"Japanese Tour Operators Clean Paris Streets This Weekend"
“They say they want to make the city cleaner for their own people, who have high standards, but in recent years Paris has actually become one of the cleanest cities in the world,” a Paris city hall spokesman said.
The council organized a massive cleanup operation 4 years ago and when members of the council claimed that Paris didn’t win the 2012 Olympics due to its dirty streets. One of the former environment heads, Yves Contassot, said that Paris was “the dog poo capital of the world” by 2001.
The problem is that Paris is also considered one of the rudest capitals of the world for tourists. Japanese tourists say that locals are rude and hostile. They even developed a term called “Paris Syndrome” since many of them suffer a psychiatric breakdown. Foreign visitors expect to find beautiful streets and romantic people, and they find a dirty city full of rude people. The Japanese embassy created a 24-hour hotline for those suffering from cultural shock.
