Isamu Yokoyama | |
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Native name | 横山勇 |
Born | Chiba Prefecture, Empire of Japan | 1 March 1889
Died | 21 April 1952 Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Occupied Japan | (aged 63)
Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
Service | Imperial Japanese Army |
Years of service | 1909–1945 |
Rank | Lieutenant General |
Battles / wars | Second 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.