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CEBU, Philippines?Four Japanese tourists earlier arrested for videotaping a couple having sex on a beach on Sulpa islet left Cebu yesterday with standing orders not to come back.
The four were subjected to ?voluntary deportation?, said immigration officials who said the visitors were ?blacklisted? for committing ?indecent acts?in Cebu and would not be allowed to return.
The four unwanted aliens were among 10 Japanese tourists who took Philippine Airlines PR flight 434 to Narita, Japan from the Mactan Cebu International Airport at 7:55 a.m. yesterday said Geronimo Rosas, director of the Bureau of Immigration in Central Visayas (BI-7.
The Japanese departed exactly a week after they were arrested for filming a sex video on Sulpa Islet off Olango Island in Lapu-Lapu City. The six others were part of their tour group that arrived in Cebu on July 27.
The four were Miyawaki Yuki, 26 and her partner Yokomizo Masashi, 36; Izuno Hiwaki, 24, and Takimoto Yuichiro, 40.
Rossas said the six other Japanese tourists could still visit the country but they would be placed on the immigration's watch list.
?Under the blacklist, they can not enter the country any more, but under the watch list, they can come back but we can check their activities,? he explained.
Rosas said he submitted his recommendations to the immigration commissioner.
Yuki and her partner Masahi were naked on the beach having sexual intercourse while the two other men videotaped the couple.
The four were charged with violation of Article 201 of the Revised Penal Code, which penalizes indecent and lewd acts. They were released after posting bail of P24,000 and pleaded guilty to the charges. They paid a fine of P6,000 each and were released.
Supt. Louie Oppus, Lapu-Lapu police chief, expressed dismay over the low penalty. He said this should serve as wake up call for legislators to increase the penalties for indecent and lewd acts.
Rosas said he would not question the low penalty as it was based on the law but said the apprehension served a clear warning to foreign tourists not to violate laws protecting decency.
The Japanese tourists had 21 days to stay in the country, starting July 27. But Rosas said he would have ordered their arrest and deportation had they not left on their own.
Correspondent Jhunnex Napallacan
