Article: Japan's doctors of death.(Reviews)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: DOCTORS OF DEPRAVITY; Even byJapan's standards of wartime ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  March 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... there knew it simply as Unit 731. It had been set up as a biological warfare unit in 1936 by a physician and army officer, Shiro Ishii. A graduate of Kyoto ... children were murdered in Unit 731. But the atrocities ... at least seven other units dotted across Japanese ...

Article: Biological warfare.(Review)
Issues in Science and Technology;  December 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... than from combat wounds. In 1932, Shiro Ishii, a physician in the Imperial Japanese ... secret production facility called Unit 731 in occupied Manchuria, where ... intelligence agents tracked down Shiro Ishii in Japan and granted him immunity ...

Article: Human guinea pigs `advanced medical science'
The Independent - London;  April 16, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... An exhibition about the unit, including photographs ... Russians". The story of Unit 731 did not end with the war ... understanding. Major-General Shiro Ishii, the army surgeon who masterminded and lead the unit, was particularly proud of ...

Article: Belatedly, Japan admits use of germ warfare: Tuesday, judges ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  August 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... refuses to comment on the unit's activities. In their ... Manchuria were caused by Unit 731's facility at Harbin, set up in 1938 by Gen. Shiro Ishii under the innocuous name ... Prevention and Water Supply Unit. "Its main purpose was ...

Article: Chinese plaintiffs protest against ruling of Japanese Supreme ...
Xinhua News Agency;  May 20, 2007 ;     688 words ... ... epicenter of Japanese atrocities in China during the war years was Unit 731, a biological warfare unit headed by the infamous Shiro Ishii, based at Pingfan near Harbin in northeast China. Unit 731 experimented on prisoners -- Chinese, Russians, Americans ...

Article: NEW SPOTLIGHT ON JAPAN'S MEDICAL TESTING IN WAR.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 6, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... on the infamous germ warfare unit, said yesterday it was the ... a scandalous deal with the Unit 731 officers in the first place ... Douglas MacArthur, granted Gen. Shiro Ishii and other top officers and researchers of Unit 731 immunity from prosecution ...

Article: Japanese woman's account contradicts book about harrowing escape ...
YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea;  January 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Harumi Ishii is the daughter of Shiro Ishii, the mastermind behind the notorious Unit 731, a biological warfare ... south on Aug. 11, 1945 with Unit 731 members, traveling by ... father may also have worked at Unit 731. A publisher's note ...