Japan Criticized for Pace of Weapons Cleanup
A Chinese official accused Japan of moving too slowly in disposing of its chemical weapons left in China after World War II, as experts began unearthing a cache near a school in the northeastern town of Ningan.
Chinese and Japanese experts in protective suits removed artillery shells and bombs filled with poisonous gas from a shallow pit about 200 yards from the junior high, where students played in an exercise yard.
The shells had been buried in the town near the Russian border after a factory received them as scrap metal.
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