 | 2003 Japan Chemical Weapon Incident: Japanese experts handle a bomb containing toxic gas in Shijiazhuang, central Hebei Province, Septemeber 12, 2003. The Japanese experts arrived on September 6 to dispose of 52 bombs which were found in 1991. One person died last month in Northeast China from mustard gas that leaked from canisters left behind from World War II by the Japanese Army and recently unearthed accidentally. click to open  |
 | 2003 Japan Chemical Weapon Incident: Japanese experts handle a bomb containing toxic gas in Shijiazhuang, central Hebei Province, September 12, 2003. The Japanese experts arrived on September 6 to dispose of 52 bombs which were found in 1991. One person died last month in Northeast China from mustard gas that leaked from canisters left behind from World War II by the Japanese Army and recently unearthed accidentally. click to open  |
 | 2003 Japan Chemical Weapon Incident: Japanese weapons experts examine a poison gas shell at Luquan in northern China's Hebei province Friday Sept. 12, 2003. Japanese and Chinese experts spent Friday dismantling some of a stockpile of 52 poison gas shells that were found in 1991. The shells are part of an estimated 700,000 artillery shells, bombs and other weapons loaded with chemical agents left in China after World War II. click to open  |
 | 2003 Japan Chemical Weapon Incident: Japanese and Chinese weapons experts prepare to examine poison gas shells in a pit at Luquan in northern China's Hebei province Friday Sept. 12, 2003. Japanese and Chinese experts spent Friday dismantling some of a stockpile of 52 poison gas shells that were found in 1991. The shells are part of an estimated 700,000 artillery shells, bombs and other weapons loaded with chemical agents left in China after World War II. click to open  |
 | 2003 Japan Chemical Weapon Incident: A chemical weapons expert prepares to enter a site in China's Heilongjiang province to examine Japanese World War II-era chemical shells click to open  |
 | 2003 Japan Chemical Weapon Incident: Chinese weapons experts put on protective clothing before trying to dismantle World War II era Japanese chemical weapons on Aug 22nd 2003. A Chinese man contaminated by a mustard gas shell left by retreating Japanese soldiers during the war has died from massive burns click to open  |