Japan to dispose of abandoned chemical weapons in China with new facility  

日媒稱日方將啟用新設施處理在華“遺棄化武”

據日本《經濟新聞》26日報道，日本政府為安全處理日軍遺留在中國的遺棄化學武器，計劃于年內啟動在中國東北新建的處理設施。報道稱，該設施啟用后，日本在華化學炮彈等的處理能力將提升至目前的2倍，達到每年2.4萬枚，同時還將討論2～3年后增加處理設施。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) – The Japanese government is scheduled to operate a new facility in China for disposing chemical weapons abandoned by the former Imperial Japanese Army during World War Ⅱ, according to cn.nikkei.com, the Chinese-language website of Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

Reports have said that some 300,000 to 400,000 sulfur mustard and asphyxiant gas bombs are still buried in Chinese cities.

The new facility, established in northeast china, can reportedly dispose of 24,000 pieces of chemical ammunition, doubling the number that existing facilities can handle currently.

According to the Japanese Cabinet Office, its government may add two or three such facilities in China in a few years.

Based on the Chemical Weapons Convention which came into effect in 1997, Japan is obliged to dispose of chemical weapons its army left in China. It has collected 50,000 pieces of ammunition in Nanjing and Shijiazhuang since 2000, of which some 40,000 have been disposed of already.