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At the Azabu-Juban Summer Festival, “Kappo Komeo” — the restaurant run by Komeo (a former BreakingDown fighter) — served “chilled crab ramen,” and a food poisoning outbreak followed the August 22–23 event. As of September 3, 78 people had reported feeling unwell, and the restaurant was hit with a seven-day business suspension order. On September 6, 2026, free-diving fisherman YouTuber Masaru voiced his criticism on X, saying “Honestly, I’m pretty furious.” On 5channel threads, many voiced concerns about lax hygiene management, while opinions on Komeo himself were split — some questioned whether critics had the standing to criticize, and others pushed back against those defending him.
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Free-diving fisherman YouTuber Masaru updated X on September 6, 2026, criticizing chef Komeo — a former BreakingDown fighter — over the food poisoning incident at the Azabu-Juban Summer Festival.
On August 22 and 23, Komeo set up a stall for his restaurant “Kappo Komeo” at the “Azabu-Juban Summer Festival” held in Minato Ward, Tokyo, serving “chilled crab ramen.” Afterward, a wave of people reported feeling unwell, and as of September 3 it was announced that 78 people had contracted food poisoning; “Kappo Komeo” was hit with a seven-day business suspension order.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
But an idiot can't handle hygiene management.
That's why chefs spend years training.
The "food hygiene supervisor" certification can be gotten just by sitting through a one-day (6-hour) training course lol
mindset is what really matters.
You need to doubt, doubt, and doubt again;
raw and chilled food is genuinely hard to get right.
but this guy's no saint either
Well, if you do a full 360, you end up right back where you started — nothing's actually changed lol
This is the first Plesiomonas bacteria detection in a Tokyo food poisoning case in 24 years —
guess he gets to be the 4th such case nationwide?
"Naru" (to become) is usually used for positive achievements, so Kanio hasn't really "become" anything (wordplay on Komeo's name blended with "kani," meaning crab)
I see right through you (o^O^)シ彡☆
is he even turning a profit?
Didn't he get beaten up badly a while back and had his nose fixed after it got busted up?
Maybe he refused to get pulled into organized crime?
Sounds like a genuinely upstanding guy
given all this, he probably shouldn't be in the food business anymore
Thinking about it rationally, since the number of victims kept climbing,
they must have been reusing something.
That means the pathogen count kept building up.
And yet they insist "nothing like that happened!"
Even if management did give the right instructions,
it means someone down the chain failed to follow them.
Either the people at the top are incompetent, the people at the bottom are,
or both.
It'd be great if he showed how he actually processes the crab.
Traditional trades are learned by watching,
and that's exactly what makes YouTube so good for this.
Under old-school apprenticeships you have to squeeze in learning
between chores —
"watch and learn, steal the technique, don't ask questions!"
and then if you mess up, it's "why didn't you just ask?!"
YouTube cuts out all that wasted friction.
Kids who are good at learning by observation can pick it up there instead.
Background and key points of this story
The “food hygiene supervisor” qualification can be earned with roughly a single day of training, so holding the certificate doesn’t necessarily reflect the real state of hygiene management on-site. Commenters in the thread picked up on exactly this, with many arguing the real problem wasn’t a lack of credentials but practical issues — temperature control and ingredient sourcing — when serving raw and chilled dishes at an outdoor festival. At the same time, Masaru himself reportedly has his own history of falling ill from unusual foods, and some pointed out that critics aren’t necessarily in a position to talk either, so this hasn’t become a simple, one-sided pile-on. The Azabu-Juban Summer Festival is one of Tokyo’s biggest summer festivals, packed with food stalls every year, and a food poisoning outbreak affecting this many people is unusual — attention is now likely to turn to how stall screening and public health authorities respond going forward.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Fisherman YouTuber Furious Over “Chilled Crab Ramen” Komeo Food Poisoning Scandal: “Honestly, I’m Pretty Furious”.”
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