Japanese fans like to keep their distance and watch from afar while Chinese fans are much more forward.

Schumacher, the team's leader with 12 victories and the favorite among Chinese fans, ran a disappointing race.

The attitude of Chinese fans had not improved despite police warnings before the game.

"The Chinese fans didn't have a team in the finals, so they would cheer for good soccer," she said.

Chinese fans kept congratulating the pair, who are seeded No. 12 in the tournament, and were asking to have pictures taken with them.

Hanging from the ceiling were painted Chinese fans with the photographs of the people in the piece embedded into them.

The boy's will folded like a Chinese fan.

Freed from a small Chinese fan, also sent by Tasuke's father.

His ears twitched like small Chinese fans held in nervous fingers.