JAPAN admitted last week that 15 000 old shells discovered on a building site
in Nanjing, China, in February are chemical weapons that it left behind after
the Second World War. They bring to two million the number of Japanese drums and
munitions filled with chemical agents such as mustard gas that China says it has
found.
Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, Japan must destroy all its lefover
weapons by 2007. But China says Japan is “lagging behind”. Li Yongwu, head of
the Chinese delegation, said at a CWC meeting in The Hague last week that old
Japanese chemical weapons…
