What research and development unit allegedly involved ex-soldier Yasuji Kaneko?
Yasuji Kaneko Yasuji Kaneko (金子 安次 , Kaneko Yasuji , January 28, 1920 – November 25, 2010) was an ex-soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army, and a former detainee of both Siberian Internment by the Soviet Union during 1945–1950 and Fushun War Criminals Management Centre in China during 1950–1956. He was known for his extensive war crimes testimony, including his alleged involvement in the Unit 731. His testimony appeared in the 2001 film "Japanese Devils" and the 2007 film "Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking" (although he was not involved in the Nanking Massacre). He was a member of the Association of Returnees from China.
Shinsaku Yanai Shinsaku Yanai (柳内伸作 , Yanai Shinsaku , born 1947, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese writer who formerly held the rank of major in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. He is a graduate of Tokyo Keizai University ( ) and the Ground Self-Defense Force Research School (陸上自衛隊調査学校 ) , where he took courses in psychological warfare. In 1992, while still employed by the SDF as an instructor of military history, he published an article in Japanese magazine "Shūkan Bunshun" in which he suggested that a coup was necessary to clean up corruption in the Japanese political establishment. The incident was described as "an extreme source of embarrassment" for the SDF; the public were more amused than outraged by the article, and even some of Yanai's colleagues anonymously referred to him as a "crackpot". In response, the SDF dismissed Yanai from his post. He was the first officer in any branch of the Self Defense Forces to be dismissed in response to his authorship of a newspaper article.