Shiro Ishii: The Mad Scientist Who Created Plague Bombs in WWII
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The 40s literally had Super Villains running around .
spawns of war
And now There are more villains today.
This would make all of Marvels villains look like saints...
dyfvyd ydvdy what lol
@Amuro Ray
You know what? You're probably right.. but I just don't like when people try to say in regards to WWII that the 'good' side won..
Imagine suffering in a Japanese PoW camp for 2 or 3 years, being malnourished almost to the point of death, you’re finally rescued and then your government pardons the man who injected anthrax into your eyeballs, in exchange for his information gained through torture and systematic genocide of not only innocent civilians but your fellow American soldiers.
Well, like FDR said. War is young men dying and suffering while old men sit in their office doing the talking.
That must have been horrifying and / or depressing:
Your comrades and friends dying from torture / human experimentation and you and the other survivors are traumatized for the rest of your lives. Then the higher ups decide after the war giving the bastards responsible a free ticket instead feeding them to a pack of starving rottweilers (or just execute them).
These men must have been felt completely betrayed by their own government.
It would make an interesting Drama- / Action- / Psychologicalthriller movie:
A former US - Marine, suffering from torture and human experimantation at the hands of Unit 731, finds out that his government had pardoned the scientists responsible for his suffering and the dead of his comrades.
He decides to take justice in his own hands and starts hunting down the scientists and the government people responsible for the deal (at this point our protagonist has lost all faith in his country and just wants one thing: revenge).
@@Arengeesus FDR being one of those old, sadistic men lol.
well, "Operation Paperclip" was cynical as well
@@MintyCoffee He kind of had to after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. You cannot be a leader of a country if you just look the other way on such things. If one is that kind of person, he/she needs to get out of the way.
People: hey we should talk about Japan's crimes against humani...
Japan: *WE GOT NUKED WE GOT NUKED*
Dang!...bullseye
Amazing comment
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@@philliphoneysett9039 Wtf? Do you English m8?
Wtf mad science thats touch n nose not a point of unlogical def upon n any explodes that's f_+. Mad
“Even today, many Chinese still hate the Japanese.” Who could blame them?
Nick Randol I’ve been to China multiple times, mostly to shanghai, and I can confirm, the Chinese really don’t like the Japanese
The Chinese hate japanese even though it is in the past because Japan still won't acknowledge it. They don't even teach it to their new generations and try to pretend it never happened. Same thing with Korea. Japan gave Korea a statue and some money and say just shut up about it.
@@MissGenie0607 Mao Zedong and Chiang Khai Shek spilled more Chinese bloods than the Japanese ever did, yet they don't teach that in history.
@@chengzhang4757 but do they tell Mao did the same as well?? They wouldnt dare coz Mao is the founding father of the China People Communist Party.
@@aaronlimeuchin7352 have you visited Taiwan and read the Taiwanese text book
Josef Mengele: I'm the most evil scientist to ever live!
Shiro Ishii: Hold my sake.
I know Mengele and his cruel doings. But this guy?... No wonder Chinese people hate Japan
@dogenator No one but nutters defends them, but the knowledge was unknown and knowledge that need not fall into Soviet hands either (their orchestrated genocides like the famines to kill the peasants, showed there's much worse people in the world than even them).
This is why both Ishii and Von Braun escaped execution, the knowledge they had was worth more to allies if they were kept alive, than dead. Others had no redeeming value to anyone, and thus were executed (common thugs who profited off of misery).
It's terrible to look at it like that, but those who died didn't die in vain. They possibly saved millions (and with von Braun, our species to get us off this planet one day) and history needs to be reminded of those who died to make it possible. Not just look at them as victims (political propaganda) -- THAT in itself is a mockery of what they did sacrifice.
Good people could not do what they did (morals and ethics disallowed it). Bad people did as they had none. But remember also those they killed, for they are the true heroes, possibly saviors of all life on Earth.
