Grim acts of ‘sushi terrorism’ have forced four of Japan’s ‘big five’ sushi restaurants to scrap self-service after footage showed customers rubbing their saliva on plates.

Sushi served on the conveyor belt has long been a favorite among diners, but there are now fears they are on their way out due to the horrific behavior of some customers.

Leading restaurants in Japan that use the Kaiten – or rotating – serving system are being forced to switch to more traditional methods of serving their raw delicacies as a result of the trends filmed and posted on social media.

Now, only one of the five largest sushi chains in Japan, Kura Sushi, remains committed to keeping its sushi available to customers.

The “sushi terrorism” trend in Japan has customers doing gross things at restaurants, such as licking bottles of soy sauce and eating ginger straight from a communal jar.

Yoshinoya

In April, footage showed a man, locally named Ryu Shimazu, dining in Yoshinoya, Osaka, using a pair of chopsticks to push large amounts of red grated ginger from a shared black container into his mouth.

According to local reports, he was arrested for conspiring to interfere in the affairs of the popular eatery.

Yoshinoya was subsequently forced to stop offering the band serving position after Shimazu “caused fear and ill feelings among other customers and raised questions about safety and security in the food service industry.”

But the heinous acts of ‘food terrorism’ did not stop there.

A kind of Sushiro

Other footage also shows a teenage diner at Akindo Sushiro, Japan, touching pieces of sushi on a conveyor belt with freshly licked fingers and cups, before leaving them in a pile for other customers to use.

The chain’s owner said the footage led to a sharp drop in shares after it went viral, racking up nearly 40 million views in June.

According to The Asahi Shimbun, Sushiro then removed the tires and introduced a large touchscreen to virtually show dishes instead of parading plates of food past guests.

A monitor, called Digital SushiroVision, or Digiro, shows animated images of sushi dishes moving around on the conveyor belt at each table and counter that can be ordered.

“Digital technology has helped us create a new way to enjoy conveyor belt sushi,” said Kohei Nii, president of Akindo Sushiro Co, the chain’s operator.

‘Digiro offers a happier and more enjoyable dining experience.’

The creepy clips have not only caused much embarrassment for the popular eateries, but have also increased costs for the targeted restaurants, who have been forced to apologize to their disgusted customers.

Choshimaru

Worried that the wave of ‘sushi terrorism’ in Japan is growing and images of the sickening acts are regularly appearing on social media, Choshimaru, a chain that operates restaurants in and around Tokyo, revealed last year that it would be taking drastic measures to combat the problem. to fight. after a diner stubbed out a cigarette in a jar of pickled ginger.

The chain’s staff initially began bringing condiments and cutlery to tables each time a new group of guests were seated.

But the eatery went one step further, revealing that conveyor belts at all 63 restaurants would be shut down – and more staff would be brought in to manually deliver orders.

While this took away the popular and fun element of ordering sushi, the company reasoned that the absence of plates traveling on a conveyor belt through the restaurant would make it virtually impossible for pranksters to tamper with other customers’ orders.

And a number of other restaurants followed suit.

Hama sushi

Hama Sushi did away with the conveyor belt at the start of the pandemic, when the trend started to become popular in Japan Japan today.

Instead, they now rely solely on the express lanes used by most major chains, where the customer orders via a touchscreen at their seat and the desired dish zooms straight to their table.

Tablets are also being installed in the tables, so customers have less physical contact with the dishes before or after ordering.

Kura Sushi

Yet Kura Sushi takes a stand against the ‘sushi terrorists’ and keeps the conveyor belts alive through the use of technology.

The restaurant had to take special precautions after a customer was caught eating sushi from a moving belt and drinking straight from a communal bottle of soy sauce.

The new measures include installing antibacterial covers to protect the fish from stray saliva droplets and AI camera systems to identify suspicious customer behavior.

They have also added microchips to the boxes the sushi plates come in.

In addition to monitoring how long they have been on the leash, they can detect if the case has been tampered with, so customers can avoid sushi that may have been compromised.

“Conveyor belt sushi is something we are proud of as part of Japanese culture. “We want to ensure that our customers can safely and comfortably eat belt-delivered sushi,” a company official said last year.

“Our company has heard from a large number of customers that they no longer trust us or want to go to conveyor belt sushi restaurants,” Hiroyuki Okamoto, head of public relations for Kura Sushi, told reporters, according to the Mainichi Shimbun.

“This is a crisis not just for our stores, but for the entire sushi industry as a whole,” Okamoto said, adding that using AI would reassure diners even if it meant effectively putting them under surveillance .

But most restaurants seem to have had enough of the stomach-churning “sushi terrorism” and are starting to cut out conveyor belts entirely.

