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Shirō Ishii

1892 - 1959

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Surgeon General Shirō Ishii (Japanese: 石井 四郎, Hepburn: Ishii Shirō, [iɕiː ɕiɾoː]; June 25, 1892 – October 9, 1959) was a Japanese war criminal, microbiologist and army medical officer who was 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 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 colleagues also engaged in human experimentation, resulting in the deaths of over 10,000 subjects, most of them civilians or prisoners of war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shirō Ishii has received more than 2,354,794 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Shirō Ishii is the 80th most popular physician (down from 65th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Japan (down from 70th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Physician.

Shirō Ishii is most famous for his experiments on humans in Unit 731. He experimented on humans by injecting them with various diseases and chemicals to see how they would react.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Shirō Ishii ranks 80 out of 502. Before him are Amenmesse, Cyril of Jerusalem, Theodor Morell, Hotepsekhemwy, Jean Nicot, and Albert Szent-Györgyi. After him are Louis Auguste Blanqui, William T. G. Morton, August Krogh, François Duvalier, Johannes Fibiger, and Jonas Salk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Shirō Ishii ranks 37. Before him are Ernst Lubitsch, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Stefan Banach, William P. Murphy, Robert Ritter von Greim, and Darius Milhaud. After him are Andrey Yeryomenko, Arthur Friedenreich, Corneille Heymans, Bruno Schulz, Alexandre Koyré, and Władysław Anders. Among people deceased in 1959, Shirō Ishii ranks 14. Before him are Owen Willans Richardson, Gérard Philipe, Boris Vian, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Adolf Windaus. After him are Buddy Holly, Errol Flynn, George Grosz, Mike Hawthorn, Bohuslav Martinů, and Alfred Schütz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shirō Ishii ranks 75 out of 6,048. Before him are Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Fumio Kishida (1957), Sonny Chiba (1939), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Kenzō Tange (1913), and Tōgō Heihachirō (1848). After him are Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Nichiren (1222), Emperor Nakamikado (1702), and Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Shirō Ishii ranks 1. After him are Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), Tasuku Honjo (1942), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiraga Gennai (1728), Sunao Tawara (1873), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), and Shinobu Ishihara (1879).

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