in the name of scientific experiments were to this day rela-tive undiscussed. People are unalarmed by the threat of another biological war [23]. It is high time that the records of the Unit 731 become public and transparent to all.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This resulted in the fact that war crimes in the name of scientific experiments were to this day rela-tive undiscussed. People are unalarmed by the threat of another biological war [23]. It is high time that the records of the Unit 731 become public and transparent to all.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to Watts, the veterans of Unit 731 have confessed their criminal experiments, but they were not sure how the judge will assess the evidence they provided. [19] Another study in 2017 [20] conclud-ed that the US should also do more repair because of its handling of Unit 731 at the end of the war. Evidence showed that, due to American's interest in the data from these Unit 731 experiments, the perpetrators were not prosecuted.…”
Section: Post-war Investigationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Continued use of this research raises potential issues of complicity112 to the extent that the international community (including members of TTS, journal editors and peer-reviewers) condemn the use of executed prisoners’ organs in research, but nonetheless benefit from this practice by allowing or facilitating the publication of such research, and subsequently using the findings. The obligations of third parties to avoid complicity depend in part on the magnitude of the moral wrong in question 113. Some research uses of datasets that were obtained illicitly may be permissible 114.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%