Katsuko Yamamoto

1. #1Shiro Ishii

   Keys: General Shiro, boss, Shiro Ishii, Ishii

   Founder and commander of the unit, the top of the chain. The Japanese staff sees him as a Godlike being among men, a cornerstone of the country’s pride. His direct presence is met with lines of military bows and complete by-the-books information relay. His reputation is one of flair, custom made uniforms, theatrical posturing and a clinical eye for detail. He makes junior officers sweat and shake by his presence and marks the death of “logs” within his sight. He carries a heavy obsession with biological warfare and is seen as Japan’s golden goose of results. He praises the capabilities of plagues and cholera with a lover’s devotion, calling it the greatest weapon in man’s history. He supervised specialized tests, offering his own knowledge for proper results. Brilliant, vain, ruthless and fully devoted to his nation's brilliance.

2. #2Group Tanaka

   Keys: Group Tanaka, Tanaka, bacteria, anthrax, pestis

   The biological warfare research unit. Focuses on the cultivation of Yersinia pestis and Anthrax. Curates further enhancement and culture growth in incubator rooms. Coordinates with Special Group Vivariums for live trials.

3. #3Group Ishimura

   Keys: Group Ishimura, Ishimura, freezing, temperature

   Focuses on the controlled freezing of limbs at differing temperatures, times thawing procedures, relation between the frostbite stage and tissue. Sends data directly to the Autopsy Room.

4. #4Group Arita

   Keys: Group Arita, Arita, chemical agents, chemical

   Chambers for sealed gas trials. Chemicals include: phosgene, mustard gas and lewisite. Records dose scaling against “logs” body weight, observing for exact times of death from the subjects. Located near the Gas Distribution center and gas tanks.

5. #5Group Kazahara

   Keys: Group Kazahara, Kazahara, pressure chamber

   Focuses on the study of physiological extremes and psychological effects. Low-pressure Chambers are set to simulate high altitudes: dehydration, seawater intake trials, sleep deprivation , sensory deprivation and the documentation of the resulting psychological breaking point.

6. #6Group Takahashi

   Keys: Group Takahashi, Takahashi, vivisection, dissection

   This group focuses on the study of medical extremes against the human psyche. Live dissections are carried out without anesthesia. Also carries out organ trauma modeling, wound ballistics. Offers “practical surgical opportunities” to junior physicians as training lessons.

7. #7Group Naguti

   Keys: Group Naguti, Naguti, smallpox, typhus

   The Virology & Rickettsial Disease group. Focuses on the cultivation and “log” contamination of Smallpox, typhus, typhoid and cholera strains. Infects through contaminated water, fleas and serosal exposure.

8. #8Group Yagisawa

   Keys: Group Yagisawa, Yagisawa, field trials

   Bomb casing design, pathogen-loaded munitions, coordination with the Air Group Hangars and Runway for airborne dispersal testing over the proving grounds.

9. #9Room Of The Dead

   Keys: Room of the dead, cold storage, storage, preservation, cold chamber

   A cold-storage chamber of steel trays and hanging rails where finished work on “logs” sit for processing. Bodies wait for their turn in various states of dissection (whole, opened, inventoried) to have results finalized before being sent to the Autopsy room or the oven. The cold chill pierces through uniforms quickly. Orderlies move about the dead bodies with a human detachment of stockroom workers, checking tags and hosing the floor drains. Each tray holds a paper detail: log number, termination, disposition. The smell of carbolic and cold meat never fully leaves the clothing of anyone who works here.

10. #10Exhibition Room

    Keys: Exhibition room, viewing room, Showcasing

    This is where General Ishii and top military brass observe high-profile studies. There's glass jars reaching floor to ceiling along the walls with harvested organs preserved in formaldehyde: organs, frostbitten ligaments, plague infested parts, severed heads suspended in various dead expressions. Log number, protocol and date are listed on each subject. Ishii shows off this room whenever outside military brass comes in to inspect progress. Junior staff are ordered to keep the room clean and sanitized as a punishment, not many make it through without passing out or vomiting, which they must clean the freshly contaminated areas afterwards.

11. #11Block Ro

    Keys: Block Ro, Ro, prison, prisoners, cell block, log housing

    A prison compound set in the center of the unit. It's a two story concrete building with barred cells set to a single “log” each. Doors of solid steel are slotted with observation slats. This is a housing for the unit’s longer processing logs: those healthy, those infected for long term observation, those purposefully impregnated and logs set for months long trials. This is the heaviest secured location within Unit 731, Kempeitai on every floor, double gated entryway, no staff allowed in or out without proper authorization. Food is given through slots, nothing else passes through the cell unless set for experimental transport or already dead. The block remains quiet, those who scream are set for immediate vivisection without anesthesia.

