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Japanese sex jaunt sparks Chinese fury - Ryann Connell, Dec. 22, 2003
Claims that over 400 men from an Osaka-based construction company hired hundreds of Chinese prostitutes to carry out a three-day orgy timed to coincide with the September anniversary of Japan's 1931 invasion of China highlighted continued public flogging of Japan this year.
Outrage greeted the news that hundreds had been taken in by the police in the wake of the sordid marathon at the Zuhai International Convention Center that ended on Sept. 18.
Anti-Japanese sentiment always bubbling near the surface in China was already high over the Tokyo High Court's decision at about the same time the hotel story broke to compensate some Chinese citizens over a poisonous leak from gas dating back to World War II, which came only after a lower court had rebuffed the Chinese plaintiffs.
Ill feeling was fueled even further just weeks after the hotel fiasco, when Chinese students in Xian led a riot because of a show performed by Japanese counterparts that they deemed "obscene." Officials from the Osaka company, which has not been named, admit they hired "companions" for employees staying at the hotel, but denying employing prostitutes or specifying that they be supplied.
Prostitution is officially illegal in China, but the sale of sex is rampant throughout the country, particularly in areas near hotels that frequently accommodate foreigners.
Despite the huge publicity attracted by the case, China held trials with incredible alacrity behind closed doors for the Chinese citizens involved in the hotel orgy, sentencing two to life sentences and handing out hefty terms to another 12.
Beijing has also asked Interpol to arrest three Japanese men - Isao Hirobe, Shunji Takahashi and Koji Fukunaga - who it says arranged the wild romp.
As Tokyo has already apologized over the incident, the trio's arrest seems imminent in an attempt to appease Beijing despite the lack of an extradition treaty between Japan and China.
Japanese critics of the case have argued that Beijing has fanned hatred of Japan. They point out that furor over the hotel orgy arose at about the same time a group of Chinese students admitted slaying a Fukuoka family of four in a case that has rocked Japan to its core.
And the sentences in the orgy case were handed out just days before the National Police Agency released statistics that showed serious crimes committed by foreigners in Japan were poised to reach a record high in 2003, with Chinese nationals accounting for more than half the non-Japanese arrested in the first 11 months of the year. (By Ryann Connell, Staff Writer, Dec. 22, 2003)
Mainichi Daily
Claims that over 400 men from an Osaka-based construction company hired hundreds of Chinese prostitutes to carry out a three-day orgy timed to coincide with the September anniversary of Japan's 1931 invasion of China highlighted continued public flogging of Japan this year.
Outrage greeted the news that hundreds had been taken in by the police in the wake of the sordid marathon at the Zuhai International Convention Center that ended on Sept. 18.
Anti-Japanese sentiment always bubbling near the surface in China was already high over the Tokyo High Court's decision at about the same time the hotel story broke to compensate some Chinese citizens over a poisonous leak from gas dating back to World War II, which came only after a lower court had rebuffed the Chinese plaintiffs.
Ill feeling was fueled even further just weeks after the hotel fiasco, when Chinese students in Xian led a riot because of a show performed by Japanese counterparts that they deemed "obscene." Officials from the Osaka company, which has not been named, admit they hired "companions" for employees staying at the hotel, but denying employing prostitutes or specifying that they be supplied.
Prostitution is officially illegal in China, but the sale of sex is rampant throughout the country, particularly in areas near hotels that frequently accommodate foreigners.
Despite the huge publicity attracted by the case, China held trials with incredible alacrity behind closed doors for the Chinese citizens involved in the hotel orgy, sentencing two to life sentences and handing out hefty terms to another 12.
Beijing has also asked Interpol to arrest three Japanese men - Isao Hirobe, Shunji Takahashi and Koji Fukunaga - who it says arranged the wild romp.
As Tokyo has already apologized over the incident, the trio's arrest seems imminent in an attempt to appease Beijing despite the lack of an extradition treaty between Japan and China.
Japanese critics of the case have argued that Beijing has fanned hatred of Japan. They point out that furor over the hotel orgy arose at about the same time a group of Chinese students admitted slaying a Fukuoka family of four in a case that has rocked Japan to its core.
And the sentences in the orgy case were handed out just days before the National Police Agency released statistics that showed serious crimes committed by foreigners in Japan were poised to reach a record high in 2003, with Chinese nationals accounting for more than half the non-Japanese arrested in the first 11 months of the year. (By Ryann Connell, Staff Writer, Dec. 22, 2003)
Mainichi Daily
