Chinese Find 8 Japanese Bombs in Northeastern City
Police out hanging out in northeastern China, doing what police do when they hang out, came upon eight bombs that apparently had been abandoned by Japanese troops during WWI.
The bombs were "seriously eroded, without fuses, but still dangerous."
The discovery also led to the question: How many more bombs are there that have not been discovered…here and everywhere else in China?
Japan, which controlled northeast China (Manchuria) for about a decade until its wartime defeat, says its army left about 700,000 chemical weapons, MOSTLY, in the region.
MOSTLY!? What other regions were they left in?
A sore spot between Beijing and Tokyo, China estimates that some 2,000 people have been killed by the bombs since 1945.
In 2003, one construction worker was killed and 43 injured when they dug into a buried barrel of abandoned poison.
Perhaps the Japanese should be given responsibility for finding the bombs. No?
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