Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist and general (died 1959)

Shirō Ishii

Japanese Army medical officer, microbiologist (1892–1959)

Surgeon General Shirō Ishii was a Japanese microbiologist and army medical officer, who served as the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. Ishii led the development and application of biological weapons at Unit 731 in China during the…