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Masaji Kitano (北野 政次, Kitano Masaji, July 14, 1894 – May 17, 1986) was a Japanese war criminal, medical physician, microbiologist and a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Apr 21, 2018 · Masaji Kitano was a commanding officer of Unit 731. He graduated as a medical doctor at Tokyo Imperial University. He joined the army as an army surgeon with the rank of a lieutenant. Right before the full blown Sino-Japanese War, he taught microbiology at the Manchu School of Medicine in Manchuria.
Masaji Kitano graduated from School of Medicine, Tokyo Imperial University in Japan in 1919 with a medical doctor degree. In 1921, he became an army surgeon, holding the rank of lieutenant. In 1932, he worked in the First Army hospital in Tokyo.
Nov 24, 2005 · Kitano Masaji, who was in Shanghai at the time of Japan’s surrender, was interrogated in January 1946, but he was instructed by Lt. Gen. Arisue Seizo, the Japanese chief of intelligence, that he should not talk about “human experimentation and biological weapons trials,” Kitano later told this writer.
Aug 29, 2002 · The man who succeeded Ishii Shiro as commander of Unit 731, Dr Masaji Kitano, became head of Japan's largest pharmaceutical company, the Green Cross.
Lt. Gen. Masaji Kitano, who served as commander of Unit 731 near the end of the war, went on to the director of Green Cross Corp., a leading maker of blood products founded by another Unit 731 veteran. Today, a bizarre stone memorial that Kitano erected in honor of his experimental rats still stand in a disused rat cellar in China.
Masaji Kitano (北野政次 July 14, 1894 – May 17, 1986) was a medical doctor, microbiologist and the lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army. He was the 2nd commander of Unit 731, a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit responsible for some of the most notorious...
