In the West you might scan your tea leaves for a peek at what the future may hold, but in Japan you are more likely to grab your chopsticks (OK, mouse) for the latest craze -- sushi fortunetelling.
Net surfers (at the last count 2.5 million) are bombarding a site that promises to sum up your personality and give clues to what life holds in store simply through your choice of sushi.
Way back in the '60s, Hachiro Asano, a Waseda graduate, combined psychology and palmistry to publish the bestseller, "Teso-jutsu." Now, through a personality test he developed from his research into the favorite sushi of 1,500 people he quizzed, he is serving up kaiten-zushi fortunetelling. The system promises to accurately pinpoint your personality and tell your fortune from your five sushi choices by taking into account their color, shape, taste and the order in which you select them. It's very simple. Access the virtual kaiten-zushi site (kodansha.cplaza.ne.jp/hot/entertainment/2000_01_12_1/index.html). All you have to do is pick your favorites from the 12 types of sushi making the rounds; anago (sea eel), tamago (egg), natto (fermented soybeans), ebi (shrimp), ikura (salmon roe), kyuri (cucumber), toro (fatty tuna), uni (sea urchin), maguro (lean tuna), ika (squid), kohada (punctatus) and awabi (abalone).