Mengele is the most evil scientist
The Unholy Messiah altough they were both probably sadistic ( ishii being negotiable). Shiro ishii eqtually did thing for sciense while joseph megele didnt
lmao
I've been to the camp, taped interviews of former Japanese soldiers at the age of 70 or more, there showed a, let's say unanimous pride, when they described the killing of local farmers, woman and children alike.
Vincent Du Jeez
Do you have records of these interviews? Maybe you could upload them on your channel
I've seen some modern interviews with them in a Russian documentary, they indeed act with pride that they did all that and got away with it.
Many SS soldiers talk with pride about their "time served" as well. I saw a documentary in which a Jewish woman whose entire family was murdered in one of the concentration camps confronted a bunch of SS guards who had served at this camp and they literally laughed in her face and said they regret none of the things they had done.
@Mazhar Imam It was part of a war documentary - but was a couple years ago, so dont remember the name now unfortunately
This man woke up in the morning to create a hyperplague, kill whole villages and torture people.
How he got up, I couldn't begin to understand.
It always starts with deep nationalism. Which leads to extremely deep racial prejudice (aka deep racism). Which leads to dehumanization of people they consider as monkeys. Which leads to this sort of horrors.
@@lolilollolilol7773 also evolutionism leads to the same thing like nazi Germany or some nuts in America that believe this fairy tale
1:30 - Chapter 1 - A charmed life
4:00 - Chapter 2 - Unit 731
7:30 - Chapter 3 - Experimenting with the plague
10:50 - Mid roll ads
12:10 - Chapter 4 - Battling with the west
14:40 - Chapter 5 - Getting away with mass murder
Thank you 💪🏽
"h..hey guys...let's see what happens when you inject anthrax into that toddler!"
"But Jiro, it will just die, we already know this."
"n n no but let's just SEE"
😕
I pictured this as some sort of weird anime scene and it's WRONG
@@JohnnyTromboner
I pictured it as a hentai
@@iliveinsideyourhouse3943 what the f-
Corey in the lab?
Taralea Lorastan very clever
That poor girl who died alone in a field. That made me so sad.
I applaud her sacrifice for the good of the family. Just hope that you aren't called on to do something similar.
May she be remembered.
@Donald Trump What's wrong with you??? That's like saying you shouldn't be sad when your dog dies because people all around the world are starving and loseing their whole families. The lady did a noble thing and there is nothing wrong with acknowledging that.
@@fishbuddy547 It's true. She doesn't matter to any of us. Why should we care? Why should anyone else than the ones that knew her?
The Stalin episode had a nice quote for this...
this is probably the first time in an youtube video that I’m like ”thank god for the ad break”
Ads? Forgot about those lol
You’re not wrong.
It’s disgusting that he was never brought to justice. Rest in peace to those that passed away.
For those interested, there is a foreign movie about Unit 731 called 'Men Behind The Sun.'
OutcastRefugee is that the one with the cat scene?
My god that movie was snuff fest from beginning to the end
@@joeswansonanator I believe so. I've read somewhere that the cat was fine. After shooting the "cat scene", the cat was given a bath and was completely unscathed.
RC99 Productions I know that the cat turnt out alright, but godadamn that scene was fucked up
Heard of that movie. Disgusting as f#%k.
A poetic end to that story would had the money they paid him be covered in small pox.
Ironicaly ,most of the data modern medicine has comes from Unit 731 and the German concentration camps. If those horric experiments ware never done , most of the vacines and cures we have whould of never been available until the invetion of modern diagnostic equipment. The problem was that docters had no idea how desease actually killed people until Unit 731 started opening sick peaople alive to find out. Doctors didnt even had an idea who most of the orgens worked on alive body (the only available data was from operations but it was still limited).
Fleas.
@@mowtow90 not worth it. All we got out of the deal was overpopulated.
@@sydlawson3181 That might not be a problem if the world had some "freak incidents" and "spontaneous plagues" occur that just so happened to allow scientists to learn more about how to better kill, weaken, or strengthen the people affected. *wink wink*
And infected all the people that he spent the money with ie shops, banks etc. Not such a good idea after all especially if it was the americans themselves that gave him the means to start his plague in the states. :~)
As Japanese origin, I am ashamed of having been not knowing any of these and Japanese education has never spotlighted on this heinous war crime. I am tremendously sorry for those victims in China and the survivors who had been through this event.
