Poignant plea after Japanese bonsai burglary

TOKYO: A Japanese cultivator of bonsai trees appealed on Tuesday for the thieves who made off with his expensive potted plants to take good care of them. Seiji Iimura, a fifth-generation bonsai cultivator in Kawaguchi, said seven tiny trees worth over seven million yen — including a 400-year-old gnarled juniper — stolen from his garden were his “family treasure”. “It’s something I would never sell even if I got 10 million yen ($90,000),” he said. AFP

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