Shirō Ishii

We are moving now into the absolute extreme of unchecked medical authority.

Shiro Ishii and Jaceph Mingley.

When we examine figures like Ishii and Mengele, we are no longer discussing misguided medical theories, desperate psychiatric fixes, or even Cold War paranoia.

This is something else entirely.

We are analyzing what happens when the fragile veneer of human civilization is completely stripped away and scientific inquiry operates in a moral vacuum of absolute zero.

Let's begin in the Pacific theater of World War II with Shiro Ishii.

He was a surgeon and a high-ranking officer in the Japanese Imperial Army, chosen to lead Unit 731.

This was the military's covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit.

There was other units as well scattered throughout Manchuria, but that was the headquarters.

Unfortunately, Shiro Ishii, Unit 731's commander, was already back in Japan, where he would be captured by American forces and, of course, put to death for his crimes against humanity.

I'm just kidding.

He got a job in Maryland.

And all of the rest were released.

The longest sentences only reaching until 1956.

While obviously none of these guys were Shiro Ishii, they did include Otozo Yamada, the Kwantung Army commander, Kayasuka Ryuji, the chief medical administrator of Unit 731, and Kawashima Kiyosho, the former chief of Unit 731 in totality, among others.

These were as senior as you can get of Unit 731 outside of Shiro Ishii.

From 1937 to 1945, the Japanese killed about 19 million Chinese civilians.

And this is almost unknown outside of China, and we're not talking just about going around and shooting people, we're talking about torture, we're talking about real, real genocide of enormous proportions, including biological warfare, where I would like to mention the Unit 731 and General Shiro Ishii, who was exempt from the Tokyo process.

You know, he was sent to the United States along with his entire unit where the CIA took over the entire biological warfare program.

and they still have it.

That's why they were so fixated on a biological weapons program.

The father of modern biowarfare is Shiro Ishii.

He got poached immediately by U.S. occupation forces and delivered to The War Department, soon to be the Defense Department, they ended up actually teaching at Berkeley of all places, you know, as like in this kind of role of civilian role is like this in old age is like this unassuming like biologist.

But he he was a he was a he was he was a war master of bioweapons.