BEIJING, Oct 30 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

BEIJING, Oct 30 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

sum of two units Japanese university students were physically assaulted Friday in the central Chinese city of Xian through Chinese classmates angered at lewd attire worn at a denomination party earlier this week, reports and Japanese consular officials said.

As centurys of Chinese students press local officials to make the Japanese partygoers publicly apologize, a Japanese consular official is also asking Chinese to expres repentance for the assault. No details of the injured bookish mans were immediately available.

united of the two students was sent to diocese a doctor but did not require hospitalization, the consular official said.

''No matter what the reason was, the learner was injured, we think the Chinese side should expres regret'' the consular official said. He added that China should deal with the delinquents according to the law.

The incident, which ensues about five weeks after a certain quantity of 280 Japanese travelers invited 500 prostitutes to a tavern party in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, has firinged smoldering anti-Japanese sentiment among the Chinese public.

forward Wednesday night, three Japanese language bookish mans and a Japanese professor at Northwest University, a general-purpose body with 2,300 students and 1100 faculty, wore bras and hung fake genitals from their waists at a party performance, the official Xinhua novels Agency reported.

Feeling ''humiliated,'' the nearest day at noon Chinese pupils protested on the campus, and at 6:40 pm ''several hundred'' took to the public ways of Xian, heading toward a central plaza with a petition asking local command to make the Japanese close examiners apologize publicly, Xinhua reported.

forward Friday, because the two learners were hit, all 80 foreign bookish mans left the student apartments forward campus, according to a statement from the Japanese Embassy. They are now staying in a hotel

Japanese consular officials in succession Friday sent a representative to Xian to expect after the Japanese students and speak with university authorities about what happened.

The embassy believes the Xinhua version of ends the consular official said, and exhibited regret that the Japanese close examiners did not behave better. The embassy noted that in Japan of the like kind behavior would be equally unacceptable.

Chinese officials have been quiet about the party and the asseverates University leaders declined comment Friday.

Representatives of the Shaanxi Province Foreign Affairs Office, the Xian police department and the Xian city freshs office declined to move information about the party or the asseverates There was no statement Friday from the Foreign Ministry.

However, members of the public squeeze outed outrage over the incident. Internet bulletin boards aired threats and profanity. single commentator asked for a ''chance to slaughter the pigs.''

''I don't be perceived surprised,'' said Zhu Sihao, a university learner in Beijing who demonstrated at the Japanese Embassy last month through the Zhuhai prostitution issue. ''This will have an impact onward (Sino-Japanese) relations. It's an injurious matter, an insult that will affect feelings between the brace peoples.''

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