Talk:Ken Yuasa

War criminal?

By torturing POWs in ways just as gruesome as the Nazis, isn't this person a war criminal? 68.8.99.245 (talk) 16:34, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On Wikipedia, we use war criminal as a legal term, to describe only those people who have been convicted of war crimes. Perhaps morally this person might be considered a war criminal, but it would be WP:POV to describe him as such; we simply state the facts, and let the reader make up their mind. Robofish (talk) 17:42, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That is a completely unacceptable position to take. Anyone who has admitted to committing war crimes is, in any encyclopedic or moral sense, a war criminal. 62.238.249.71 (talk) 13:16, 23 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yuasa might have not been a member of Unit 731

From Seattle Times: "Yuasa said he was not a member of Unit 731, although he did supply bacteria for its germ experiments."

From Baltimore Sun: "Ken Yuasa, now a frail, 70-year-old physician in Tokyo, belonged to a military company stationed just south of Unit 731's base at Harbin, Manchuria."

From the Author's Notes for Ken Liu's fiction short story "The Man who Ended History: A Documentary":

Noda, Masaaki. "Japanese Atrocities in the Pacific War: One Army Surgeon's Account of Vivisection on Human Subjects in China," East Asia: An International Quarterly, 18:3 (2000) 49-91.
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Aspects of Shiro Yamagata's post-Unit 731 recollections are modeled on the experiences of Ken Yuasa (a Japanese military doctor who was not a member of Unit 731), described in the Noda article.

I don't have access to the Noda article, but it may be another source that says Yuasa was not in Unit 731. Cheesycow5 (talk) 02:34, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]