Consideration was also given to using high-altitude balloons to carry biological agents across the Pacific to the U.S. troops finally surrendered before the plan might have been executed. and Filipino defenders of the Bataan Peninsula, using bombs filled with plague-carrying fleas, but the U.S. biological warfare defense programs.Įarly in the war, the Japanese considered using biological weapons against the stubborn U.S. Unit 731’s experiments constituted some of the most horrific atrocities of the war, yet Ishii was granted immunity from prosecution for war crimes in exchange for his cooperation in sharing knowledge with U.S. Although accurate numbers are hard to come by, more recent studies suggest the number of Chinese killed by Japanese biological warfare may have been in excess of 500,000. The Japanese dropped bombs filled with biological agents on Chinese military and civilian targets. These included tests with bubonic plaque, anthrax, cholera, small pox, and botulism. POW survivors of the Bataan Death March) as test subjects. Unit 731 conducted research on chemical and biological warfare agents, using live humans (including some Allied prisoners of war, including unconfirmed reports of U.S. The plan was the inspiration of Surgeon General Shiro Ishii, the Director of Unit 731, the biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, located in Harbin, Manchukuo (Japanese occupied Manchuria).
The planned date for execution was 22 September 1945, however Japan announced intent to surrender on 15 August, which was formalized on 2 September 1945, forestalling the operation. The Japanese plan called for using aircraft launched from I-400-class submarines to drop “bombs” containing millions of plague-infested fleas. firebombing of Japanese cities, which killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians. Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was a Japanese plan to wage biological warfare against cities in Southern California, in retaliation for the U.S.
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