European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page a the stars and stripes . Covered up Japan Wii Gas use report says Chicago a Japan operated a secret chemical weapons factory during world War ii bombed China with Poison Gas grenades and tested Poison on prisoners of War including americans a new report charges. The report in the october Issue of the Chicago based bulletin of the atomic scientists also contends the . Government knew about Japan s use of Chemi Cal weapon but failed to prosecute japanese officers at the Toiyo War crimes tribunal in 1946. The report s author Vuki Tanaka speculated that the . Government decided against prosecuting be cause it wanted to learn from Japan s knowledge of bacteriological warfare. The use of chemical weapons by the Jan est was covered up by the . Government Tanaka said sat urday in a Telephone interview from his Home in austra Lia. Tanaka a lecturer in japanese at the University of Adelaide in Australia Drew on newly discovered Japa Nese War documents his own interviews and previously published material to piece together the account said Len Armand the bulletin s editor. I think whal you have Here is the first full Story of Japan s Poison Gas Enterprise and its grim results both on the chinese and on the japanese workers he said Friday Tanasca said his research was prompted partly by the japanese government s longtime insistence that it never used chemical weapons in world War ii. Tanaka declared that Japan built a factory for chem ical weapons on Oku Noshima one of dozens of tiny islands in the Inland sea. To help keep the factory secret the japanese government erased the Island from maps in 1939, Tanaka contends. The report said the factory operated from 1929 until the end of the War when it was destroyed at the direction of Allied officers. The Plant manufactured a variety of chemicals including Mustard Gas lewisite nausea Gas and Hydro Yanic acid Gas for use against China according to Tanaka s report. Neither the japanese nor . Government would respond to the report in the bulletin a monthly mag Azine founded in 1945 and supported by scientists concerned about the implications of nuclear weapons development. Atrocities committed during the japanese invasion of China which began shortly before world War ii have Long been a source of controversy Between the two countries. Chinese army records allege that at least 2,000 chinese were killed and 35,000 inured by Japa Nese chemical weapons. Tanaka s report said. Tanaka wrote that in 1983, researchers from Keio University obtained a two volume report on Japan s experiments with bacteriological and chemical weapons on chinese. Soviet american and polish prisoner in the Early 1940s. The article gave no detail on the tests on americans but said chinese were subjected to Mustard Gas at tacks. It quoted research notes on the resulting damage to heir skin. In his article Tanaka contends that . Col. Thom As Morrow a Law officer assigned to investigate Japa Nese War erics uncovered evidence of Japan s use of chemical weapons and wrote two reports about it. But Tanaka said Morrow was summoned Home abruptly from Tokyo in the Early stages of the War crimes trials and the Issue was dropped possibly because the . Government was interested in keeping information relating to biological and chemical War fare for its own use. Bestsellers sunday september 13,198s Campaign 88 y it now Yort Tim fiction 1the Cardinal of the Kremlin try Tom Muncy a till is meet Aoah by Juth Trinu i Alaska by Jam a Kcf wow 4tilt born the of 1h vanities of Tom vows doctors b. 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