the US struck a secret agreement with Ishii. In a memo to General Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964), commander of Allied forces in Japan, Washington recognized that although war crimes had been committed, the experiments led by Ishii and his colleagues were “almost incalculable and incredibly valuable to the United States.”
In exchange for the records of Unit 731’s experiments, the US granted Ishii and his assistants immunity. Ishii died, and his collaborators went on to have careers in prestigious universities and private laboratories.
I get making deals to acquire useful information, but immunity? The deals should have been life in prison instead of execution.
they didn’t really have the cards. usa doesn’t wanna give immunity? no experiment results. what are they gunna do? have another genocide just for science? it was literally the only chance for this information, and they had to give the worst humans that ever existed immunity to get it. it sure is a fucked situation and really makes you think. what god?
I’m pretty ok with reneging on a deal with war criminals, although I do acknowledge that erodes trust in future dealmaking with the US government.
I guess it’s easy to say behind a keyboard, but still feels fucked up, was that really the lesser evil?
if we didn’t get that information, more people would have died. “justice” may have missed out, but justice doesn’t save any lives in this scenario. it’s a super fucked up situation, but i do believe getting that information was the best possible outcome. at least some good came from the suffering of the victims this way. it’s a hard pill to swallow, but nature is a bitch, we’re all only animals, and there is no god.
if we didn’t get that information, more people would have died.
Can you cite a source for this ?
it is not direct lives, so there is no source. we learned information such as the exact temperature a human body dies when frozen, and things that advanced organ sciences and transplants. there’s simply no way to calculate the lives we’ve saved or improved from obtaining the information because it is so far reaching.
That article was appalling to read. But the history was pretty neat, im glad to see more japan ww2 stuff. Ive read alot about America making a deal with japan to take down germany. And i roughly kinda knew japan was doing there own Nuremberg esq warcrimes. But man, those poor people who were subjugated to that…
Honestly a pretty interesting and informative article. Thanks for sharing OP
They were doing that shit to Chinese and Koreans forever. If you like Japan don’t dig too much into why any particular shrine is any m in any particular place because chances are it’s built on some horrible shit. I know of several that were built on piles of random trophy body parts (noses tongues ears).
on second thought, let’s not go to Japan, tis a silly place
Weird way to end the article honestly
The USA always rewarded & protected the worst of humanity.
Deal with the devil…
New? I’ve heard all this on the Chilluminati podcast.
The records were released May 15th