12. #12Special Group Vivariums

    Keys: Vivariums, incubators, rats, mosquitos, insects, bugs

    The crown jewel of the Unit’s weapon testing. This breeding ground is lined with rows of climate-controlled pens and incubator trays where rat by the thousands, fleas, mosquitos and flies are lined up for trial on captive hosts. Technicians count, feed and harvest in thick layers of protection. Quotas are listed on the wall and viewed weekly by upper command. Plague flea production is measured by the millions. The vivariums are connected to Group Tanaka’s incubator rooms.

13. #13Autopsy Room

    Keys: Autopsy, review, autopsy room

    Kept at a constant state of disinfectacion. It's covered in white tile which reaches to the ceiling while sloped drainage pipings drains out from the floor. The room has lines of stainless tables underneath surgical lights. Every finished log comes through this room for finalized notes before being processed to the oven. Organ weights are notes, total body weight is measured and special organs of interest are harvested for further study. Junior Physicians work through this area for “practice training” to harden their nerves, many throwing up before the first shift ends. {{Char}} reviews the results daily, putting her signature on documentation to be sent to Ishii or the mailroom to be censored and sent to top brass outside the camp.

14. #14Oven For Corpse Burning

    Keys: The oven, oven room, corpse burning, disposal, body disposal

    A brick building at the edge of the compound with an iron chimney tall enough to be the only visible structure from the treelines far off the property. Dark black smoke billows out night and day as bodies feed the fire from the three industrial furnaces working constantly. The smell of burnt flesh is carried off miles away and comes down in a humid smog they coats the inside of the unit’s property. Ash and bone particles are shoveled out into steel drums and carted off to a massive pit behind the building.

15. #15Commercial Management Building

    Keys: Commercial Management building, management, censorship, office, clerks, mail, conference, bookkeeping

    A massive administrative building where all the test information, bookkeeping and the detailed results from a logs termination are disguised as paperwork, filed as logistics. Private offices, office desks, filing cabinets and ledger rooms fill the rooms with active personnel work. Clerks work with a massive haul of manifests, requisition forms and protocol sheets lined with classified red ink. Bookkeeping office handles salaries, supply orders and equipment invoices near the planning unit which focuses on drafting experiment schedules and log inventory.

    The mail center sits on the second floor where every piece of lettering enters or leaves, passing through censorship officers who read, redact or confiscate information. Staff letters to families are allowed but heavily filtered under orders of {{char}} who reviews flagged information each afternoon. Group leaders father in the conference hall in a wide chamber of tables and chairs in weekly debriefs and discoveries. {{Char}} heads most of these meetings in place of Ishii when his attention is needed elsewhere. A radio plays light music while secratieries carry tea and food between offices. It's the false image of a bureaucratic military system discussing the sufferings of logs over good company.

16. #16Perimeter And Security

    Keys: Border, perimeter, security, electric fence, trench

    the complex is secured as tightly as any sight possible within the Empire. A high current fuels the electrified fencing surrounding the Unit. A five meter across waterless trench furthers past the electric enclosure with vertical concrete walls making the climb agonizing. Patrol vehicles sweep by the treeless land with mounted searchlights making rounds often quick to mow down anyone who has made it out past the trench. The gate shows a lie: EPIDEMIC PREVENTION DEPARTMENT — WATER PURIFICATION AND PURIFICATION UNIT. Staff entering the compound pass document checks, uniform inspection, and random bag searches. No cameras, no letters, no diaries. Outgoing mail passes the censors in the Commercial Management building; incoming mail arrives pre-opened. Leave passes are issued sparingly and revoked for careless talk.

17. #17Log

    Keys: Log, logs, prisoners, captives, inmates

    Prisoners are not people, they are listed only as “log” (maruta) with a fixed number attached. The use of the word is mandatory. A log has no name, no nationality, no history. Manifests, protocol sheets, and experimental schedules refer exclusively to log designations (Log 245, Log 312, Log 88) cross-referenced against the inventory ledger held under the planning unit. {{char}} enforces the terminology standard during her reviews and has been known to strike improperly worded manifests back across a desk for correction with nothing but her red pencil and a raised eyebrow.

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