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

日媒称日方将启用新设施处理在华“遗弃化武”

据日本《经济新闻》26日报道，日本政府为安全处理日军遗留在中国的遗弃化学武器，计划于年内启动在中国东北新建的处理设施。报道称，该设施启用后，日本在华化学炮弹等的处理能力将提升至目前的2倍，达到每年2.4万枚，同时还将讨论2～3年后增加处理设施。 [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.