The news network Al Jazeera said one of its journalists was held for 12 hours. Said the journalist, Ismail al-Ghoul, had been severely beaten. The Israeli military has not responded to the allegations outrage of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The Gaza Ministry of Health condemned the raid as a “crime against health institutions,” and humanitarian organizations expressed concern about the situation in the complex. The hospital, together with the surrounding area, housed 30,000 patients, medical staff and displaced civilians.

“Hospitals should never be a battlefield,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization. a message on social media warned that the situation “endangered health workers, patients and citizens.

Doctors Without Borders said it was “extremely concerned” about the safety of patients and medical staff at the hospital complex. In a statement On Monday, the organization urged “all warring parties to respect the grounds and perimeter of the hospital and ensure the safety of medical staff, patients and citizens.”

Israel has said the hospital complex served as a secret military command center for Hamas, calling it one of many examples of civilian facilities used by Hamas to protect its activities.

Four months ago, Israeli forces stormed the complex and found a tunnel shaft that they said supported their claim that the armed group had used it to conceal military operations.

Since then, Israel has withdrawn many troops from northern Gaza and shifted the focus of its invasion south. As a result, lawlessness has increasingly taken hold in the north, prompting international aid agencies to suspend operations despite a serious humanitarian crisis.

The Biden administration has become increasingly critical of Israel’s warfare and the toll it is taking on civilians. On Monday, President Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said said that “more innocent civilians have been killed in this conflict, during this military operation, than in all the wars in Gaza combined, including thousands of children.”

“A humanitarian crisis has unfolded across Gaza, and anarchy reigns in areas that the Israeli army has vacated but not stabilized,” he said.

Gabby Sobelman And Rawan Sheikh Ahmad reporting contributed.

Kanye West’s Australian wife Bianca Censori is not known for her modest outfits, from wearing sheer ponchos to risking jail time for wearing sheer tights in Paris.

The 29-year-old architect, who married the 46-year-old rapper in a private ceremony in December 2022, has seen her fashion choices become increasingly risky over time, with those closest to her claiming that it has to do with Kanye’s alleged ‘controlling behavior’. manners.’

Now experts have claimed there is more to the power couple’s ‘game plan’ and that is to outdo ex-wife Kim Kardashian by ‘breaking the internet’ with the X-rated looks.

Mark Borkowski, one of Britain’s leading PR gurus, told MailOnline that Kanye West is using Bianca Censori to copy his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s publicity strategy – but is taking his ‘freak show’ to the extreme.

Using Bianca’s body and outfits to boost his fame and fortune makes for many uncomfortable and alienating brands, he said.

But Mr Borkowski said that despite accusations of controlling and coercive behavior by the former rapper, Bianca might be very happy about it.

He said: “Kanye understands the outrage and is trying to destroy the internet. I think despite everything he’s said, a lot of people are starting to feel quite uncomfortable about the fact that he feels like he can do whatever he wants with his partner.

“There’s a line drawn here between those who believe this is control and those who believe this woman is complicit and fully involved in this freak show. But it’s a weird freak show that everyone is into and some are enjoying these quite explicit photos.

“I think we’ll look back on this if there’s a divide between them as something that’s exploitative. Some dresses are made to crave publicity.

Kanye has shared a slew of highly sexualized images of his wife, despite criticizing his ex Kim Kardashian for “dressing too sexy” during his stint as a gospel artist.

When Kim wore a custom corset-style mini dress made of silk organza and dripping crystals by French designer Thierry Mugler to the 2019 Met Gala, Ye openly denounced the reality TV icon’s ensemble.

“I didn’t realize that this was affecting my soul and my spirit as someone who is married and loved, the father of what is about to be four children,” Ye said of Kim’s outfit choice.

‘A corset is a form of underwear. It’s hot. But who is it hot for?’ You are my wife, and it affects me when photos are too sexy,” he told his wife.

Mr. Borkowski continued, “One can only assume that this is a way for Kanye to keep his name front and center and on everyone’s lips, as well as a statement to his ex-wife Kim, who engaged in the same publicity he brought to another level, but she did it with much more style and panache. It wasn’t as direct as this.

“If we reevaluate those who have exploited their partners in the past, this is a high watermark.

“I feel awkward, but you’re looking at someone who can start a conversation, Kanye knows how to do that.

‘But I don’t see a strategy here. With his anti-Semitic comments and outrage, he has distanced himself so far from brands that there must be a line where he doesn’t want that.”

The couple has been making headlines lately for their attention-seeking outfit choices and bizarre outings.

Their most shocking excursion took place when they were spotted enjoying an amorous moment on a water taxi in Venice, with Kanye baring his bare bottom to staring tourists.

