I was reading in the Vets Corner yesterday about the Unit 731 atrocities. I finished wondering if the current flu crisis could be leftovers from WW2.
Just a few weeks ago the poison gas plant left there by the Japanese Army was finally located. People who think there's no WMD in Iraq because we haven't found it yet should note this well ~ the Chicoms have been looking for this stuff since 1950 and just now found one plant.
Odds are someone was poking around in the Harbin watershed and churned up some other kind of WMD; I'm thinking it was probably a degraded atom bomb or two, or maybe some enriched uranium that'd burned through it's containers, and it got loose into the local water table.
There's a thousand reasons here for the Chinese to want to save face (although this wasn't their fault), so they came up with the benzene story ~ and maybe even let loose a bunch of it as a cover.