Three people have been arrested in Japan over unhygienic pranks at a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant after footage of their antics — dubbed “sushi terrorism” — sparked outrage online. | AFP
Other unsavory pranks included customers touching moving pieces of sushi with a freshly licked finger, or sucking the rim of a teacup before placing it back on a shelf.A police spokesman said 21-year-old Ryoga Yoshino and an unnamed 15-year-old girl were arrested Wednesday, while the group’s third member, a 19-year-old man whose identity was also withheld, was collared last month.
The group’s antics forced employees at Kura Sushi to perform emergency cleaning, “making normal business operations difficult,” the police spokesman added. The company that operates Kura Sushi, which has nearly 500 outlets in Japan, welcomed the arrests in a statement.“We sincerely hope the arrests will spread awareness in society that these pranks, which fundamentally undermine our system based on a relationship of trust with customers, are a crime, and that there will be no copycat acts in future,” the firm said.
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