Japan's doctors of death.(Reviews)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | September 1, 2004| | Copyright

A Plague Upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operation. Daniel Barenblatt. Souvenir Press. [pounds sterling]18.99. XXV + 260 pages. ISBN 0-285-63693-6.

The name of Dr Joseph Mengele, the chief doctor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, who was responsible for unnumbered deaths, through his 'medical experiments', is well known in the history of National Socialism's war crimes. Yet, who today has ever heard of the likes of Dr Shiro Ishii, Dr Hisato Yoshimura, or Dr Tachimaru Ishikawa, who, with hundreds of medics, nurses and research ...

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