Museum highlights germ warfare

A new museum in Harbin that explores the Japanese army's notorious human experiments in the development of germ warfare in China during World War II has opened to the public.

The Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by Japanese Army Unit 731 examines the top-secret biological and chemical warfare research base, established in 1935 as the center of Japan's biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia.

"According to the precious historical materials we found, at least 3,000 people, mostly Chinese civilians, died in the experiments between 1939 and 1945," said Jin Chengmin, curator of the exhibition hall.