This doesn't even sound that Japanese to me. Replace "Hideyuki Noguchi" with "Matthew Johnson," replace yen and euros with dollars, and replace the locations with Omaha, Dallas, and Tallahassee, and I'd have no problem believing it happened here. Still despicable, but doesn't seem like a "Really, Japan?" kind of thing. Maybe if he dressed them like Sailor Moon and rubbed live squid on their genitals, but I could still believe an American pulled that off.
I don't know why you're holding this against all of Japan. It was just one guy. Also, what Buck Turgidson said.
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I thought the "Japan, Really?" part had to do more with the women than the one guy...In other words, are women really that gullible?