Unit 731 Leaders
Shirō IshiiThe Northeast Today Magazine said, “Dr. Shiro Ishii was a medical doctor, a distinguished professor, a genius microbiologist with a photographic memory, a decorated soldier, a Lieutenant-General in the Imperial Japanese Army, and the man behind Unit 731.”
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Masaji Kitano
"When the epidemic broke out in Songo, I went to the epidemic site and conducted tests. Diagnosing the infection process, I believed it had most necessary to examine ticks being carried by rats. I had Asahina collect a kind of toge-dani [thorny tick, laelaps jettmar, Vitzithum] attached to Sesuji-nezumi [rat Apodemus egarius]; on November 6, Dr Kanazawa performed tests on these ticks; subsequently Dr Kasahara took over the tests; on December 14 of the same year i received the pathological opinion of Dr Ishikawa and knew the success of our experiment. After that Dr Kasahara et al. made much effort to determine that the agent was a virus. When Dr Ishikawa was transferred to Kanazawa University, Dr Tokoro took over pathological study and was successful in that work"- said by Masaji Kitano, from The Mount Holyoke College
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