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Pranksters in Japan are potential health issues and the reputation of the country's famed conveyor-belt sushi restaurants. This week, several diners have prank videos on social media. The pranks people licking bottles of soy sauce and chopsticks, and licking their fingers and then the sushi on the revolving belt. These actions have people in Japan. The actions have been "sushi-tero," or "sushi terrorism". The incidents have the share prices of a leading sushi chain to plummet. Many restaurants have into action and taken measures to the pranksters. These include installing security cameras and providing disinfected eating utensils.

Japan's "kaitenzushi" restaurants are ubiquitous in Japan. They good quality, inexpensive sushi in an informal, casual environment. They are usually spotlessly clean. Some industry analysts are sushi terrorism a threat to the future operations of the eateries. One egregious video clip has been 40 million times and has copycat clips. The chain by the prankster is a civil lawsuit against him and is claiming compensation for damages. The Guardian newspaper that there is a lot of outrage on social media from Japanese people, who the pranksters are "contempt for the country's high standards of hygiene".