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Japanese Germ Warfare

Chinese people are still suffering from the most gruesome biological warfare attacks in modern history. Judith Miller looks at Japan’s “forgotten” biological crimes against China.
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Chinese people are still suffering from the most gruesome biological warfare attacks in modern history. Judith Miller looks at Japan’s “forgotten” biological crimes against China. The only documented mass use of germ weapons in modern times took place between 1932 and 1945 and “only recently has a resurgent China begun to remind Japan—and the world—of the atrocities.” Miller reports on calls for an end to the historical amnesia and help for the surviving victims.

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