It's okay but don't forget to teach these to other Japanese so that they're educated and acknowledges the shameful acts of their military
Its the europeans that made them fight against each other
It's not you It's the military
No one is guilty of the sins of their fathers.
@@ninjaswordtothehead No one, but you have no choice but carry that sin. It is a tag on you.
Every country has their dark past, is a shame that Japan has denied and been slow to acknowledge this monstrosity and try to brush it aside and not teach it in their public school. We need videos like this to remind us what we are capable of so we never go there again. So thank you for continuing to create videos on monsters.
They denied it because it's chinese propaganda to them
But in my opinion their citizen couldn't handle the truth of their past military, they tend to kill themself in huge burden of guilt
990000000 years eons
99000000 months
There are Japanese nationalists on Twitter who negate that history or else they'll be called "Anti-Japanese" or "Japanophobe" just for acknowledging the history
Yup
This is the guy who turned the frogs gay
LMAO
Jack Froth 😂😂😂😂🤷🏾♂️🙈
He gave everyone the big G
Pepe?
😂😂😂💀
"in the united states there are ethical laws in place so that american scientists are never allowed to experiment on human beings"
laughs in Tuskegee syphils experiment
laughs in operation top hat
laughs in project MKUltra
Henrietta Lacks too which was in the 50s
@Eric Beller
She was they were more concerned about using her as a case study than treating her
@Eric Beller
She wasn't treated otherwise she wouldn't have died what don't you indeed and about that.
@Eric Beller
Typical American you believe that your country is not capable of evil. I don't understand Lacks and you don't understand the evil nature of your country.
@Eric Beller
Its really simple Doctors aren't allowed to experiment on patients without consent, that's the point ok made. I said the same happend to Lacks and you come in being a smart ass saying it isn't the same, her physical body might not have been experminted on but they had no right to take her cells without permission it's unethical.
Germany and USA: *We need this bomb that levels cities*
Japan: *We need to spread the plague for our emperor!*
They probably need the cities but not its inhabitants
Germany didnt even bother with the nukelar bombs
"The US has laws that prevent human experimentation"
The Tuskagee Experiment would like to doubt
Thank you!
The US never follows their own laws
That was before the war stupid
@@NoName-dd5vq
Before the war stupid
@@itsbeyondme5560 but continued long after, moron.
Just a little FYI, the term used for dissecting a live specimen is called ‘vivisecting.’
Gosh this video was dark, but insightful as always.
No. It's circumsecting.
It's called,
My idea of a friday night,
*AMIRIGHT?*
No it’s not called vivisection it’s called biomutational cold-water chilling formerly known as hydroflexible experimentation of the third kind. Thanks
Spencer Raban gay
Damn
Shiro Ishii is basically the Angel of Death of Japan. Very insightful video Biographics! And quite eerie too...
agree, he got away with his actions due to giving the Yanks his data, little known fact that the US used/tested Plague, Anthrax and Typhoid bombs in North Korea during the 1950-53 war
@brian george I read it in the telegraph back in 2010, lot more evidence come out since then
Mengele of the East
@brian george did you know about it? I bet 90% of viewers had no clue, so yes it's little know
No less than Teller and Oppenheimer.
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
And so it is with science.”
― Richard Feynman
Dumb quote, heaven and hell are escapist delusions for the indolent masses.
@@ember-evergarden well aren't you I just the enlightened little genius!!!!
What's next? You gonna remind us that both sides of the political aisle commit the exact same crimes they accuse the other of?
Really original and brilliant take. If only the rest of us had a glimpse of your radiant brilliance!
Oh well! We can always wish!
@@ember-evergarden I don't think you understood Feynman's quote. AFAIK he wasn't religious.
Damn
When telling what happened to Shiro Ishi after the war, the photograph shown was of Tojo, not Ishi.
Strapping someone to a plank and blowing them up isn't exactly what I would call "science."
