Japan used chemical weapons in war against China and now there’s a military report to prove it, historian says

The existence of a detailed report documenting the use of chemical weapons by the Imperial Japanese Army in China has been confirmed for the first time, a Japanese historian said Sunday.The official report, compiled by a frontline nerve gas battalion of the Japanese army posted in northern China, recorded that the unit used munitions containing a blister agent and a sternutatory agent in 1939 during the Second Sino-Japanese War, according to historian Seiya Matsuno.The blister agent inflamed…