Shirō Ishii

E395082

Shirō Ishii was a Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist who led Imperial Japan’s notorious biological warfare program during World War II, overseeing human experimentation and war crimes.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Shirō Ishii canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese military officer
microbiologist
person
war criminal
academicDegree Doctor of Medicine
causeOfDeath throat cancer
conflict Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
surface form: Second Sino-Japanese War

World War II
countryOfCitizenship Japan
dateOfBirth 1892-06-25
dateOfDeath 1959-10-09
educatedAt Kyoto Imperial University NERFINISHED
employer Imperial Japanese Army
familyName Ishii
fieldOfWork biological warfare
microbiology
founded Unit 731
givenName Shirō
memberOf Unit 731
surface form: Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps
militaryBranch Imperial Japanese Army
militaryRank lieutenant general
name Shirō Ishii self-link
nativeName 石井 四郎
notableFor human experimentation
leadership of Imperial Japan’s biological warfare program
war crimes during World War II
occupation army medical officer
microbiologist
participantIn Japanese biological warfare program
perpetratorOf crimes against humanity
war crimes
placeOfBirth Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
surface form: Chiyoda, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
placeOfDeath Tokyo
surface form: Tokyo, Japan
positionHeld director of biological warfare research for the Imperial Japanese Army
head of Unit 731
reasonForImmunity exchange of biological warfare data with U.S. authorities
receivedImmunityFrom United States of America
surface form: United States
responsibleFor biological weapons testing on humans
deliberate infection of humans with anthrax
deliberate infection of humans with cholera
deliberate infection of humans with plague
field testing of biological weapons in China
vivisection of prisoners
subjectOf historical research on Japanese biological warfare
war crimes investigations
wasNotProsecutedBy International Military Tribunal for the Far East
workLocation Harbin
surface form: Harbin, Manchukuo

Pingfang district, near Harbin

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Unit 731 commander Shirō Ishii
Shirō Ishii name Shirō Ishii self-link