Japanese Tourists Are Often Targets in Kolkata - Dangerous men posing as guides hang around Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity house and Sudder Street —both hunting grounds for their quarry: Japanese tourists. These groups of Japanese-speaking Indian men take advantage of the visitors’ cultural idiosyncrasies and lack of English-language skills to isolate and then steal from them, according to Japanese residents of Kolkata and some of the men themselves. “Two Indian men, speaking fluent Japanese, approached me while I was at a restaurant with a friend,” said a female Japanese traveler in her 20s, who declined to be named. The two men were polite and tried to make friendly conversation. “They asked my name, the name of my hotel and offered to help with my travel plans,” she said. She was tempted to answer, but noticed her friend—an older woman, with previous experience traveling in India—had gone silent. “Later she warned me about men like this, who cheat Japanese tourists,” she said. In late November of 2014, one such tourist was kidnapped by her tour guides, according to police. The guides, police say, stole from her, locked her in a room, and raped her repeatedly for two weeks.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:54:15 +0000
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