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Ishii Shiro (石井四郎) (1889/1890-1959) was the Lieutenant General of Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War.
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In 1932, Shiro Ishii, a physician and medical officer of the Imperial Japanese Army who was intrigued by germ warfare, began his preliminary experiments.
In 1936, "Unit 731", a biological-warfare unit disguised as a water-purification unit, was formed. Ishii built a huge compound -- more than 150 buildings over six square kilometers -- outside the city of Harbin, China. Some 10,000 test subjects, which Ishii and his peers called "logs," eventually died at the compound.
In 1942, Ishii began field tests of germ warfare on Chinese soldiers and civilians. Tens of thousands died of bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax and other diseases.
In 1945, Japanese troops blew up the headquarters of Unit 731 in the final days of the Pacific War. Ishii ordered 150 remaining "logs" killed to cover up their experimentation.
In 1946 the U.S. cover-up of a secret deal with Ishii and Unit 731 leaders -- germ warfare data based on human experimentation would be offered in exchange for immunity from war-crimes prosecution -- began in earnest. Deal was concluded two years later.
Timeline from [1] (http://www.cnd.org/njmassacre/recent-news2.html)
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