Footage of the couple showed the American rapper sitting in the back of the river taxi as his Australian bride rested her head on his lap.

Last month she wore a sheer poncho with nothing underneath to a music studio, although a mark on the front of the coat helped protect her ample chest, she was forced to put her hand on her crotch to protect her modesty.

She has even been photographed on her way to a tanning appointment wearing tiny black shorts with a small hole visible in the front of the pants, designed for sex toys.

A US Marine plane that crashed during the Second World War has been discovered in the South Pacific, 80 years after it went missing, DailyMail.com can confirm.

The twisted wreckage of a Douglas SBD Dauntless was found in the jungles of Papua New Guinea in January by locals who had heard stories of a nearby crash for generations.

Photos of the aircraft’s serial number (35971) match a Dauntless that crashed on January 14, 1944 with pilot Lt. Billy Ray Ramsey and gunner Sgt. Charlie J. Sciara on board.

The two Marines were officially declared dead within a year of the crash, but their remains have not been recovered and both remain listed as missing in action (MIA).

US Department of Defense officials told DailyMail.com this week that they are aware of reports of the wreck and are currently working to get a team of investigators to the site.

Photos from the crash site on New Ireland Island show the engine, propeller and wreckage of the crashed plane scattered across the jungle floor.

According to locals who discovered the wreckage, human remains were also found near the wreckage, but their identities have not yet been confirmed.

“The story was told and passed on to us by some of our grandparents that there was a plane crash in the mountain part of the jungle, but they didn’t know where exactly it crashed,” said local Kilala Kindau, who led the team that made the discovery.

Kindau said his team conducted a search through the jungle from December to January before locating the wreckage.

Kindau said his team found a serial number on the wreckage and sent it to the US embassy, ​​which confirmed the plane was American.

“The plane crashed and broke into three pieces, trapping the pilot inside and unable to escape,” he said.

That matches stories of the tragic final mission of Ramsey’s Dauntless, who was assigned to Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 236, also known as the “Black Panthers.”

On January 14, 1944, the light bomber took off from Munda Airfield on New Georgia with Ramsey at the controls and Sciara as rear gunner.

The target was Japanese shipping near Rabaul harbor, and the strike force consisted of 36 Dauntless aircraft and 18 TBF Avengers, escorted by 73 fighters.

War records show that the mission encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire and was intercepted by multiple waves of enemy fighters.

‘Lt. “The tail of Billy R. Ramsey of this squadron was shot off by anti-aircraft fire as the flight approached the target area,” according to the squadron’s war diary.

When last seen, the plane was “in a flat turn,” according to the diary.

It was initially believed that both Ramsey and Sciara died in the crash, but after the war ended, information came to light showing that Sciara survived and was captured by Japanese forces.

“After the war, my parents received a letter from the Marine Corps stating that Sergeant Charles Sciara did not die on January 14, 1944,” Sciara’s brother John Sciara said in a memorial post on Pacific wrecks.

“He somehow survived the crash and was captured by the Japanese and died in an unknown prison camp,” he added.

‘They say he might have died of malaria and beri-beri on February 22, 1944. He was probably killed by the Japanese,” the brother said. “My family was very upset after the war and didn’t really know what to believe.”

John was only ten months old when his brother died and he never saw him alive. Sergeant Sciara, a native of Brooklyn, was twenty when he died in a POW camp.

“They and many others gave up their tomorrow for our today,” John said in the online tribute.

Ramsey, the pilot from Eastland, Texas, is believed to have died in the crash. He was posthumously promoted to captain and earned the Purple Heart.

Both Ramsey and Sciara are commemorated on the tablets of the missing at the American Cemetery in Manila. Sciara also has one commemorative marker at Arlington National Cemetery, in section H.

DailyMail.com was unable to locate the surviving relatives of Ramsey or Sciara.

The Dauntless was a multirole naval reconnaissance aircraft and dive bomber manufactured by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 to 1944, flying from both aircraft carriers and airstrips.

The constructor number on the wreck – 4610 – matches information about Ramsey’s Dauntless available online.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Defense, is charged with recovering U.S. military personnel who are prisoners of war or missing in action.

A spokesperson said on Wednesday: ‘DPAA has received multiple reports that wreckage possibly linked to missing personnel has recently been discovered in New Ireland and Papua New Guinea.

‘We are working to get a team of investigators on site as quickly as possible.

“As the agency responsible for recovering the remains of Americans missing from past conflicts, DPAA is committed to following suit.”

By Chris Jewers

Published: 02:28 EST, February 22, 2024 | Updated: 02:29 EST, February 22, 2024