Malachi151
30th September 2003, 05:08 AM
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/29/1064819874060.html
An orgy involving 400 Japanese tourists and 500 Chinese prostitutes on the anniversary of Japan's 1931 invasion of China has triggered a growing row between the two countries.
Anti-Japanese feelings are running high in China as news spread of the sex romp at a luxury hotel in Zhuhai, a coastal town near the southern city of Guangdong.
Outraged Chinese official media reported that the Japanese male tourists - aged between 16 and 37 - engaged in a three-day orgy beginning on September 16, with about 500 local prostitutes.
A police spokeswoman for Guangdong province said some suspects had been detained. "We don't know if they include Japanese tourists," she said on Monday.
Responding to the growing anger, the Chinese Government has suggested the Japanese Government teach its people how to behave. "This case is of an extremely odious nature," said Kong Quan, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry. "Foreign citizens in China must abide by Chinese laws. We hope the Japanese Government will improve their citizens' education about this."
The Beijing Youth Daily reported that the men flew into the city and booked into the Zhuhai International Convention Centre Hotel purely for sex.
Shocked hotel guests reported lurid scenes on the night of September 16, when the prostitutes arrived. In the lobby, the Japanese tourists were hugging and grabbing the women, while others groped them in the elevators on the way up to rooms.
The Youth Daily said that when one of the Japanese men was asked why they were in Zhuhai, he replied: "We have come to play with Chinese girls!"
But many Chinese suspect a motive other than sex. They claimed via internet chatrooms that the men chose the date of the orgy - the anniversary of the Mukden Incident, which led to imperial Japan's invasion of China. "The Japanese are animals," said one contribution to a chatroom. "They deliberately selected the date to humiliate the Chinese people."
An orgy involving 400 Japanese tourists and 500 Chinese prostitutes on the anniversary of Japan's 1931 invasion of China has triggered a growing row between the two countries.
Anti-Japanese feelings are running high in China as news spread of the sex romp at a luxury hotel in Zhuhai, a coastal town near the southern city of Guangdong.
Outraged Chinese official media reported that the Japanese male tourists - aged between 16 and 37 - engaged in a three-day orgy beginning on September 16, with about 500 local prostitutes.
A police spokeswoman for Guangdong province said some suspects had been detained. "We don't know if they include Japanese tourists," she said on Monday.
Responding to the growing anger, the Chinese Government has suggested the Japanese Government teach its people how to behave. "This case is of an extremely odious nature," said Kong Quan, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry. "Foreign citizens in China must abide by Chinese laws. We hope the Japanese Government will improve their citizens' education about this."
The Beijing Youth Daily reported that the men flew into the city and booked into the Zhuhai International Convention Centre Hotel purely for sex.
Shocked hotel guests reported lurid scenes on the night of September 16, when the prostitutes arrived. In the lobby, the Japanese tourists were hugging and grabbing the women, while others groped them in the elevators on the way up to rooms.
The Youth Daily said that when one of the Japanese men was asked why they were in Zhuhai, he replied: "We have come to play with Chinese girls!"
But many Chinese suspect a motive other than sex. They claimed via internet chatrooms that the men chose the date of the orgy - the anniversary of the Mukden Incident, which led to imperial Japan's invasion of China. "The Japanese are animals," said one contribution to a chatroom. "They deliberately selected the date to humiliate the Chinese people."