It's plain disgusting, but I just had to blog this in:

BEIJING (AFP) - The Chinese government has ordered Japan to teach its citizens how to behave following an "extremely odious" mass orgy between hundreds of Japanese tourists and Chinese prostitutes.

Responding to mounting fury over the three-day orgy in a hotel in the southern city of Zhuhai on the anniversary of Japan's occupation of China, the Chinese foreign ministry ( news -web sites ) said it had launched a formal investigation

The Chinese media and Internet chatrooms have been crackling with anger over reports of the September 16-18 sex marathon which reportedly involved 380 male Japanese tourists and 500 prostitutes at a five-star hotel.

"This case is of an extremely odious nature," foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan said in a statement late Sunday.

Now, this is at first exceedingly odd, then exceedingly repulsive. And I imagine something like this, although probably not at this magnitude, happens frequently in the Philippines. Japanese tourists are known to go on sex tours in Manila. The Chinese are furious, but:

Memories of Japan's wartime atrocities, including rapes and use of Chinese women as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers, remain strong among the older generation, and the history of the Japanese occupation until 1945 is regularly taught to the younger generation.

Despite the official outrage over the incident, China's booming southern cities are a well-known magnet for sex tourists from within China as well as from places such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.

Alas, such is the case back in the Philippines.