Report On Japan’s Wartime Use of Nerve Agents

Tokyo: The existence of a detailed report documenting the use of chemical weapons by the Imperial Japanese Army in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War has been confirmed for the first time, a Japanese historian has said. The official report, compiled by a frontline nerve gas battalion of the Japanese Army posted in northern China, recorded that the unit used munitions containing a blister agent and a sternutatory agent in 1939 during the War, Kyodo News Agency quoted historian Seiya Matsuno as saying on Sunday. The blister agent inflamed the skin and mucous membranes, and the sternutatory agent caused extreme pain in the respiratory system. (IANS)

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