Tokyo's High Court has rejected an appeal for compensation by 10 Chinese survivors of Japanese germ warfare experiments during World War II.
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The decision may stoke tensions between China and Japan – already at their lowest point in years.
China has called for a site where such experiments were conducted to be given UN world heritage status.
The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged both nations to defuse their growing crisis.
Tensions between Japan and China began to mount earlier this month, when Tokyo approved a set of controversial history textbooks, which critics say whitewashed its wartime record.
