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Extreme clean-up commences Japan was to start digging up and disposing of abandoned wartime chemical weapons buried in Dunhua, Jilin province, in northeastern China on Oct. 12 in cooperation with the Chinese government, the Cabinet Office said Oct. 7. The disposal project is scheduled to end Nov. 23. Takeshi Erikawa, vice minister for the Cabinet Office, planned to visit China for five days from Oct. 11 to discuss the disposal of weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army during the war and to visit the sites where Japan plans to build two chemical weapon disposal facilities. Most of the estimated 700,000 shells left in China are believed buried in the province. Leftover chemical weapons injured two children in Dunhua in July 2004 and three people in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, last June. In Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province, gas leaked from leftover Japanese chemical weapons, killing one resident and injuring 43 others in August 2003.
The Japan Times Weekly: Oct. 15, 2005 |
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