The Hidden Atrocities of the Pacific War | WWII’s Darkest Secrets
The Rabbit Hole: Conspiracy Theories
Danielle Mercy
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dani is joined by historian and researcher Jenny Chan, founder of Pacific Atrocities Education. Jenny’s work focuses on uncovering overlooked and suppressed histories from the Pacific Asian theater of World War II—stories that rarely make it into mainstream history books.
Jenny shares her personal journey into researching wartime atrocities and explains why so many of these events remained hidden for decades. Together, we dive into one of the most shocking tragedies of the war—the sinking of the Arisan Maru—a devastating disaster that killed more American POWs than almost any other maritime tragedy in U.S. history.
We also revisit the horrifying experiments conducted by Unit 731, the secret biological and chemical warfare program of the Imperial Japanese Army, and discuss why the full truth about these crimes remained buried for so long.
https://www.pacificatrocities.org
https://www.youtube.com/@PacificFrontUntold
www.stayskeptical.com
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Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jcwvgWpPz8GqLxNwpeJM7AHqBJL2O3JWVdE8ggKK7_8/edit?usp=sharing
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the rabbit hole. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm your host, Danny, and today we have the pleasure of having Jenny Chan on the podcast. |
| 0:25.4 | She is the founder of Pacific Atrocities Education, where they unearth hidden histories from the Pacific Asian Theater of World War II. |
| 0:33.7 | It is such an important work because the history behind the Pacific Asian |
| 0:39.0 | Theater is completely hidden. I think we are each going to learn so much from her about what |
| 0:45.9 | actually happened in the Asian theater during World War II that they do not want us to know. |
| 0:52.3 | Hi, Jenny. Thank you so much for joining me on the rabbit hole. |
| 0:55.7 | Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be on here. Me too. I feel like you are doing |
| 1:00.8 | such good work when it comes to like World War II and the like history. I think that they hid so much |
| 1:07.5 | history in World War II that like what you're doing is so important. |
| 1:11.6 | Will you give us like a little bit of background about like why you chose to unmask |
| 1:17.6 | the actual truth versus like whatever history they're telling us is true? |
| 1:23.5 | Yeah. So I realized that especially talking to family, that there was a lot that happened in World War II that was just never talked about. |
| 1:35.8 | When I was younger, when I was turning on TV and I was watching Japanese anime, she'll get triggered. |
| 1:45.8 | And she started like yelling about like how these people are very evil and I shouldn't watch |
| 1:52.5 | anime to further my brain rot. And I thought like, wow, my grandma is like, maybe she's |
| 1:59.2 | demented and she's not doing too well um and i feel like |
| 2:04.6 | all of our grandmas we were young they're like that's gonna rot your brain but she wasn't like |
| 2:11.0 | that when i turned on like winnie the poo okay so that's always been like in the back of my mind like |
| 2:16.6 | oh why did my grandma react like this? |
| 2:19.8 | And then it wasn't until she passed away. |
| 2:21.8 | We found like a box of a military yen and like rice rationing coupon. |
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