Blog Post 8

I don't believe that the Emperor had no idea what was going on in that division when it was added to the military.  First of all, the Japanese as a society have too much respect and love for their emperor to keep him in the dark and/or deem him not worthy to know.  Secondly, the emperor had main control over the military, it was the "Imperial Japanese Army."  This army is under the nominal command of the emperor.

Not only was the human experimentation morally wrong, but the dehumanization of these people was atrocious. The fact that they were called "logs" and referred to as numbers show that they didn't even regard them as people.  these people were used simply as tools.  People could have been trained to become army surgeons differently but they chose a much less humane way of doing it.  Instead of working with cadavers, preferably willing cadavers, they used unwilling subjects and tortured them to death for the sake of training.  Even after the "logs" were used, they were not given the respect they deserved.  Kasahara, himself stated that he believes that he is the only person to give these test subjects a memorial service.  After torturing, and killing them, the least they could do was give them a proper burial when that could mean so much to them in terms of what happens to their soul.