Archaeologists found a bunker used by WWII Japanese scientists to conduct human experiments, says a report. They say the site could provide new evidence about war crimes committed by the notorious ...

Depending on who you ask, the bones that have been sitting in a Tokyo repository for decades could be either leftovers from early 20th century anatomy classes, or the unburied and unidentified victims ...

Controlled human infection model, or CHIM, trials, in which carefully screened volunteers are deliberately exposed to calibrated doses of pathogens, are primarily used in a number of European ...

A new database tells the stories of victims of forced medical research during the Nazi era. What role do the specimens and findings from that time play in modern medicine and research?Forced medical ...

Japan is starting to excavate the site of a former medical school that may reveal grisly secrets from World War II. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we ...

A leading bioethicist at Hiroshima University is calling for an anticipatory, rather than reactive, approach to ethics after a Japanese government panel in August backed a report that brings the ...