TOKYO - They lick communal soy sauce bottles and spit on other people's sushi rolls. They slurp from spoons in communal bowls. And they laugh into the camera.
These pranksters, looking to go viral online at conveyor belt sushi restaurants, have become the buzziest topic on Japanese social media this past week. Their videos have each generated millions of views and have sparked so much outrage and disgust that a new term is trending: "sushi tero," short for sushi terrorism.