He graduated in 1920, and married the daughter of Akari Torasaburō, the university's president, in the same year. His daughter Harumi, along with former members of Unit 731 felt that Shiro had been "unjustly condemned" saying "my father was a very warm-hearted person.he was so bright that people sometimes could not catch up with the speed of his thinking and that made him irritated, and he shouted at them." In 1916, Ishii enrolled at the Kyoto Imperial University to study medicine. Some of his classmates regarded him as brash, abrasive and arrogant. He was a "teacher's favorite" and was said to have a photographic memory, able to recite a difficult text from cover to cover in one reading.
Ishii attended the Chiba Imperial School in Chiba City and the Fourth High School in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. The Ishii family was the community's largest landholder and exercised a feudal dominance over the local village and surrounding hamlets. Shirō Ishii was born in Shibayama in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, the fourth son of Katsuya Ishii, a wealthy landowner and sake maker. Ishii was later granted immunity in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East by the United States government in exchange for information and research for the U.S. Ishii and his colleagues also engaged in human experimentation, resulting in the deaths of over 10,000 people, most of them civilians or prisoners of war. Ishii led the development and application of biological weapons at Unit 731 in Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945, including the bubonic plague attacks at Chinese cities of Changde and Ningbo, and planned the Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night biological attack against the United States. Surgeon General Shirō Ishii ( 石井 四郎, Ishii Shirō, June 25, 1892 – October 9, 1959) was a Japanese microbiologist and army medical officer who served as the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.
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