• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The modern relationship between Korea and Japan is deeply fucked, especially given the historical context.

    But during the US Occupation of Japan I’m 1946 and 1947, U.S. authorities offered Unit 731’s leader, Shirō Ishii, and other perpetrators immunity from prosecution for war crimes in exchange for the biological weapons data collected from their experiments.

    The people we slaughtered were civilians and the ones we spared were the worst war criminals.