The Japanese Cabinet announced on October 7 that from October 12 to November 23 it would, in cooperation with the Chinese government, dig up and recover the chemical weapons abandoned by Japanese army at the end of World War II in Dunhua city, northeast China's Jilin Province.

The Cabinet will send an official to China on October 11 to discuss the matter with the Chinese side.

On July 23 last year, a chemical weapon accident happened in the city when four bathing children discovered a shell in a river and two of them were poisoned by the leaking liquid. Their hands and feet became flared.

A Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman later admitted that the injury was caused by chemical weapons left behind by Japanese troops.

By People's Daily Online