• Lactobacillus casei strain shirota

People

• Yuu Shirota (or Shirota Yuu, 城田優), Japanese actor and singer
• Minoru Shirota
  Minoru Shirota
  was the inventor of Yakult, the yogurt-like probiotic drink containing Lactobacillus casei strain shirota.In 1930, Dr. Minoru Shirota, working in a microbiology lab at Kyoto Imperial University's School of Medicine, became the first in the world to succeed in culturing a strain of lactic acid...
  
  (代田稔 April 23, 1899 - March 10, 1982) invented Yakult, the yogurt-like probiotic drink containing Lactobacillus casei strain shirota