Real French people scare Japanese tourists

MSN had a charming article last week that had a certain je ne sai quoi- oh I know, questionable veracity. So anyway MSN is reporting that apparently Japanese tourists have this thing called "paris syndrome" which is basically shock at seeing that the real Paris does not live up to what they imagined it to be.[MSN] It seems Japanese tourists are expecting hospitality, elegance and cleanliness and instead they get smelly pits, smelly pits and berets. Anyway so you laugh, but this actually requires treatment and in past years, tourists have had to be "repatriated" because they were convinced microwaves were attacking them or believed themselves to be Louis XIV (the sunk king). Don't worry, though, apparently a third of all patients recover almost immediately upon repatriation. This all seems very strange to me, Japanese people seem like smart enough people, as a race- they have Sony, samurais and sushi. Yet this article is telling me that they literally go insane upon the realization that Paris is full of smelly French people with a baguette and a cigarette hanging out of both sides of their mouths? I don't buy it. I think the Japanese are faking it and their ultimate goal is to make sure fois gras is outlawed and sushi rules the world! Oh...wait.