It's science with style
They were not testing any normal bomb. They were testing shrapnel bombs laced with anthrax and gas gangrene. The test subjects were placed at varying distances from the bomb wearing varying amounts of protective gear. The army wanted to find out if the shrapnel could infect people with diseases. Declassified US documents show that they could.
Objectively speaking Science is neither moral or immoral. All they did was expirimentation which is a scientific procedure and science has nothing against that.
I see the job of a scientist as a quest for objective answers and that is exactly what they did.
Even though they we're monsters,they were infact scientists.
@@Jinx-iw6zb In this case, the intention behind the experiments was immoral, i.e. testing and developing biological weapons.
@@Bj-yf3im exactly
I thought I knew evil.
Then I watched this video.
His evil is on a whole other level.
Simon, you are doing an amazing job.
Thank-you very much👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Look up Clarence Lushbaugh and Los Alamos Body Snatchers
Whoever talks of the banality of evil, has never seen evil.
by my grandmother's account, during the Japanese occupation on Malaysia, the Japanese soldiers would forced the villagers who disobeyed them to drink soap waters until their stomach bloated and they would kick and stomped on them.
Jesus Christ
Holy cow. I know a lot about this time period in history as it's something I spend a considerable amount of free time studying and I had never heard of this. Thank you for creating this video. There were some truly sad things going on during that time in history. Sick. And sad.
After a long day's work, there is nothing more relaxing than watching a video about one of history's biggest war criminal.
Keep up the good work with biographies. In an always evolving platform such as the Internet, having this type of work displayed (and well cafted) is a sign of competence and improvement
Thank you
"The Men Behind the Sun" was a pretty good dramatization of these events, not for the faint of heart
Just watched it, very graphical for its time.
Bruh i just searched it and i ain’t watching that sht hahahahaha
This topic really hits close to home for me since my maternal family was from Manchuria and my maternal grandmother lived through Japanese occupation. My grandmother was the oldest of 12 children, 7 of which were female. All of my grand-uncles were kidnapped and killed in unit 731, and four of my grant-aunts were kidnapped and used as (and later died as a result of being) military prostitutes, or "comfort women" as they were called, all of them were in their early teens during this time. My grandmother escaped this tragedy because, by chance, she was with my maternal great-grandfather (her father) in Beijing for his work as a professor in Qinghua University. They returned to Manchuria with 74 members of the extended family (numbering 82) dead. My great-grandfather died of a heart attack two days after returning to Manchuria, according to my relatives it was because of a broken heart, and my grandmother left Manchuria behind, never once going back, all the way until her death 16 years ago.
Edit: Bit of disclaimer, I don't personally hate the Japanese people as a whole (though a lot of my relatives do), though I do get quite emotional about these matters. The ones who I do hate with a passion are Ishii himself (along with any scientists in unit 731 who might have shared his sadistic sentiments) and the radical far-right extremists in Japanese politics who STILL, to this day, go around saying that everything they did during the war was not only justified, but morally correct. Personally, I like Japanese culture and has several Japanese friends, though I did get into a huge argument with one such friend (we're still friends though) regarding the atrocities of unit 731.
Hi! Is there a way to get in touch with you? I'm working on a story around this, will you be comfortable sharing the above mentioned details with me?
Damn. I am truly at a loss for words, and I am truly sorry about what happened to your ancestors. May such atrocities never happen on this Earth again (wishful thinking, I know, but we need to always remember the atrocities committed by Mangele and Ishii).
If he's you're friend then he should not argue with facts
@@swastikatripathi5621 I somehow never saw this… but if you’re still working on that story, I would still like to help.
@@hayabusa1329 the sad thing is, Japan doesn’t teach their children the atrocities their own people committed during the war. It’s historical revisionism at its finest (or worst, depending on how you see it). The education system paints Japan entirely as the victim in WWII, a victim of Western imperialism, colonialism, and in the end being used as human Guinea pigs by cold-blooded American scientists for the atomic bombings. The argument was over this very fact and this friend rage-Googled history in an attempt to “prove” that I was talking out of my ass. What he found led him down a rabbit hole that almost ended with him renouncing his own heritage, bit extreme but to be expected of a Japanese person lol.
