Shirō Ishii
Surgeon General Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). was a Japanese microbiologist, army medical officer, and war criminal who served as the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.
| Shirō Ishii | |
|---|---|
 Ishii in military uniform | |
| Native name | 石井 四郎 |
| Born | June 25, 1892 Shibayama, Chiba, Japan |
| Died | October 9, 1959 (aged 67) Tokyo, Japan |
| Allegiance | Japan |
| Service/branch | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Years of service | 1921–1945 |
| Rank | Surgeon general (lieutenant-general) |
| Commands held | Unit 731, Kwantung Army |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards | Order of the Golden Kite, Fourth Class |
Ishii led the creation and use of biological weapons at Unit 731 in Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945, including the bubonic plague attacks at Chinese cities of Changde and Ningbo, and planned the Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night biological attack against the United States. Ishii and his coworkers also experimented with humans unethically, resulting in the deaths of over 10,000 people, most of them civilians or prisoners of war. Ishii was later granted immunity in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East by the United States government in exchange for information and research for the U.S. biological warfare program.[1][2]
Shirō Ishii Media
Graduation photo of Shiro Ishii from the Department of Medicine of Kyoto Imperial University in 1920
Ishii in 1939 inspecting water filters at the Battle of Khalkhin Gol
Shiro Ishii
Shiro Ishii at a reunion party of Unit 731 members after the war
Shiro Ishii after the war
References
- ↑ Williams and Wallace "UNIT 731" p. 246, 247
- ↑ Harris, Sheldon (2002). Factories Of Death. pp. 14.