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...have made at least six appeals to county and city authorities. Some officials offered help but never gave it; others ignored them. Hoping the provincial government might act even if local officials wouldn't, Su traveled 11 hours by bus in July to the Heilong-jiang provincial capital of Harbin and filed a complaint with the Land Natural Resources Department. The province referred the matter back to the county...
...fleas scattered over Hunan by Japanese warplanes were perhaps the world's most pampered vermin, raised by the imperial army's Epidemic Prevention and Water-Supply Unit, better known as Unit 731. Today the ruins of its headquarters, located outside the Manchurian city of Harbin, stand next to a village schoolyard. Chatter from the nearby basketball court wafts past an unpainted wooden shed with a shabby metal roof that covers 96 cement pits, each a meter square. Here, 60 years ago, Japanese doctors infected yellow rats with the plague and dropped them into flea-filled oil drums. Workers then loaded...
...experiments on people in China. The decision will embarrass the Japanese government, which for many years denied the existence of such experiments. Nonetheless, the Tokyo district court rejected claims for compensation from 180 Chinese plaintiffs who said relatives were killed by Unit 731 of the Japanese army based near Harbin in northern China. The court ruled that all issues of compensation were settled in postwar treaties. U.S. War Talk In a speech in Nashville, Tennessee before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney pressed the Bush Administration's case for a war with Iraq. Cheney said that...
...White Russians arrived first. The disintegration of their homeland forced many to flee to Harbin, in northern China, and then on to Shanghai. Some, such as Admiral Stark and his sailors, took their battle fleets, sailed south and parked themselves opposite the Bund, commanding attention by their numbers and the size of their guns...
...months later, again pretending to be buyers, the two followed a trail of tiger and bear parts from Vladivostok, Russia, to Harbin, China. Using a camera concealed in the buttonhole of a gaudy sport jacket, Galster had the pleasure of videotaping the bandits as they told him they had to be careful because they had read about an American man and Chinese woman who had busted a rhino-horn ring in Wuchuan...