Stomach-churning 'sushi terrorism' leads to arrests, reforms in Japan

Viral videos of diners at Japanese conveyor belt sushi locations engaging in unhygienic pranks have been dubbed "sushi terrorism" and have now resulted in three arrests.

Those pranks eventually led to the arrests of three people in Aichi, a Japanese prefecture in central Honshu Island, according to a Thursday report in NBC News. The two men, ages 21 and 19, and a 15-year-old girl, were caught after they were connected to a viral video showing them drinking soy sauce directly from a communal cup last month at a Kura Sushi location. Michael Lee is a writer at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @UAMichaelLee

The viral trend has shaken the country's multibillion-dollar kaitenzushi industry, long known for high standards of cleanliness, sending shares of the companies that own such establishments plummeting and causing reforms for the eateries long beloved in Japanese culture.