{"id":54077,"date":"2023-04-05T14:53:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/05\/diners-in-japan-arrested-for-dipping-own-chopsticks-in-communal-bowl-of-ginger"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:53:23","slug":"diners-in-japan-arrested-for-dipping-own-chopsticks-in-communal-bowl-of-ginger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54077","title":{"rendered":"Diners in Japan arrested for dipping own chopsticks in communal bowl of ginger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests over prank at beef bowl restaurant in Osaka come in wake of \u2018sushi terrorism\u2019 revelations that have gripped Japan\u2019s food industry<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s crackdown on errant diners in the wake of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/03\/wave-of-sushi-terrorism-grips-japans-restaurant-world\">sushi terrorism<\/a>\u201d has intensified after two men were arrested for using their chopsticks to remove a condiment from a communal container at a restaurant in Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests of Toshihide Oka and Ryu Shimazu came as the country\u2019s budget food service sector attempts to contain a wave of bad behaviour among clientele that began early this year at popular chain restaurants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/05\/diners-in-japan-arrested-for-dipping-own-chopsticks-in-communal-bowl-of-ginger\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests over prank at beef bowl restaurant in Osaka come in wake of \u2018sushi terrorism\u2019 revelations that have gripped Japan\u2019s food industryJapan\u2019s crackdown on errant diners in the wake of \u201csushi terrorism\u201d has intensified after two men were arrested for&#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":[41,311,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54077","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=54077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54078,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54077\/revisions\/54078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}