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Japanese Officials Arrive in China to Remove Weapons
Japanese scientists and Foreign Ministry officials arrived in southern China today to remove World War II-era chemical weapons found in the city of Guangzhou, Agence France-Presse reported today (see GSN, June 28). Three city residents inhaled gas from the munitions, the Chinese government said. A Japanese Cabinet Office official said the 25-person delegation is expected to work with Chinese officials until Sunday to deal with the weapons, according to AFP. “We have so far found at least seven shells believed to be chemical weapons abandoned by the wartime Japanese army near a river bank,” the official said. “We will remove all the weapons that belonged to the Imperial Japanese Army” (Agence France-Presse, July 19). Meanwhile, the Tokyo High Court today ruled that reparations would not be paid to survivors or relatives of victims of Japanese World War II germ warfare experiments in China involving pathogens such as plague and cholera, AFP reported. The 180 plaintiffs in the lawsuit had asked the Japanese government for an apology and $90,000 each. The court recognized the harm caused by the experiments but said it was up to the government to offer compensation (Agence France-Presse II/Yahoo!News, July 19).
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