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The U.S. Covered Up Japan’s Human Experiment Labs — and Used Their Data

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We all know about the Nazi death camps — the grotesque human experiments, the pseudoscience paraded as progress. That’s the part of World War II we were taught to never forget.

But what about the other horror — the one the world conveniently forgot?

In Japan, there was **Unit 731**, a secret military bioweapons program where doctors performed live dissections, froze people to death, and unleashed plague and anthrax on entire villages. Thousands were tortured and killed in the name of “science.”

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Nazi human experiments, this grotesque bit of history that we are not allowed to forget, but what about

0:37.4

the other horrors that happened

0:39.0

in Asia? In Japan, there was Unit 731, which is a secret military bio-weapons programs,

0:45.9

where doctors performed live dissections, people froze to death, unleashed plague, anthrax

0:52.4

on entire villages. It was really the creation of a lot of the modern

0:56.8

day bio weapon happened there at the Ishi Labs, which is called Unit 731. Here's the part most

1:04.3

Americans never heard is that the United States government granted full immunity to the man who

1:09.1

ran it, Dr. Shiro Ishi, in exchange for this

1:13.5

research. This makes us not just a culture that hides this story, but was actually

1:19.5

complicit. So while we condemn Nazi doctors at Nuremberg and our own government then, on the

1:25.8

other hand, quietly welcomed Japan's war criminals

1:28.7

because their crimes and that data was useful.

1:32.3

Joining us to discuss this are two researchers who have been on this story for a long time

1:37.2

and are the right people to tell this story.

1:39.5

Jenny Chan is the director of Pacific Atrocities Education.

1:43.0

She spent over a decade uncovering World War II atrocities in Asia through survivor

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