October 24, 2006
Japanese Tourists Hit With "Paris Syndrome"
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Reuters reports;
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Wow, and I thought New York was bad. Don't stop by the Eiffel Tower, stop by the Empire State Building instead! Or not, you may have to worry about Paris Hilton?
Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Check out some of these cases:
Already this year, Japan's embassy in Paris has had to repatriate at least four visitors -- including two women who believed their hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against them.
Previous cases include a man convinced he was the French "Sun King", Louis XIV, and a woman who believed she was being attacked with microwaves, the paper cited Japanese embassy official Yoshikatsu Aoyagi as saying.
Wow, and I thought New York was bad. Don't stop by the Eiffel Tower, stop by the Empire State Building instead! Or not, you may have to worry about Paris Hilton?
