What is Shirō Ishii?
{{Infobox military person | name = Shirō Ishii | native_name = 石井 四郎 | native_name_lang = ja | birth_date = {{birth date|1892|6|25}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1959|10|9|1892|6|25}} | birth_place = [[Shibayama, Chiba|Shibayama]], [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] | death_place = [[Tokyo]], Japan | image = Shiro Ishii in military uniform.png | image_size = | caption = Ishii in military uniform | nickname = | allegiance = [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] | branch = [[Imperial Japanese Army]] | serviceyears = 1921–1945 | rank = [[Surgeon general]] ([[lieutenant-general]]) | commands = [[Unit 731]], [[Kwantung Army]] | unit = | battles = {{plainlist| * [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] * [[World War II]] }} | awards = [[Order of the Golden Kite]], Fourth Class | family = | laterwork = }} Surgeon General {{nihongo|'''Shirō Ishii'''|{{linktext|石井}} {{linktext|四郎}}|Ishii Shirō|extra={{IPAc-ja|i|shii|-|shi|rō}}; June 25, 1892&nbsp;– October 9, 1959}} was a Japanese [[microbiologist]], [[Military medicine|army medical officer]], and war criminal who served as the director of [[Unit 731]], a [[biological warfare]] unit of the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. Ishii led the creation and use of [[biological weapon]]s at Unit 731 in [[Manchukuo]] during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] from 1937 to 1945, including the [[bubonic plague]] [[Kaimingjie germ weapon attack|attacks]] at [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Chinese]] cities of [[Changde]] and [[Ningbo]], and planned the [[Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night]] biological attack against the United States. Ishii and his coworkers also [[Unethical human experimentation|experimented with humans unethically]], resulting in the deaths of over 10,000 people, most of them civilians or prisoners of war. Ishii was later granted immunity in the [[International Military Tribunal for the Far East]] by