Saitama – There’s little practical information to be gleaned from the performances of Kawasaki Frontale and Urawa Reds in their defeats against Paris Saint-Germain last week, during the first two stops of the superstar club’s sold-out Japan tour.
But the different ways their fans approached the game says much about Japan’s supporter culture — and what it shares, or doesn’t, with its European counterparts.
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