In February 2023 it was reported that a peculiarly Japanese outrage was taking place ....
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.... some people were interfering with food on the kaitenzushi conveyor belts in Sushi bars.
Japan as the home of the automated toilet is of course renowned for its exacting cleanliness standards and culinary etiquette. Bu in January of that year, a video of a man licking a soy sauce bottle on a sushi conveyor went viral, creating national outrage. The man was also shown squashing sushi dishes with his hand at a Kura Sushi restaurant branch.
After it was seen, dozens more such videos proliferated on-line, some showing children deliberately spoiling other diners meals by touching them. One showed a customer putting hot wasabi on another's meal, while another person was shown licking the chopsticks accompanying someone else's passing meal. The videos almost seemed to be trying to out shock each other with a a diner at a Sushiro chain outlet, seen rubbing saliva on passing sushi pieces.
Most chains rushed to install CCTV cameras overlooking the conveyor belts but even so shares in the Kaitenzushi restaurant chains took a battering .... some chains even decided to stop operating their main attraction altogether closing their sushi conveyor belts .... the Choushimaru chain said it would stop using its conveyor belts altogether, after a customer placed a cigarette butt in a jar of pickled ginger.
After this incident, a number of sushi chains threatened legal action against anyone they caught interfering with other diners food orders. In March 2023, Japanese Police arrested three people over the "sushi terror" in the central Japanese city of Nagoya. The three were aged 21, 19 and 15 (the last two, classed as minors in Japan, were not named), but the 21 yr old was names as Ryoga Yoshino and was accused of licking a communal soy sauce bottle at a Kura Sushi conveyor-belt sushi restaurant on the 3rd of February, and was charged with obstruction of business under Japan's Penal Cod(e).
All three admitted guilt and one apologised .... and that was the end of the story .... no further reports of incidents or arrests.
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