Three Japanese students and a Japanese teacher left for home from the central Chinese city of Xian on Monday after being expelled or dismissed from Northwest University for putting on a racy skit during a cultural festival last week, sources close to the situation 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 last week 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 attending the festival found beyond the pale for Chinese audiences.