Exposing The USA's Pardon of the Most Vile Person Alive (*DISTRESSING CONTENT)

Before WWII, or better yet, before Japan's invasion of China in 1937, Shiro Ishii and Masaji Kitano were respected medical researchers. Ishii had graduated from the prestigious Kyoto Imperial University in 1916 , and Kitano from the equally prestigious Tokyo Imperial University in 1920. Both later received their Ph.D's in the study of infectious disease and related areas. Kitano was particularly interested in the effects of disease and injury on the intestines and digestive system.

By all accounts, Shiro Ishii was brilliant, but a strange and unpleasant person to be around. During his college career, he grew different kinds of bacteria and kept them as “pets” in petri dishes in his room. These “pets” weren't some post-adolescent way of getting attention or standing out in a crowd, as high school and college student often do when trying to find themselves. No, apparently, Ishii really treated the dishes full of bacteria as friends, talking to them, and seemingly preferring their “company” over that of his fellow students when they asked him to go to social events.

He also seemed to be one of those people who viewed most other people as objects to be used or which got in his way. Many of his colleagues at school described him being “pushy” and “indifferent” to the work that they were doing themselves. It also seems as if Ishii was most comfortable being alone in a lab – he would often study and work at night when others were asleep. In the Japanese culture of then and now, anti-social behavior of this type was and still is, to a certain degree, frowned up. What's more, Ishii further alienated his colleagues by messing up the lab everyone used – and had cleaned up the prior afternoon. In the morning when they went into work, they would find the laboratory in disarray, with dirty equipment strewn all over.

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Scriptwriter: Matthew Gaskill

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