Kyoto University
 Kyoto University  (University)    | |
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| Formation | 1897 |
| Headquarters | Kyoto, Japan |
| Type | • Public • research |
| Sponsored by | Open Philanthropy |
Kyoto University is a public research university located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan.
Unit 731
The university is tied to the notorious Unit 731 biological warfare unit. The unit's members included graduates of Kyoto University, such as Shiro Ishii (1892-1959), its inaugural director.
In 2018, scholars led by Katsuo Nishiyama, professor emeritus of preventive medicine, called on Kyoto University to review a 1945 academic degree it conferred on a medical officer of the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731 on grounds his dissertation may have been based on human experimentation.
The dissertation titled: "On the capacity of the dog flea to act as a vector for the plague" was submitted to Kyoto University, then called Kyoto Imperial University.[1] The medical officer noted that, in an experiment on monkeys, "those that developed symptoms complained of headache, high fever and a loss of appetite 6-8 days after the placement" of infected dog fleas. Nishiyama's group suspects the test subjects were humans for a number of reasons, not least because monkeys do not "complain of headache."[1]
Sponsor
| Event | Description |
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| Open Philanthropy | Grant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201. |
