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XIAN, China (Kyodo) - Three Japanese students and a Japanese teacher left for home from the central Chinese city of Xian on Nov. 3 after being expelled or dismissed from Northwest University for putting on a racy skit during a cultural festival the week before, sources said.

They also said that among 43 Japanese students at the university, eight apart from the expelled three hope to return home, while another eight will transfer to other universities in the wake of protests over the "offensive" show.

Two Japanese students were beaten up earlier by Chinese students who broke into a university dormitory for foreign students.

The performance that caused the ruckus featured a skit, in which the expelled students and the teacher dressed in red brassieres and wore paper "genitals," that many of the Chinese in the audience found beyond the pale.

Meanwhile, Chinese authorities punished 52 Chinese residents who took part in an illegal anti-Japan protest march following the show, the sources said.

In Beijing, a Japanese Embassy official said the embassy will caution its citizens to be more careful and considerate to head off more trouble over such incidents. It will publish an advisory on its Web site that Japanese learn to relate to Chinese better.

Anti-Japanese anger in China has reached a new level over the past two months due to the mid-September Zhuhai incident involving 280 Japanese company employees on a junket and some 500 prostitutes, and this recent university performance.

西安大学寸劇事件の波紋

中国の西北大学の文化祭で「わいせつ寸劇」を演じて反日デモを招いた日本人留学生3人と日本人教師の計4人は3日に当地から帰国した。

Shukan ST: Nov. 14, 2003

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