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.

Part of the research laboratory in which the Japanese army conducted lethal experiments on prisoners during the second Sino-Japanese war will be opened to the public next year.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...