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You have to realize that this is a foreign country. Those kinds of antics fly in China and Japan. Over there they don't sue for everything like Americans do. Why? I have no clue.
Either the average Japanese person goes through life with the expectation of being pranked or that was staged to one degree or another.
If it was real, they are awfully good sports about it. I'd be royally pi**ed off.