1. Sushi restaurants in Japan are taking action after videos of unhygienic pranks — which some have called “sushi terrorism” — were posted online.
2. One video, taken at a Sushiro conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Gifu city, showed a young customer licking the top of a soy sauce bottle before putting it back on the conveyor belt.
3. In the video, which has now been seen by millions of people, he also puts a tea cup in his mouth before returning it, and licks his finger and puts it on a piece of sushi still on the conveyor belt.
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4. Sushiro — Japan’s biggest conveyor belt sushi company — said it reported the customer to the police, although he and his parents have said they were sorry.
5. Many people shared their disgust on social media, with some saying they would stop going to conveyor belt sushi restaurants. Sushiro, which has restaurants in other Asian countries including Korea and Thailand, has also said it will temporarily stop using conveyor belts in its restaurants, according to Kyodo News.
6. Conveyor belts have been used for sushi in Japan since the late 1950s, allowing customers to sit at their tables and take plates of food as they move past.
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7. The Gifu restaurant changed all its sauce bottles, and customers will now have to collect some things — including bottles of sauce — from a central place in the restaurant instead of from the conveyor belt.
8. But other videos have been posted online showing customers playing unhygienic pranks in different sushi restaurants. One affected restaurant, Kura Sushi, said it plans to put cameras above the conveyor belts to help stop future pranks.
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