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Re:How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world by sitkack on Thursday August 06, 2015 @07:22PM (#10020091)
Because General Douglas MacArthur granted the Japanese who participated in human biological experiments pardons to get their cooperation in collecting the research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii

But none of this makes justifying the murder of Japanese civilians ok, esp after the fact.

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Re:How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world by nogridbag on Friday August 07, 2015 @11:19AM (#10022929)
Wow, that's probably the first wikipedia page I've ever had to close because I simply could not handle reading it...
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