
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, August 17, 1993                   TAG: 9308170073
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: TOKYO                                LENGTH: Short

JAPAN USED BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS IN THE 1940S

A group of scholars reported that they uncovered official government records which indicate that the Japanese Imperial Army used biological weapons in China during the early 1940s and considered using them in other areas toward the end of World War II.

The documents indicate that one biological weapons attack backfired, killing 1,700 Japanese soldiers.

- Asahi News Service

by CNB