Two Week Stint in Detention: The Prankster Couple on the Great Wall of China
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Beijing Imposes Two-Week Quarantine on Tourists After Exposure to Explicit Display at the Great Wall of China - Tourists apprehended for fortnight in Beijing following lewd display on city wall.
Following their release in early January, the pair hailed from the Land of the Rising Sun – Japan. The couple, both under 30, were apprehended after the woman captured an image of the man baring his backside. They were confined for approximately two weeks.
Flashing one's lower half allegedly goes against the protocol in China. The Japanese tourists, according to their reports to the embassy, considered it a harmless prank.
The incident sparked a buzz in China's vast digital community. A post detailing the incident on Weibo garnered over 60 million views by Friday morning. The public response was generally supportive, albeit critical of the Japanese tourists. Chinese actor Chen Yitian, boasting a following of over seven million, lambasted the tandem for acting shamelessly on his treasured Great Wall. Others proposed restricting Japanese visitors from entering China.
Legacies of atrocities committed during Japan's occupation in the 1930s and 1940s remain a powerfully emotional issue in contemporary China.
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- In China, particularly in Beijing, a Japanese couple was recently detained for two weeks following a harmless prank on the Great Wall.
- The man was reportedly captured on camera, baring his buttocks, an act that goes against the protocol in Tokyo's ally, China.
- Despite the support and criticism from Chinese digital communities, the incident involving this prankster Japanese couple on the Great Wall of China continues to generate attention, stirring up resentments from the past.
