had by that point already surpassed the capabilities of Unit 731. The USSR likely also handed out relatively lenient sentences at the Khabarovsk trials in exchange for information and used Japanese documentation to build its Biological Weapons facility in Sverdlovsk.

On 28 August 2002, the Tokyo District Court formally acknowledged that Japan had conducted biological warfare in China and held the state responsible for related deaths.

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