Dr. Shirō Ishii

Shiro Ishii

• Born June 25, 1892
• Born in Chiyoda in a China Prefecture.

Profession and Rank

• Shiro Ishii was a Japanese Army Medical Officer
• Ishii was a Lt. General// Capt. Surgeon

School?

• Dr.Ishii graduated in 1920
• Studied medicine at Kyoto Imperial University

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• After his post graduate studies, Ishii toured Europe and the Americas for two years gathering information about biological weapons.

What did Dr.Ishii accomplish

• Assigned to 1st Army Hospital & Army Medical College in Tokyo
• Returned to Kyoto for post graduate studies.

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• On his return from japan he was appointed professor of immunity at Tokyo Army Medical College

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Unit 731

• Also known as 731 Hepburn
• This unit was an undisplayed and chemical warfare and development research unit.

This unit was used for the torture of the Chinese and used by the Japanese. It undertook lethal human experimentation during the second Sino-Japanese war of WWII

Unit 731

• Unit 713, also known as Nana-san-ichi Butai, was an undisplayed biological and chemical warfare and development research unit.
• Used by the Imperial Japanese Army.
• It undertook lethal human experimentation during the second Sino- Japanese War of WWII.
• Notorious for some of the worst war crimes carried out by Imperial Japan.
• Located in today's Northwest China.

In Unit 731, Dr.Ishii conducted some of the most gruesome experiments on humans. Ishii did not discriminate so he tortured everyone he was sent.

His experiments included:
Amputation of hands and arms set to be frozen.
Shot people purposely so his surgeons could perform without anesthetics.
He would tie people down and throw bombs at their body to see how it affected their body.

In the end, Ishii killed over 500,000 people.
Knowing he would be captured for his war crimes, he went into hiding and was found in 1946.
He negotiated with the American police, and he went without punishment. Ishii then died of throat cancer in 1959 at age 67.