I have to give Simon Whistler a lot of credit for his delivery and for just being a very compassionate and conscientious human being. When presenting biographies on people like Shiro Ishi, Ilsa Koch and the like, you can see how wearing it can be on the soul to describe the details of man's inhumanity to man. Yet he soldiers on, and I give him considerable credit for the preparation that it takes to get into the frame of mind to present this information on camera in an interesting way. Thank you, Simon.
Hold on. Not only did they not try and execute this bastard, but they paid him too?
Dafuq?
like many other comments say
it was kill him and loose all the information he had making the lives he took be in vein, or let him live and use the knowledge he got via ill means for the betterment of all of mankind
@@randomcow505 Take his research and lynch him anyways. Everyone wins
@@manfromnantucket9544 you my friend don't understand politics. That would be a PR nightmare.
@@LordHeadBooty Like what his victims endured throughout the war wasn't a nightmare either? I'd rather take a little bad press than reward a monster like that.
@@manfromnantucket9544 it wouldn't be a little bad press. Plus if you lynch him you're proving that you're no better than he is.
I've watched so many videos. You have an immense talent for making history palatable in the span of a Seinfeld episode. Thank you.
Simon your one of my favorite narrator's that said these are things that should never be forgotten and lost to time.. Thanks for bringing these stories to us
Thank you for this one, Simon. I can tell that it was hard for you.
Awesome! I remember recommeding Ishii a while back. I hope I had some part in you guys wanting to make this. Love your channel!
Your videos are well done and thank you for the informative vids!
3:20
That's not Shiro Ishii. That's a picture of the Emperor's brother, Prince Yasuhito.
Edit: 4:44
That's not him either. Nor is it the Emperor. That's the most well known photograph of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
Ishii was exhaustingly evil
To quote Eli Vance: murder, genocide, indescribable evil
Well said, my friend.
A dissection on a living subject is called a vivisection
Mr Gomez-Goober vivisection is not a real term. Please use the gender fluid and accepted term ‘human-sacrifice of the third kind’
@@VentandInvent wtf?
I’ve browsed fanfiction tags enough to wish I didn’t know that. 😞
@@hannahbalcera6839 I assume he is joking?
Very informative. Thanks for posting
You are doing a great service providing this little known history.
All of Shiro Ishii's lab workers, doctors, etc. got full U.S. pardons, too. And most went back to Japan and lived normal lives...
@Bobby Danger lots of Germans got off too, if they (like Werner von Braun, for example) were considered useful.
Because they gave the US all their experiment research material. How do you think the Big Pharma is so rich and advanced today?
i think some were decorated as well
From the videos a lot of them were apparently forced to work there or be accused of treason.
Crazy
I wonder if the old adage "Don't take candy from strangers" started with these people?
Doubt it. That phrase has been around longer than English-speaking countries have been aware of Unit 731.
I dont mind your add. They fit the subject and you deserve the sponsorship for the work you put in. :) keep up the great work!
I love this channel your vids are amazing and enjoyable to watch
Thanks Brilliant for sponsoring these bioweapon experiments!
World War 2 (WWII) era
Germans: We've committed the most horrific war crimes ever imaginable!
Japanese: Hold my beer!
USSR: Hold my vodka
No sides was innocent including your country
I'm learning alot about the history of the world from your channel, thanks for the content.
Great video as always, I noticed towards the end of the video there was an image of Tojo used by mistake.
I just discovered your channel and I love it! Don't sweat mispronouncing Japanese words. To my American ears, you mispronounce a lot of your English words! Love you man. Your research and style really streamline the information into digestible bites full of historical nutrition. Thank you
Shiro Ishi, our real life Mayuri Kurotsuchi. Like the villain from the anime, he is cruel (cruelty is even an understatement to describe the horrors he had done during world war two) to his test subjects and had more bacteria as pets than dogs...
Thanks for your work. I learn more from it every day. Thanks..
