Shiro Ishii person
also: Ishi, Ishii, Lieutenant Colonel Ishi, Major General Kawashima, Colonel Ishii, General Ishii
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Claims (15)
Douglas MacArthur pardoned
Shiro Ishii book_quoted
“said recommendation in Part 3B is approved. Information obtained from Ishii and associates of biological warfare will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed in war crime evidence. Part 2 said all communications above …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 33:18
Shiro Ishii headed
Unit 731 book_quoted
“the importance of the project and his identity and attachment to it. Unfortunately for Takeda and his cousin, several people survived and later identified them. The camp was actually started in 1933 by Lieutenant Colonel Ishi. He eventually…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 18:45
Shiro Ishii founded
Unit 731 book_quoted
“the importance of the project and his identity and attachment to it. Unfortunately for Takeda and his cousin, several people survived and later identified them. The camp was actually started in 1933 by Lieutenant Colonel Ishi. He eventually…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 18:45
Shiro Ishii headed
Unit 731 documented
“As a result of not warning everybody what they were. So we're going to finish up Unit 731 today. This chapter is called the NATO document and the hunt for Ishii, which is the general that was the Unit 731 commander.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 1:15
United States protected
Shiro Ishii host_asserted
“using the Soviet Union big boogeyman, they decided that was going to provide the cover for justifying protecting Ishii. Under the secret protection of this covert clique of intelligence officials, not one senior officer of Unit 731 was ever…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 37:13
United States paid
Shiro Ishii host_asserted
“and the military, as well as the intelligence people, protect it, who goes on to kill more Americans. Ishii, he kind of faded from public view into retirement in a village where he lived on a comfortable pension, paid for by us, until he di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 41:46
Shiro Ishii headed
Unit 731 book_quoted
“Both of them had the war criminals from Japan and Germany present there, conducting both chemical and biological warfare capability. The material provided by Ishii's Unit 731 personnel, who were busily compiling documents detailing all of t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 6:16
United States recruited
Shiro Ishii host_asserted
“who had not entered the war against Japan until the last few weeks, kept custody of the Japanese was because they had discovered what was happening in secret in Tokyo. In anticipation of the Cold War, the Americans using intelligence operat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7 @ 48:24
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases recruited
Shiro Ishii host_asserted
“who had not entered the war against Japan until the last few weeks, kept custody of the Japanese was because they had discovered what was happening in secret in Tokyo. In anticipation of the Cold War, the Americans using intelligence operat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7 @ 48:24
Shiro Ishii ordered_assassination_of
Unit 731 host_asserted
“This was all happening around mid-August. And the next day after they put all those detonations out and was blowing shit up, the emperor announced the surrender. And Ishii had talked to all of the people before they got on the train and sai…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 42:56
Douglas MacArthur pardoned
Shiro Ishii host_asserted
“MacArthur said. If you feel you cannot get all the information, we're not given to torture, which is a lie. So offer him that promise as coming from General MacArthur. Get the data. Within three weeks, any belief on Sanders' part that no hu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 13:42
Shiro Ishii member_of
Kuomintang book_quoted
“now on trial in Tokyo, particularly during cross-examination of the commander of the Kuomintang Army from 1939 to 1944, of which Ishii's biological warfare group was assigned. In addition, there's a strong possibility that Soviet prosecutor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 30:26
Shiro Ishii headed
Unit 731 host_asserted
“broader, expansive war crimes definition so that they didn't have to try as many people. Plus they were rat lighting them out day and night to save the scientist. Technically, it didn't matter which definition they used. Ishii's group fell …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 35:39
Shiro Ishii trained
Kawashima book_quoted
“If a prisoner survived the inoculation of a bacteria initially, this fact didn't save him from repeated experiments. They just nursed them back to health, which is why the hospital was next door, and then infected them again, over and over …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 29:12
Shiro Ishii trained
Nishi book_quoted
“And they experimented on humans to figure that out. So one of the lieutenant colonels, Nishi, was questioned later and had this to say about one of the experiments. The object of the experiment was to ascertain whether it was possible to in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 27:06
Mentions (36)
▶ 17:09
He spent the next three years of his life as one of 1,485 American and British prisoners of war that were sent to this special prison camp in Manchuria, ran by the infamous Japanese doctor Ishii. He took his work very seriously. He was rela…
▶ 18:45
the importance of the project and his identity and attachment to it. Unfortunately for Takeda and his cousin, several people survived and later identified them. The camp was actually started in 1933 by Lieutenant Colonel Ishi. He eventually…
▶ 19:16
disease specialist in an epidemic prevention laboratory in Tokyo. He was ordered to Manchuria to establish a quote-unquote medical facility with the army. They were there to create weapons of war. Manchuria was the ideal proving ground for …
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That document was a scroll that listed research teams that should be formed to look into microbiology and pathology. After three years of 731's operation, Ishii was promoted to colonel. By that time, the facility had grown to over 3,000 peo…
▶ 25:28
things to be able to use them out of aircraft. Of the diseases pneumonic plague became the most studied. The bubonic form which results from a bite of an infected flea was determined to be the most fast acting. The onset was abrupt with ext…
▶ 25:59
You basically choke yourself because your tongue swells up, blah, blah, blah. Ishii loved that one. He thought it would be ideal to use that as dispersal. And he thought the best way to use it was to infect the fleas and rats and then set t…
▶ 28:43
or experimentees, were wounded in the legs. Seven days later, they died in great torment. Between 500 and 600 prisoners were consigned to Unit 731 every year. Gotta keep a fresh supply of meat to experiment on. According to Major General Ka…
▶ 34:59
