BEIJING - Harbin, provincial capital of Heilongjiang province in northeast China, is most famous for its European architecture and ice festival, when huge structures are carved out of frozen blocks and adorned with lights.
However, a less pleasant history lurks in the city's southern Pingfang district. This otherwise unremarkable suburb has grown up around the former headquarters of Unit 731, Imperial Japan's notorious chemical warfare testing unit, and the complex remains largely untouched, a low-key memorial to a truly gruesome history.
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