Yes. The Japs used anthrax and other types of germ warfare in China and other countries. Some of the cultures they released are still active. There was a show about this on the History Channel.
Fascinating...I don't believe that this is very widely known. Although of course when it comes to Japan's involvement in WW2 it seems that all we in the USA hear about these days is what awful people WE are for the internment camps and for the A-Bombs....we generally don't hear much else about Japan from that era.
I am guessing that unlike the numerous (Leftist) organizations and Governmental bodies both here in the USA and in Europe that take great pains at every possible opportunity to paint America as the quintessential warcrime nation for our dropping of the A-bombs and those rather plush camps, that there are no similar organizations in Japan or elsewhere that castigate the Japanese for the germ warfare that you mention as well as innumerable other atrocities.
From the article:
"The Japanese murdered 30million civilians while "liberating" what it called the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere from colonial rule. About 23million of these were ethnic Chinese.
"It's a crime that in sheer numbers is far greater than the Nazi Holocaust. In Germany, Holocaust denial is a crime. In Japan, it is government policy. But the evidence against the navy – precious little of which you will find in Japan itself – is damning."
The geographical breadth of the navy's crimes, the heinous nature of the acts themselves and the sadistic behaviour of the officers and men concerned are almost unimaginable.
“The Japs used anthrax and other types of germ warfare in China and other countries. Some of the cultures they released are still active.”
IIRC, one of those is a particularly nasty strain of cholera that is now indigenous to an area of N.E. China.
Yep, The intact and fragments of ceramic shell casings are in the big military museum in BeiJing.