And three died each day. And they were burned in the incinerator. No one could resist the experiments. There was no way to escape. Diseases were forcibly injected and administered and then closely noted how they progressed. Sometimes they w…
▶ 42:56
This was all happening around mid-August. And the next day after they put all those detonations out and was blowing shit up, the emperor announced the surrender. And Ishii had talked to all of the people before they got on the train and sai…
▶ 1:15
As a result of not warning everybody what they were. So we're going to finish up Unit 731 today. This chapter is called the NATO document and the hunt for Ishii, which is the general that was the Unit 731 commander.…
▶ 3:24
and von Rippentrop went to the gallows, other men, as guilty if not more so, were spirited away by the OSS. For Ishii, salvation came in the form of Colonel Murray Sanders. He was stationed at Camp Dietrich. His specialty was chemical warfa…
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as what to do with these members of Unit 731. Well, we already know what they did with them because they did the same thing in Germany. Then it became a matter of speed because the Russians had captured all of their camps and liberated the …
▶ 19:28
To May 1947, recommending the retention of Japanese biological warfare information in intelligence channels and that such material not be employed in war crimes evidence. Part two of the cable cited paragraph one states that General Ishii a…
▶ 19:58
Ishii and associates have to date voluntarily supplied and are continuing to supply such information without a documentary guarantee of immunity, meaning it was not in writing. Paragraph three, 19 Japanese biological experts have written a …
▶ 20:55
and animals subjected to biological experiments. General Ishii is writing a treatise embracing his 20 years experience in all phases of biological warfare. It is unequivocally clear because they have photos of the autopsies of people that w…
▶ 21:26
Over a year after the war had ended, the intelligence services were still referring to Ishii as a general. In this message alone, it is shown that there is no doubt that humans were experimented on. Data already obtained from Ishii and his …
▶ 22:58
desirability of avoiding war crime involvement. Since it is believed that the Soviet Union possesses only a small portion of this information, and since any war crime trial would completely reveal that we have all of this data, it is felt t…
▶ 25:20
This message went to everyone. It went to the State Department, the Department of War, Navy, Army, Joint Chiefs of Staff. They all knew. Despite precautions taken to keep these dealings secret, word leaked out among military circles. Before…
▶ 26:55
who at the time was feeling heat from the USSR, this document was submitted. It's called the Interrogation of Certain Japanese by Russian Prosecutor. The Department of State cannot approve the proposal in, and they put the name of the docum…
▶ 27:51
If the assurances were given in writing, at the same time, every practicable precaution should be taken to prevent this information possessed by Ishi from being made generally known to the public. It is therefore recommended, one, that MacA…
▶ 28:21
be retained, in fact, in intelligence channels, unless evidence developed at the international military trial presents overwhelming reasons why that can no longer be followed. Three, that even though no commitment is made, the U.S. authorit…
▶ 30:26
now on trial in Tokyo, particularly during cross-examination of the commander of the Kuomintang Army from 1939 to 1944, of which Ishii's biological warfare group was assigned. In addition, there's a strong possibility that Soviet prosecutor…
▶ 31:23
so they can extract more information to further their own biological warfare and chemical warfare capability. The State Department was doing its best to tiptoe around this issue and put the onus back on the military. Don't put anything in w…
▶ 32:25
You're not going to get prosecuted. You all get to die of old age because we don't give a shit about our military. In secret meetings that occurred in 1946 in Kamakura, Ishii and his senior officers revealed all they knew about the biologic…
▶ 33:18
said recommendation in Part 3B is approved. Information obtained from Ishii and associates of biological warfare will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed in war crime evidence. Part 2 said all communications above …
▶ 35:39
broader, expansive war crimes definition so that they didn't have to try as many people. Plus they were rat lighting them out day and night to save the scientist. Technically, it didn't matter which definition they used. Ishii's group fell …
▶ 36:13
and local Chinese. And China was on our side fighting the Japanese. So it didn't matter. They were not Japanese citizens that were being experimented on. They were allies. So it didn't even matter. No matter what, Ishii and everybody that w…
▶ 37:13
using the Soviet Union big boogeyman, they decided that was going to provide the cover for justifying protecting Ishii. Under the secret protection of this covert clique of intelligence officials, not one senior officer of Unit 731 was ever…
▶ 41:46
and the military, as well as the intelligence people, protect it, who goes on to kill more Americans. Ishii, he kind of faded from public view into retirement in a village where he lived on a comfortable pension, paid for by us, until he di…
▶ 6:16
Both of them had the war criminals from Japan and Germany present there, conducting both chemical and biological warfare capability. The material provided by Ishii's Unit 731 personnel, who were busily compiling documents detailing all of t…
▶ 48:24
who had not entered the war against Japan until the last few weeks, kept custody of the Japanese was because they had discovered what was happening in secret in Tokyo. In anticipation of the Cold War, the Americans using intelligence operat…
▶ 48:54
that rushed across the border into Manchuria and found Unit 731. They had captured several of the people that had remained there. Though the American, British, and Australian POWs held in these locations were released within a few weeks, th…
▶ 49:25
It was then that they discovered the biological weapons experiments that had taken place and the majority of Ishii's group that had evaded capture and had evidently made it back to Japan. These findings were further reinforced when several …
▶ 49:55
If this was so, then the information they had was invaluable to whoever caught them. But the majority of the troops that occupied Japan were the Americans. That meant that unless the Soviet Union could force the Ishii people into public lig…
▶ 50:25
Unless he and all of his 731 personnel were apprehended and tried, and the information concerning their experiments exposed, the Japanese government would find it hard to negotiate a return of their prisoners. When pressed for numbers, the …
▶ 50:56
Even though the Japanese government newspaper protested vehemently, nothing was done. They weren't willing to give up Ishii or expose him or try him. They protected him and basically left all of the Japanese citizens to rot in the Soviet Un…