The famous Japanese writer Seiichi Morimura's book "The Devil's Feast--The Panorama of the Horror of the Manchuria 731 Ishii Bacterial Troop of the Kwantung Army" was published in Japan in November 1981 and July 1982.The author uses documentary methods and first-hand information to systematically expose the Japanese bacterial force, Unit 731, which established a large-scale bacterial warfare research base in Pingfang Town, the southeastern suburb of Harbin, China, and used more than 3,000 prisoners of war from China, the Soviet Union and other countries. The historical facts of vivisection with civilians, development of bacterial weapons, and germ warfare in China and the Sino-Soviet border caused great shock in Japan and abroad.The circulation of this work once exceeded 1.8 million copies, becoming an enduring bestseller.Then, after soliciting the opinions of readers including the former 731 personnel, the author conducted further in-depth interviews in Japan, the United States and China, and made major deletions and important supplements to the original work. Bunko has published a new three-volume edition of "The Devil's Feast: Secrets of Japanese Bacteriological Warfare Forces Revealed".This set of Chinese editions presented to Chinese readers is translated from the full text of the following original works published by Kadokawa Bunko: "Devil's Satiation" published on May 30, 1998 (28th edition), "Devil's Satiation" (Sequel) Published on April 10, 1994 (4th edition), and the third part of "The Devil's Feed" was published on June 20, 2000 (11th edition).

It took more than ten years to publish the new edition of this work, mainly to verify historical facts and supplement new materials.Therefore, the new edition is more accurate and more substantial than the original edition.The first part mainly interviews the former Unit 731 personnel, revealing the dark inside story of this bacterial force known as the "demon"; The materials kept in the United States revealed the disputes between the United States and the Soviet Union over the issue of germ warfare troops, as well as the inside story of the trade between the United States and Japan on Japan’s research on bacterial weapons and technical information on the implementation of bacterial warfare; the third part mainly disclosed In China, he interviewed the complaints of Chinese victims against the crimes of bacterial warfare by the Japanese army and various physical evidence collected at the scene.This set of works is not only powerful evidence of the Japanese war of aggression against China, but also a good teaching material for correct historical education for young people.

Unit 731 is one of the many bacterial warfare units established by Japan in China. This "devil" unit uses vivisection, conducts bacterial experiments, manufactures bacterial weapons, and conducts inhumane bacterial warfare. It is a serious country that Japan has blatantly violated international law. crime.China is the biggest victim of the Japanese army's bacterial warfare. The archives of the Japanese army's bacterial warfare in China published by the Central Archives of China confirm that only according to the records that can be checked, the number of victims of the Japanese army's bacterial warfare in various parts of China exceeded 270,000. People, this figure does not include the number of military deaths, nor the number of people who died after the expansion of the infection.Chinese experts who study the germ warfare of the Japanese invaders believe that far more than 3,000 Chinese, Soviets, Mongolians, and Koreans were killed by Unit 731 through living experiments. The number of people killed in the town.In fact, a large number of human experiments were carried out between 1932 and 1939, and the number of people killed was not counted.Japan's germ warfare unit is not just the 731 unit, and the base where the Japanese army uses the anatomy of living organisms to develop bacterial weapons is not just the Pingfang area in Northeast China.According to investigations, the Japanese army had seven large bacterial warfare bases back then. In addition to Unit 731 in Pingfang Town, bacterial warfare units were established in Beijing, Nanjing, Southeast Asia, and Tokyo, Japan, and a large number of live experiments were done.According to archives, the Japanese invaders conducted germ warfare in more than 20 provinces and cities in China.Bacterial weapons have been used no matter in attack, retreat or mopping up.In many areas, due to the atrocities of the Japanese army using bacteria to carry out massacres, a pandemic was caused, which was horrific, and many people died tragically. In some places, the source of bacteria still remains.According to estimates by relevant Chinese experts, the number of victims in China due to the germ warfare of the Japanese invaders was no less than 2 million.

According to the confessions of the former Unit 731 personnel in the Far East Military Tribunal, the establishment and expansion of this "devil" unit was implemented in accordance with the imperial order of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; The combat operations of germ warfare were carried out according to the orders of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters or the Kwantung Army Command.The "business log" of the staff of the Operations Division of the General Staff Headquarters of the base camp found in the library of the Defense Research Institute of the National Defense Agency "has the value of first-class evidence."However, since the day of the defeat, the Japanese authorities have tried everything possible to destroy the evidence and conceal the truth of this crime. The military's criminal records have created many obstacles for war victims to complain.

Since 1995, the representatives of the victims of the bacterial warfare of Unit 731 and their survivors have sued the Tokyo District Court twice, asking the Japanese state for apology and compensation.Although the court's judgment had to admit that "there is no room for doubt about the existence of Unit 731 and its live experiments", it also confirmed the fact that Japanese Unit 731 had carried out bacterial warfare in China and killed countless Chinese people. All kinds of fallacies dismiss the legitimate demands of the Chinese plaintiffs to plead guilty and pay compensation.It appears that the struggle is complex and will continue.

Respecting history, facing history squarely, and carrying out correct historical education is the purpose of our translation of this new book. We also want to express our solidarity with the just struggle of victims of germ warfare by truthfully exposing this criminal history of the Japanese invaders.When we were working in Tokyo, Mr. Morimura Seiichi said in an interview: ""The Devil's Satiety" describes this period of history from the perspective of the perpetrator, reflecting the truth of history. Many people, especially the younger generation, read After finishing this book, they were greatly shocked. Their reactions were: shock, anger, introspection, determined not to allow such atrocities to be repeated, while the Japanese government tried its best to cover up the crimes committed in the past. Admitting or not admitting that "The Devil's Sate "is a fundamental question of whether to recognize the past history of aggressive wars and crimes of aggression." He emphasized: "Only by acknowledging these mistakes can we prevent the recurrence of such mistakes." The profound words Mr. Morimura said ten years ago sounded.We believe that it is of special and important practical significance to introduce this new edition to readers today when bacteria such as anthrax are once again threatening human beings as biological warfare agents.

On the occasion of publishing this book, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Meng Bai, the president of Xueyuan Publishing House, and Pan Zhanwei, the editor, for their great support and help. translator October 2007 in Beijing