Isamu Yokoyama

Isamu Yokoyama
Native name
横山勇
Born(1889-03-01)1 March 1889
Chiba Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Died21 April 1952(1952-04-21) (aged 63)
Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Occupied Japan
Allegiance Empire of Japan
Service / branch Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service1909–1945
Rank Lieutenant General
Battles / warsSecond Sino-Japanese War
World War II

Isamu Yokoyama (横山勇, Yokoyama Isamu, 1 March 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, commanding Japanese ground forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Pacific War. In 1948, he was sentenced to death by a military commission for Yokohama War Crimes Trials due to his direct command responsibility for vivisection and other human medical experiments performed at the Kyushu Imperial University on downed Allied airmen.