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How the US whitewashed Japan's war crimes to build an ally

The US needed an ally in the post-WWII order, and Japan was it. Washington shielded Emperor Hirohito, granted immunity to Unit 731 members in exchange for research, and quietly halted war crime prosecutions.

American journalist Ken LaCorte exposes the secret pact that whitewashed Japan's wartime atrocities, and the mechanisms through which a defeated Axis power was rehabilitated as a sanitized ally. 

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