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CULTURE CLASH LEAVES JAPANESE AFFLICTED WITH 'PARIS SYNDROME' Received Sunday, 19 December 2004 12:44:00 GMT PARIS, Dec 19 (AFP) - For years visitors to the French capital have complained of the rudeness of the locals, but now there are the first documented victims: hundreds of young Japanese women who have fallen prey to what a Japanese psychiatrist identifies as "Paris syndrome." According to Dr Hiroyki Ota, who works at the Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital in Paris, more than 100 Japanese people pass through his consulting room every year showing the same symptoms of nervous depression. Around a quarter have to be...