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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mari Yamaguchi

Seiichi Morimura, who exposed the atrocities committed by the Japanese army's Unit 731, dies at 90

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy “The Devil’s Gluttony” exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World War II, died Monday. He was 90.

His official website and publisher, Kadokawa, said Morimura died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital.

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