High faculty pupil, who licked sushi chain’s soy sauce bottle in Japan, sued for $480,000

By India Today World Desk: A highschool pupil in Japan has been sued by a sushi chain, for 67 million yen ($480,000). The improvement comes after a social media video in January this yr confirmed the scholar licking his finger and touching a plate of sushi on a conveyor belt.

Further, the chain, Akindo Sushiro Co., which operates the Sushiro restaurant chain, claims the viral video has precipitated a major decline in prospects at their outlet in Gifu metropolis.

In the footage, the scholar will also be seen licking a soy sauce bottle and a cup earlier than putting them again amongst communal objects.

The video has gained widespread consideration in Japan, even contributing to the emergence of the time period “sushi terrorism,” which refers to unhygienic actions at sushi prepare eating places, the place prospects choose dishes from conveyor belts.

Similar movies involving opponents of Sushiro additionally circulated across the similar time.

In the lawsuit, Akindo Sushiro Co., in Osaka District Court, claimed it suffered a lack of roughly 16 billion yen ($115 million) and a decline within the inventory of its mum or dad firm because of the video.

Local media reported that the scholar’s authorized counsel despatched a letter to the courtroom in May requesting the dismissal of the criticism.

The letter acknowledged the scholar’s actions and expressed regret, however argued that there was no proof linking his actions to the lower in prospects on the sushi chain.

The protection additionally prompt that the trade’s fierce competitors might be a contributing issue to the decline.