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What gives? I thought Japs were law-abiding

Japanese restaurants are switching off conveyor belts after a wave of 'sushi terrorism'

> Chains across the country have taken action after viral videos showed people licking communal bottles and touching passing food

> The conveyor belt sushi restaurant industry, worth an estimated ¥740bn (£4.5bn/$5.4bn) in 2021, has been hit hard by the spate of viral videos showing, among other misdemeanours, customers licking communal sauce bottles, daubing wasabi on food as it passes by, spraying sushi with hand sanitiser and snatching plates of food destined for other tables.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/sushi-terrorism-sees-japans-conveyor-belt-restaurants-grind-to-a-halt