Several hundred Chinese college students marched onto the streets in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Thursday afternoon to protest three Japanese students' humiliation of Chinese people by giving obscene performance at campus.

Three Japanese students and a Japanese teacher in the Northwest China University wore brassieres and hung false genitals at their waists at an evening party held by the university's foreign language school on Wednesday, says a spokesman with the provincial bureau of education.

They also threw scraps of paper from the underwear to audience and gave obscene dances. The students and teachers of the university immediately stopped their performances.

At noon on Thursday, thousands of Chinese students gathered in front of the university's foreign students dormitory to demand the Japanese students to apologize, according to the spokesman.

At 18:40, several hundreds of students walked out the school to a square at the downtown Xi'an and presented their petitions to the local government, insisting the Japanese students should apologize in public.

The students returned to the university at about 22:00, the spokesman said.

(China Daily October 31, 2003)