Unit 731 in Polish Literature

Abstract

The article examines Unit 731, a secret research unit of the Imperial Japanese Army which implemented the programme of the development and production of chemical and biological weapons that was initiated in the 1930s by general Shirō Ishii, as a motif in Polish literature. Unit 731 and the crimes they committed were first openly discussed at the turn of the 1990s, initially in China, South Korea, and Japan, and then in Western countries. This has found some reflection in popular culture, in few literary works, films,