Historian says it is the first discovery of a report in which the Japanese army itself details the use of poison gases during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

During both the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Second World War, the six square kilometer complex served as a Japanese research and development unit for biological and chemical weapons.

Thus, China moving back the Sino-Japanese War’s start date by six years is less intended to fan nationalism domestically than it is meant to alleviate fear over China’s rise internationally.

The second in a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals published online features one by Ken Yuasa, who was born in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan in 1916.

The discard of the chemical weapons in China was one of the serious crimes the Japanese militarists committed during the War of Aggression against China. This problem needs to be resolved promptly.

On this day in 1938, the Yellow River experienced a major flood during the Second Sino-Japanese War when the Chinese Nationalist government deliberately destroyed the dikes along the river to halt ...

1914 to 1918 – First world war Chemical weapons ... Sino-Japanese war Japan is believed to have used chemical weapons extensively ... Second world war Despite possessing substantial stocks of ...

Japanese infantrymen advance with rifles and grenades, leaping over barbed wire and preceded by an artillery barrage, in the Peking sector in China on Aug. 19, 1937, during the Second Sino ...

Editor’s Note: Please also see Kyle’s recent articles including Five Chinese Weapons of War America Should Fear and The Five Most-Powerful Navies on the Planet. Sino-Japanese relations have ...

TOKYO, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- A detailed report documenting how chemical weapons were used by the Japanese Army in China during World War II was published here Monday, the first discovery of a report in ...