this is weird. Was reading something off some piece of news. Awared that some countries did took their POWs for some experiments which you might have some mutated being in some parts of the country. Oh are we expecting X-mens? i've to say this is against geneva convention. but who cares at that point of time. i have weapons. i won the war. i own the land. perhaps that's the mindset of the warlords then.

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 China has demanded Japan take responsibility for the actions of its military in World War II after a Tokyo court rejected damages for Chinese victims of a notorious germ warfare unit.

 "Germ warfare is one of the serious crimes committed by the Japanese militarism during World War II. The Japanese government should hold an honest attitude to bear the responsibilty," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

"It should sincerely deal with the reasonable demands of the victims and properly handle this issue."

The Tokyo High Court Tuesday upheld a 2002 lower court decision that recognized wrongdoing by imperial Japan but said any compensation had to be paid by the government. The lawsuit was brought by 180 Chinese who said they were survivors or relatives of the victims of Unit 731, which conducted human experiments and bombed cities with the plague, cholera and other germs. The plaintiffs, who were in Zhejiang and Hunan provinces from 1940 to 1942, had demanded the court order the government to apologize and grant them each 10 million yen (90,000 dollars) in compensation.

The ruling was no surprise. In April, the same court rejected a separate compensation lawsuit filed by victims of Unit 731 together with survivors of the 1937 massacre in the city of Nanjing. China accuses Japan of whitewashing its past, pointing to the approval in April of a textbook that makes little mention of wartime atrocities. The book sparked three weekends of major anti-Japanese demonstrations in China, which has said relations were at a three-decade low because of the history issue.

In an editorial, the state-run China Daily accused the court of "forgiving criminals", but said it "did not come as a surprise given that tensions are running high between the two countries". "Unit 731 perpetrated the most shocking, heinous, cruel crime the civilized world has ever known -- it used human beings for vivisection to develop biological weapons," it said.

When Chinese nationals request war reparations from the Japanese government, they ask for justice. "History is a heavy page Japan will not be able to turn over if the country refuses to face it squarely," the China Daily said.

The Japanese government denied the existence of Unit 731 until 1998, when the Supreme Court indirectly acknowledged it by ruling that there was an academic consensus that it existed. At the same time, the government says it knows nothing about specific wrongdoing by the unit, which was disguised as a water purification bureau, and has rejected related damages claims. Lawyers for the Chinese plaintiffs have said they will appeal to the Supreme Court by the end of the week. - AFP