The excavation was ordered after former nurse Toyo Ishii spoke out Excavations are beginning at the site of a former medical school in Japan which could yield evidence of war-time experiments on prisoners. The site in western Tokyo is said to be linked to Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which used prisoners for biological warfare experiments.
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