2026.04.21 22:01 GMT+8

Unhealed Wounds: The living evidence of Japan's germ warfare in China

Updated 2026.04.21 22:01 GMT+8
CGTN

In Dachen Village, east China's Zhejiang Province, survivors of Japanese germ warfare still struggle with the lasting effects of "rotting leg disease." Years of pain, infection and amputations have forced many victims to exist in isolation, while the disease has almost wiped out some families. More than 80 years on, these unhealed wounds bear witness to a wartime atrocity whose impact has never faded.

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