A former doctor in Japan's World War II navy says he was ordered to perform medical experiments on Filipino prisoners before they were executed. Akira Makino, 84, told Kyodo news agency he performed surgery and amputations on condemned prisoners, including women and children. More at BBC
But we knew this:
Japan's Medical Experiments on Prisoners
Why Japanese doctors performed human experiments in China 1933-1945
or Unlocking a Deadly Secret - The research was kept secret after the end of World War II in part because the U.S. Army granted immunity from war crimes prosecution to the doctors in exchange for their research data. Japanese and U.S. documents show that the United States helped cover up the human experimentation and instead of putting the ringleaders on trial, it gave them stipends.
The accounts now emerging are wrenching to read even after so much time has passed: a Russian mother and daughter reportedly left in a gas chamber, for example, as doctors peer through the thick glass and time their convulsions, watching as the woman sprawls over her child in a futile effort to save her from the gas. More