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Japanese Veteran Helps Retrieve CW Left in China
A Japanese World War II veteran returned to northeast China yesterday to help locate chemical weapons abandoned by Japan before the end of the conflict, the Xinhua News Agency reported (see GSN, Dec. 5, 2005). Yoshida Isao, 81, was ordered to dump the weapons in 1945 before the Japanese surrender. “We were ordered to throw the gas bombs into water wells. After I returned to Japan, I led a normal life, but I could not forget the sounds of the bombs when we threw them into the wells,” Isao said. “The sounds have been beating in my heart. I repent what I have done. I feel I have done wrong to the Chinese people,” he said. “I wrote a letter to the Japanese media telling the public that there are still gas bombs left in China. I hope the Japanese government will take action to deal with the matter,” he added. “I've just now heard that most wells have been filled in. What worries me most is that the bombs will bring more trouble to the locals. I don't want to see mishaps that might injure civilians again if they were to accidentally dig up the bombs in Heilongjiang,” Isao concluded (Xinhua, March 20).
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