How this site only has 755k subscribers is beyond me. Amazing info and very accurate . Many more should take the time to learn some of this worlds worst and best history. Keep up the amazing work!
It has grown to more than 2 million subscribers at this point
Great video but why did you keep showing images of Hideki Tojo?
Which ones? Timings of said images? Please and Thankyou ;)
justandy333 4:45
@@thenewcaesar2668 - Hahaha, I councur! Research fail. Ooopps!
though if you do an image search on Shiro Ishii, enlisted is the image of Hideki Tojo
@@justandy333 Who Cares, EVERYONE Makes Mistakes Here and There...
Somebody needs to make a movie on this.. this is horrific
tajayfoot1 wouldn’t make a good movie, no happy ending, no justice and it would bring light to the fact that the American government payed a man guilty of war crimes & to an extent crimes against humanity, rather than lock him up and put him on trial.
The inky Squid thats what would make it good lol. real life doesnt have happy endings
@@theinkysquid7661 agreed, I wouldn't want a movie made to entertain based on this shithead. There are some documentaries though that could use some updating and would be super insightful
Ash Ketchum yeah but then why is anyone going to put money into making a movie that’s most likely going to bomb due to it not being empowering, not being a typical war film where the good guys triumph, etc etc,I wouldn’t mind seeing a horror film kind of loosely based off of this, but we will never have a direct adaptation of this. Sad though, it’s a very interesting topic
They did it's called Men behind the sun
Love your channel ... Subscribed to your podcast too
What a nice and kindhearted chap .
The author of the manga My Hero Academia got in some pretty serious trouble a couple of months ago in China for naming one of his characters “Maruta”. Which is even more fucked because this character was a scientist who experimented on living and dead people to further his own scientific goals. Pretty on the nose
Never been a fan of super hero shows anyway
Actually he named him that because Maruta had another definition which means fat or round(I think) which is why he named him that and plus the author apologize and changed the name already. It wasn't his fault that the government's never educate their young people.
Because of that controversy I came to know about Japanese war Crimes so I am glad he did that
Just for naming? people need to stop being sensitive
I guess all characters named Josef are also genocidal scientists then, jesus christ the sensitivity is on another level.
A good follow up story would be one about Ryoichi Naito, a former member of unit 731 as well as the founder of the Japan green cross and their shady business practices in Japan and overseas after the war. Which infected many hemophiliacs with H.I.V. through tainted blood products.
So hard to not hate an entire country for the actions of a few
Very coo content never heard about this before very informative
Excellent doco as usual, but also as usual, what a bunch of unbelievable ***** we can be.
Marty Man stop talking bollocks
Germany had Josef Mengele and Japan had this bowl of vomit. I wonder who Stalin's sadistic scientist was .......he's bound to have had one.
the commies locked up the majority of there great minds and thinkers mathematicians and scientists because it was a threat to the communist regime
they actually put them separately to just normal prisoners
sure they still forced them to do work, but they sure as hell were not gonna credit them for it so finding names is gonna be practically impossible
Analyzing male slavery he is not making this stuff up it really did happen.
@@angeloluna529 yes, Beria is even featured on his own documentary on Biographies. He was indeed evil and begged for mercy with tears in his eyes just prior to him being shot. Thankfully he suffered at the end......he was a grossly evil man. He wasn't a scientist or doctor however.....mmm, I was referring to biological scientists like the monster featured in this video.
robert sollory ...all participants in a state of war have one...or several. Even the U.S.A., and Free Europe
Comrade Josef Stalin didn’t have a “Sadistic Scientist”, keep in mind, the USSR was not the one who paid these criminals. It was the US. The same country who gave many former SS officials positions in the West German government, and paid them for their crimes as well.
Thanks for letting us know
If there is already a movie about this man, somebody needs to make another one because I can't believe I've never heard of it.
If you want a more fleshed out version of this video there's a history channel documentary on youtube called - Nightmare in Manchuria. This video was great and is basically just a massive summary of that documentary with virtually the same points, frequent quotations, same stories, etc. Interesting to think that perhaps they could've used the bombs in tandem with their secret aircraft carrier submarine project if they surrendered even a year later
Dude I gotta give you credit for that Segway. That's a rough one to put together in a way that is sensitive to the topic and at the same time not being offensive in any way. You and your entire team deserve an Oscar for that one.
