New evidence of human experiments and germ war crimes by Japan’s notorious Unit 731 were released by a museum on Friday in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. The Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by Japanese Army Unit 731 has added written confessions, a transportation record of human experiments, old photos of the unit’s soldiers and an incubator for producing plague bacillus.

　　周五，侵华日军第七三一部队罪证陈列馆再次公开了一批七三一部队从事人体实验、细菌研制生产的最新证据，包括专做鼠疫菌用的电流孵卵器，细菌战犯笔供、输送“马路大”的档案以及一批七三一部队当时照片，为七三一部队反人类暴行再添新证。

　　The incubator, collected from a resident in Harbin, directly proves 731’s atrocities of germ experiments and development, said Jin Chengmin, curator of the museum.

　　陈列馆馆长金成民表示：“从哈尔滨的一位居民那里收集到的孵卵器，直接证明了731进行细菌实验和开发的暴行。”

　　It also verified confessions that the base had a culture room that could produce 10 kilograms of germs in 12 or 24 hours, and four incubators that were used for biological production.

　　同时也证实基地有一个培养室，可以在12或24小时内产生10公斤病菌，另外还有4个用于生物繁殖的孵卵器。

　　Unit 731 was a top-secret biological and chemical warfare research base established in 1935, in Harbin, as the nerve center of Japanese biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia during World War II.

　　731部队是1935年在哈尔滨建立的绝密生物和化学研究基地，是第二次世界大战期间日本在中国和东南亚生物战的神经中枢。

　　The unit conducted experiments on live people to test germ-releasing bombs and chemical bombs, among other atrocities.

　　该部队通过进行活体实验测试细菌炸弹和化学炸弹以及其他暴行。

　　Many civilians and prisoners of war from China, the Soviet Union, the Korean Peninsula and Mongolia perished at the hands of Japanese scientists. Some of them were children.

　　许多来自中国、苏联、朝鲜半岛和蒙古的平民和战俘都死于日本科学家的手中，其中一部分人还是孩子。

　　At least 3,000 people were used for human experimentation by Unit 731 and more than 300,000 people across China were killed by Japan’s biological weapons.

　　在731部队中，至少有3000人被用于人体实验，中国超过30万人被日本的生物武器所杀害。

　　A documentary released on Aug 13 by Japan’s NHK vividly presented the cruel truth through testimonies of Unit 731 participants and records of the Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials in 1949.

　　日本放送协会8月13日发布了一部纪录片，片中731部队参与者提供的证词以及1949年哈巴罗夫斯克战争罪审判的记录使731部队的残酷暴行昭然若揭。

　　After Japan’s defeat in 1945, the unit hastily pulled out of China, with 3,000 children and some experimental equipment left behind. Many of the Japanese children were raised by Chinese families.

　　1945年日本战败后，该部队匆忙撤离中国，留下了3000名儿童和一些实验设备。许多日本儿童是由中国家庭抚养长大的。