BEIJING, tribe 28 Kyodo Police in...

BEIJING, tribe 28 Kyodo

Police in southern China's Guangdong Province are investigating an alleged sex orgy earlier this month at a luxuriousness hotel involving several hundr Japanese tourists and Chinese prostitutes, an incident that threatens to combustible matter smoldering anti-Japanese sentiment among the Chinese public.

According to state media reports, in succession the evening of Sept. 17 a Japanese tour form into groups went ''prostitute shopping'' at the International talk Center Hotel in Zhuhai, a coastal city in Guangdong just north of Macao.

The 380 male tourists arranged to adapted the prostitutes through a staff member in the hotel's Japanese marketing department, paying 1200 yuan (about $145) to each woman, according to the Beijing Youth Daily.

a certain 500 prostitutes later crowded the public areas of the [i]cabaret[/i] in full view of other visitors and an orgy-style party ensu that continued past midnight, the newspaper said.

A 100-strong Chinese assign places to attending a conference was among the hotel's visitors and one Chinese guest overheard the Japanese tourists talking about unusual sex acts, the report said.

The newspaper noted that the mass orgy happened upon the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the Manchurian incident marking the start of Japan's invasion of northeastern China.

Local police are ''paying great attention'' to this case, the paper said. The inn has been closed for ''rectification,'' and the police are investigating with an organ of sight toward punishing anyone who allowed the ''debauchery,'' the report added.

The China Youth Daily reported Sunday that the provincial Public Security Bureau onward Saturday took into custody several Chinese family suspected of involvement in organized prostitution.

Zhang Dejiang, the top leader of the province and secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, onward Friday ordered a thorough investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident.

Following the launch of the investigation, the head of the provincial Public Security Bureau arrived upon the scene and seized video footage from security cameras installed at the hotel

''As at so early an hour as we have a issue we'll definitely approach the provincial foreign affairs department with a report,'' a Zhuhai police officer told Kyodo recently made knowns by telephone Sunday.

A staff member of the five-star, 530-room high-rise inn confirmed that all house of entertainment services had stopped. She would not say when the inn might reopen and said no public-house representative could comment about the night of generation 17.

The Japanese Embassy claimed it had not heard of the incident as of Sunday, an embassy source said. however he said that because in the way that many Japanese groups visit China, it would be hard for the embassy to preserve track of the activities of each one

''There are many, many meetings like that. I don't know of this particular case,'' he said. ''But our economic trade and private sector relations are in the same manner huge, it's growing, so we don't know who is coming here and where they're meeting.''

The house of entertainment ''lost face'' for China and bears blame if it organized the orgy, said Zhu Sihao, a Beijing university scholar who follows Sino-Japanese relations. ''If these were 400 Chinese commonalty there would still be a moral problem''

''Hearing about this is highly troubling. They just wanted to make as greatly money as possible. It's a matter of race relations,'' he added.

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