MMORPG game foments anti-Japanese riots

This is a really interesting story about an online role-playing game in China, where players recently [virtually] rioted after finding a [virtual] rising sun on the wall of a [virtual] government office. As a result of the [virtual] riot, the leader of a 700-person guild was [virtually] jailed in the [virtual] Great Tang Permanent Incarceration Prison.

Of course, that guild leader's name was "Kill the Little Japs," and his guild was called "The Alliance to Resist Japan." So as salon.com's Andrew Leonard points out, "One suddenly feels a little less sympathy, notwithstanding the horrors of the Nanjing massacre and the brutal Japanese occupation of mainland China more than six decades ago."

Anyways, here's a picture of the early stages of the riot, followed by the late stages. Pretty fascinating stuff...!!