EXPERTS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN, AT ODDS OVER A SERIES OF DISPUTES SPRINGING FROM JAPAN'S WARTIME OCCUPATION, HAVE BEGUN EXCAVATING CHEMICAL WEAPONS LEFT BEHIND BY RETREATING JAPANESE FORCES, REUTERS REPORTED. THIRTY-ONE JAPANESE BOMBS, SEVEN OF THEM CONTAINING CHEMICALS, WERE RECOVERED ON WEDNESDAY IN NORTHEASTERN NING'AN CITY, HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE, LIU YIREN, DIRECTOR OF THE JAPANESE ABANDONED CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN CHINA, TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE. EXPERTS WERE AGAIN USING METAL DETECTORS ON THURSDAY TO LOCATE MORE THAN 100 BOMBS NEAR A MIDDLE SCHOOL IN NING'AN, WHERE SHELLS WITH TOXIC CHEMICALS WERE DISCOVERED IN 2004.
