Staff writer
Although she had lived in Japan for years, Wang Xuan, 45, had never talked with Japanese people about World War II -- to say nothing of what she heard from her father about the nation's wartime atrocities in China.
But Wang, a former English teacher now representing 108 Chinese victims and relatives of victims of Japan's germ warfare, took the stand Monday at the Tokyo District Court to call for Japan to squarely face its dark past.