About this episode

This episode explores the secretive and horrific human experimentation conducted at Japan's Unit 731 during World War II.

Head to Patreon to listen to this full mini fix episode! Join me inside Japan's Unit 731, a top secret human experimentation and biowarfare camp during World War II. The atrocities committed here against mostly Chinese prisoners are truly unthinkable. In fact, they're so hard to believe, many people straight up refuse to believe it. To this day, the Japanese government has never confirmed nor denied what went down at Unit 731. But when declassified records emerged in the US of all place...

People in this episode

Host: Shea LaFountaine

Topics covered

• human experimentation
• biowarfare
• World War II
• atrocities
• Japanese history

Keywords

• Unit 731
• Japan
• biowarfare
• human experimentation
• atrocities
• World War II
• Chinese prisoners

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Unit 731

Places: Japan, China

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