Chinese Ire Ahead of Japanese Visit

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BEIJING (Reuters) - A visit by a top Japanese official, aimed at tackling North Korea's nuclear ambitions, was overshadowed Saturday by lingering Chinese resentment about Japan's military past.

Calling on Japan to "shoulder responsibility and obligations for losses on the Chinese side" in World War II, China's Foreign Ministry said Saturday it complained to Japan that 30 Chinese were poisoned by chemical weapons abandoned by Japan after the war.

The victims fell ill after chemical weapons were unearthed at a construction site in the northeastern city of Qiqihaer on August 4, Zhuang Shuqian, a local propaganda official, said.

Japan has been criticized and faces lawsuits over its abandonment of an estimated 700,000 chemical weapons in China.

Meanwhile, a Web site was suspended Friday after it collected what it said were more than 80,000 signatures calling on China not to buy Japanese technology for a planned $20 billion train linking Beijing and Shanghai.

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[Art_from_Ark]

1. When are the Chinese going to own up to their invasion

of Tibet? Of the atrocities that were committed during the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward? Of the massacre at Tienneman Square?

[FarLeftRage]

2. Exactly!!

get china out of Tibet...NOW!!