{"id":55853,"date":"2023-06-09T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/09\/sushi-what-he-did-japanese-chain-sues-viral-food-vandal-for-damages"},"modified":"2023-06-09T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T03:48:11","slug":"sushi-what-he-did-japanese-chain-sues-viral-food-vandal-for-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55853","title":{"rendered":"Sushi what he did? Japanese chain sues viral food vandal for damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sushiro says business badly damaged by video of teenager licking soy sauce bottle and wiping saliva on passing food<\/p>\n<p>A sushi chain in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> is seeking \u00a567m (\u00a3383,280) in damages from a diner who filmed himself licking a soy sauce bottle and wiping saliva on a slice of fish at one of its restaurants, part of a wave of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/03\/wave-of-sushi-terrorism-grips-japans-restaurant-world\">sushi terrorism<\/a>\u201d that scandalised the country\u2019s budget food industry.<\/p>\n<p>Sushiro, Japan\u2019s biggest operator of revolving sushi restaurants, filed the suit with a court in Osaka, according to the Kyodo news agency, arguing that it had suffered financial losses after the incident triggered public fears over food hygiene.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/09\/sushi-what-he-did-japanese-chain-sues-viral-food-vandal-for-damages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sushiro says business badly damaged by video of teenager licking soy sauce bottle and wiping saliva on passing foodA sushi chain in Japan is seeking \u00a567m (\u00a3383,280) in damages from a diner who filmed himself licking a soy sauce bottle and wiping saliva&#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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853","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=55853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853\/revisions\/55865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}