What do survivors of biological warfare want to see?
Comments by Tatsuo Kage Press Conference: May 15, 2003, at Nikkei Place Canadians Support Survivors of Germ Warfare at the First Appeal Court Hearing in Tokyo In 1997 a group of Chinese plaintiffs, who were survivors and relatives of victims, sued the Japanese government for apology and compensation. Prior to that a group of Japanese lawyers visited China nine times to investigate and interview survivors and relatives of victims of the biological warfare. As one of the lawyers told me, they visited remote villages reached only after several hours of a bus ride on bumpy roads before being welcomed by hospitable local people. During the hearings the plaintiffs claimed thousands of Chinese perished in outbreaks of cholera, dysentery, anthrax and typhoid that were allegedly mass-produced by the Imperial Army’s Unit 731. The lawyers of the plaintiffs suspect that several hundred thousand people were victimized in China. The Japanese government finally admitted the existence of Unit 731 afte