SEGWAY! LOL
@@famousbowl9926
Don’t mock the transport-Segways are still cool!
Segue
The photograph of Shiro Ishii in his later life used in this video is actually that of Hideki Tojo during the war.
Thanks. I learned something new.
A sharp mind turned from a tool into a weapon
One who turned willingly
He always enjoyed experimenting remember...
The sharpest tool in the shed
To quote a episode of Band of Brothers. 'Why we fight'. Pretty much sums it up.
this was Brilliant!
He's a real life conduit of nurgle
The plague father is so proud
HERESY?
He is the most evil scientist in history
Nah. Kyle Hill did a video about Clarence Lushbaugh and he did far more heinous experiments. At least Ishii didn't hide behind coward excuses like "God gave me permission".
Simon you did good on this mate this was top secret who ever knew you'd educate the future with this
It probably one 9f the best video i have seen on youtube
I feel like we know somebody was truly fucked up when Simon doesn't even come close to cracking one of his characteristic jokes.
Yeah. This video is dark
04:50 That's Tōjō Hideki, not the Emperor.
Shocked they missed that. I think he approaches Tojo anyways.
Can you do Ian Smith of Rhodesia or Ned Kelly.
Speechless.
Great Video but you mistakenly used the picture of Hideki Tojo a few times as you were talking about Shiro Ishii.
Jesus. He's the Japanese Mengele.
Roger Furlong No worse
This video just touched the surface of the experiments of unit731.Go and search the experiments conducted by shiro Ishii in detail,then you will realize the Mengele didn't even came close to him.Shiroo Ishii was way more worse than Mengele.
He's worse than Mengele
@@michaelnewton1332 Well, so did Mengele
Who? 🤨
What one human being does to another! Never ceases to amaze me!
Those words are a double edged sword yet true to the very end.
Stories of Unit 731 never get any easier to hear.
Best one I've ever seen I've never heard of this guy
I live in Oregon and I was always told in school that the balloon bombs that were sent over were fire bombs, not biological weapons.
Some of them were. The Japanese military thought setting forest fires on the West Coast would be a good distraction for US forces while they attempted an invasion of the West Coast. They sent some incendiary balloons over but the invasion part never came to fruition, fortunately.
It sounds like it was a mix of the 2 and it (thankfully) doesn't seem any of the bio-bombs went off.
Great video. should try and do some biographies on Philosophers, such as Nietzsche and Sartre. A biography on Franz Kafka would be awesome too
Great series this, I watch like years.
Man it's so crazy that this actually happened insane!
"if you want to have a go at me in the comments go right ahead"
too many people stand by the idea they have to be right. Thank you for your videos and admitting the ability of imperfection; hard to do these days. love your work.
2:32 That isn't Shiro Ishii. It's Prince Yasuhito.
This is the first ad I will actually use
The guy with the Preppie horn rims is Tojo Hideki, a wartime P.M. of Japan. I first heard of this in the 90s. Japan was quite clueless in conducting a war against the world then, but they detonated their atomic device 3 days before we lit up Hiroshima. They did their testing in Manchuria also.
As somebody that dabbles in microbiology I consider my mushrooms to be pets. I mean you have to give complete care to your cultures even if it is suspended in agar. Without me, the mycelium would die to the competition. And watching things like mushroom mycelium navigate through their grain jars gives the organism a certain level of sentience of its own.
Ah yes, "Unit 731," the crew that could give barbarian lessons to the Nazis. (Intelligence does not guarantee civilized behavior...even within the same race.) "Mudken"!? wasn't that "Mukden"?
Mukden it was.
Otokichi786 well. He learnt from them then surpassed them.
Otokichi786 weak and impressionable, you could say.
Props to Simon not using the ad music on this one. Smart man
Good video mate! You should hire all the experts on the comment sections of your videos to review them before posting them!