Chinese victims suffering from exposure to chemical weapons left by Japanese troops during World War II on Saturday urged the Japanese government to apologize and provide living and medical support for the victims.
A group of Chinese chemical weapons victims from Qiqihar and some Japanese victims suffering from chemical leak accident in Ibaraki Prefecture met in Tokyo to call for the government to properly handle the issue.
The Chinese victims, along with their lawyers, arrived in Tokyo on July 29 for an 11-day tour to carry out a series of negotiations with the Japanese government for proper treatment on the issue.
The chemical weapons were discovered in August 2003 at a construction site in Qiqihar in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
One of them was broken, causing an oil-like substance to leak out into the soil. The accident killed one people and injured 43 others.
After rounds of negotiations between Chinese and Japanese governments, the Japan side agreed to pay for 300 million yen, or about 2.68 million US dollars, to deal with the abandoned chemical weapons issue.
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