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Report on Wartime 'Cross-Species Blood' Experiments Stirs Relativism and Media Distrust
Kyodo News reported that during the Second Sino-Japanese War, an instructor at the Army Medical School recorded repeated 'cross-species' transfusion experiments injecting animal blood into people—drawn from records preserved in the journal of the official 'Army Medical Corps,' reportedly covering 23 subjects of unknown background and including large-volume horse-blood transfusions deemed beyond the pale. Online, alongside shock, the dominant strands were relativism ('every country ran similar human experiments in wartime') and suspicion of why Kyodo would report this 'now,' framing the timing as politically motivated.