{"id":53258,"date":"2023-03-09T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/arrests-made-after-wave-of-sushi-terrorism-upends-japans-restaurant-industry"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T04:58:19","slug":"arrests-made-after-wave-of-sushi-terrorism-upends-japans-restaurant-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53258","title":{"rendered":"Arrests made after wave of \u2018sushi terrorism\u2019 upends Japan\u2019s restaurant industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of deliberately unhygienic behaviour have risen in recent weeks, including an incident in which a diner drunk from a soy sauce bottle<\/p>\n<p>Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have made several arrests after the country\u2019s multibillion dollar revolving sushi industry was rocked by a spate of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/03\/wave-of-sushi-terrorism-grips-japans-restaurant-world\">sushi terrorism<\/a>\u201d, including a case in which a customer wiped saliva on food destined for other diners.<\/p>\n<p>The Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday that three people \u2013 all part of the same group of diners \u2013 had been arrested on suspicion of forcible obstruction of business.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/arrests-made-after-wave-of-sushi-terrorism-upends-japans-restaurant-industry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of deliberately unhygienic behaviour have risen in recent weeks, including an incident in which a diner drunk from a soy sauce bottlePolice in Japan have made several arrests after the country\u2019s multibillion dollar revolving sushi industry was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[311,88,382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-japan","category-restaurants"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53270,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53258\/revisions\/53270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}