今天在new york times看到了关于这件事的报道...
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China Angered by Reported Orgy Involving Japanese Tourists
By JOSEPH KAHN

Published: September 30, 2003


EIJING, Sept. 29 ?The police said today that they had detained half a dozen people in connection with assertions that hundreds of Japanese tourists had hired similar numbers of local prostitutes and staged a public display of promiscuity on a sensitive anniversary in Sino-Japanese relations.

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Details of the reported three-day sex romp at a luxury hotel in the southern city of Zhuhai remained sketchy, but that did not diminish an outpouring of invective against Japan on China's Internet chat sites or unusually racy articles in the state-controlled press.

The incident has further embittered relations between China and Japan, which were already strained this month when Chinese construction workers stumbled upon a cache of mustard gas that Japan had left behind after its World War II-era occupation. One man died and several others were badly burned in the accident. Japan apologized.

Beijing and Tokyo have also been throwing sharp elbows in an effort to secure access to Russian oil, pushing competing proposals for the construction of a pipeline they both see as crucial to meeting their demands.

The city of Zhuhai, like some others along China's borders with Hong Kong and Macau, is well known for attracting Chinese and Western sex tourists. But the incident involving a group of 400 Japanese visitors and as many as 500 local prostitutes prompted national outrage because of the scale and the timing.

Chinese newspapers reported over the weekend that the male tourists, some as young as 16, hired prostitutes at local nightclubs and brought them back in groups to the Zhuhai International Conference Center Hotel. Chinese guests staying at the hotel were quoted as saying that the Japanese men groped the prostitutes in the lobby and on elevators, and that guest floors overflowed with scenes of carnality and drunkenness.

The incident took place Sept. 16 to 18, according to the local press. The latter date is the day that China records as the start of the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931.

It is unclear why reports about the sex scandal did not emerge until this past weekend, more than a week after it was said to have occurred.

Even allowing what is likely to be exaggeration in the news media, which rarely miss an opportunity to express China's anger about Japan's historical atrocities, officials say they are taking the incident seriously. The police in Zhuhai and the province of Guangdong said they had begun an investigation, and the hotel was temporarily closed.

A police spokeswoman said tonight that five or six people had been detained in connection with the matter, but declined to specify nationalities.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Kong Quan, today called the incident odious. "Foreigners coming to China must comply with Chinese law," he said. "We hope the Japanese government will enhance the education of its people in that respect."

Japanese officials said they had not confirmed the details as reported in the Chinese press. But the deputy chief cabinet secretary, Masaaki Yamasaki, said at a news conference that Japanese should be careful to obey foreign laws when abroad.

Chinese Web sites, which are closely monitored by the authorities and censored if their content is deemed unacceptable, were full of indignation. Sohu.net conducted an online survey that attracted 85,000 responses. Nearly 90 percent said the Japanese had conducted the sex tour to humiliate China on what Chinese already call their national day of humiliation, Sept. 18.

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