PERSONNEL OF UNIT 731

General Shiro Ishii
​June 25, 1892- October 9, 1959
Japanese army medical officer, microbiologist, and director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army involved in forced and frequently lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Other Members

Masaji Kitano

2nd commander of Unit 731

Yasuji Kaneko

Soldier of Unit 731

Yoshio Shinozuka

Army Medic of Unit 731
In April, 2018, Katsuo Nishiyama, a professor emeritus at Shiga University of Medical Science obtained the list of names of 3,607 people who were involved in Unit 731. The document contains the real names, ranks, and contact information of the people involved, including 52 army physicians, 49 engineers, 38 nurses, and 1,117 army medics. 
Related Book

Unit 731- The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz

The Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese war has left a strong legacy of hate and disgust among many Chinese today. Much of the atrocities committed by the Japanese are now known to most historians. By far, the most despicable and forgotten act against humanity committed by the Imperial Japanese government was its covert biochemical weapons program. Euphemistically labelled as the "Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department" of the Imperial Japanese Army, the Japanese conducted a wide range of cruel and inhumane experiments on prisoners who were often innocent.