Unit 731, Internment & Cold War Silence

In Episode 71 of the Common-X Podcast, Jared and Ian sit down with researcher Jenny Chan to explore the overlooked history of World War II in the Pacific.

We discuss:

• The incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066

• The Supreme Court decision in Korematsu v. United States

• The biological warfare atrocities of Unit 731

• The Cold War immunity granted to figures like Shiro Ishii

• The Soviet Khabarovsk trials

• Why parts of WWII history are widely known — and others are barely discussed

This episode examines fear, civil liberties, wartime propaganda, and the difficult moral tradeoffs governments make during global conflict.

History is rarely simple. And sometimes what we don’t learn says as much as what we do.

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