# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shiro-ishii
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:12.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shiro-ishii"
name: "Shirō Ishii"
slug: "shiro-ishii"
description: "Surgeon General Shirō Ishii  was a Japanese biological weapons specialist, microbiologist and army medical officer who served as the director of Unit 731, the largest biological warfare and chemical warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army."
tagline: "Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shiro_Ishii_as_a_Lieutenant_Colonel_of_the_IJA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1892-06-25"
deathDate: "1959-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 105
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump