Chinese Sentenced for Sex Orgy with Japanese

Over a three-day period ending Sept.18, about 400 Japanese men and as many as 500 Chinese women had a sex orgy at the Zhuhai International Conference Center Hotel. The sex party occurred on the anniversary of a 1931 Japanese attack in northeast China that many Chinese regard as the start of Japan's wartime invasion and occupation.

Talk about bad timing!

As a result, the Chinese were outraged and the organizers and employees of the hotel were charged with prostitution, soliciting, conspiracy and other offenses in Zhuhai Intermediate Court. More than a dozen individuals were tried, convicted and given sentences of two years to life in prison. Arrest warrants for three Japanese organizers have been issued.

Prostitution is illegal but normally not prosecuted in China.

My take on this story is that there's an element of real sadness involved. The Chinese are rightly very angry with Japan for not only not atoning for the brutality it inflicted on China during the 1930s and 1940s, but not even acknowledging that it occurred. A persistent undercurrent of distrust and hatred of everything Japanese is prevalent throughout China. Yet, the people who are being hurt the most are Chinese citizens who, in all likelihood, were just doing their everyday jobs working at the hotel.