Investigation launched over Japanese sex orgy at China hotel.

BEIJING, Sept. 28 Kyodo

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

According to state media reports, on the evening of Sept. 17, a Japanese tour group went ''prostitute shopping'' at the International Conference Center Hotel in Zhuhai, a coastal city in Guangdong just north of Macao.

The 380 male tourists arranged to meet the prostitutes through a staff member in the hotel's Japanese marketing department, …