A total of 198 pictures and historical charts on Japan's chemical war crimes were put on show Thursday in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.

The exhibition, located at a memorial for victimized people killed in the bloody massacre in December 1939.

Divided into six parts, the exhibition put the pictures on the chemical weapons leak this year on Aug. 4 in Qiqihaer city of northeast China in the priority, reminding visitors never to forget the history of the aggression by Japanese militarism.

During World War II, and even in the post-war period, the toxic chemical weapons made by Japan have brought untold sufferings to the lives of Chinese people and great havocs to their living environment, said Zhu Chengshan, curator of the memorial.

Exhibition materials show that in the eight-year war of Japanese aggression against China from 1937-1945, the Japanese intruding troops used chemical weapons more than 2,000 times, withthe casualties among Chinese soldiers and common people reaching nearly 100,000.
 
(Xinhua News Agency September 19, 2003)