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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 places in the 1990s, it became harder and harder to deny.

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• NPR "New details emerge about Japan's notorious WWII germ warfare program"
• The Asahi Shimbun "Former member of Unit 731 fights nightmares, atrocity deniers"
• Pacific Atrocities Education "Immunity for Atrocity: The US Cover Up of Unit 731 and the Corruption of Postwar Bioethics
• Pacific Atrocities Education "Human Experimentation at Unit 731"
• Wikipedia "Unit 731"

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This week I sit down with Jenny Chan, director of Pacific Atrocities Education, to talk about the many "comfort women" who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese government in the years leading up to and during World War II. We've talked about the generals, the battles, the military movements, but we haven't yet focused on the victims. These women from China, Korea, etc. were often tricked or even downright abducted and forced into comfort stations where they were repeatedly abused by members of the Japanese Imperial Army around the clock. But who's telling their story? To this day there are many who deny this sort of government sanctioned sexual slavery even happened. Let's fix that.

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Snag Jenny's book "The Undrowning Lotus" here!

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• Wikipedia "Nanjing Massacre"
• Encyclopedia Britannica "Russo-Japanese War"
• Encyclopedia Britannica "Treaty of Portsmouth"
• Harvard Law School "J. Mark Ramseyer"

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I'm back this week with the promised second part to my Women in STEM special. This week, we'll explore the stories of 6 more women who changed the world, beginning with Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein who cracked the elusive Japanese Purple code during World War II. Chien-Shiung Wu made breakthrough discoveries in physics and helped develop the first atomic bomb with her critical involvement in the Manhattan Project. Katherine Johnson helped put the first man in orbit and send men to the moon. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space followed shortly after by Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space. And, a cameo you may not be expecting, Judith Love Cohen, mother of actor and musician Jack Black, helped bring the astronauts home during the failed Apollo 13 mission to the moon.

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• Wikipedia "Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein"
• National Security Agency "Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein"
• National Women's History Museum "Chien-Shiung Wu"
• NASA "Katherine Johnson Biography"
• National Women's History Museum "Sally Ride"
• NASA "Sally Ride"
• National Women's History Museum "Mae Jemison"
• Wikipedia "Judith Love Cohen"

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