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.
He was the second commander of Unit 731, a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.[1][2][3]
^Eckart, Wolfgang Uwe (2006). Man, Medicine, and the State: The Human Body as an Object of Government Sponsored Medical Research in the 20th Century. Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 182. ISBN 978-3-515-08794-0.
^MacLeod, Roy M. (1999). Science and the Pacific War: Science and Survival in the Pacific, 1939–1945. Vol. 207. Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 258. ISBN 0-7923-5851-1.
^Barnighausen, Till (2010). "4. Data generated in Japan's biowarfare experiments on human victims in China, 1932 – 1945, and the ethics of using them". In Nie, Jing Bao; Guo, Nanyan; Selden, Mark; Kleinman, Arthur (eds.). Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics. Routledge. pp. 82–91. ISBN 978-0-203-84904-0.
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