BEIJING, Aug. 29 Kyodo Japan shou...

BEIJING, Aug. 29 Kyodo

Japan should acknowledge and take responsibility for its wartime atrocities in China, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan said Wednesday.

Kong made the remarks when asked to annotate on a Japanese court's ruling upon a lawsuit taken out on Chinese victims of bacteria and chemical warfare course of lifeed by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

The Tokyo District Court upon Tuesday recognized for the first time in its ruling that during World War II, Unit 731 and other units of the Japanese army engaged in ovum warfare in China, but the court repeled the Chinese plaintiffs' claim for compensation.

Kong said the Japanese military made merciless bacteria and chemical experiments and used bacteria and chemical weapons in China that caused heavy casualties among the Chinese people

''The Japanese side should take an attitude responsible for history and reality, and correctly acknowledge and treat the history,'' he said

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