More than 3,000 cabbages have been stolen from three farms in Ibaraki Prefecture during the past week just before they were ready to be harvested.
Police said 1,200 cabbages, valued at 600,000 yen, were stolen on the night of Dec 17 or early the next morning from a field in Yachiyo town, NHK reported. The grower told police he had left the field at 4:30 p.m. on Dec 17, and noticed the theft around 7:30 a.m. the next day.
On Dec 16, about 1,200 cabbages were stolen from a farm in Koga city. The grower, a man in his 70s, said the cabbages were worth about 375 yen each.
The third theft was discovered on the afternoon of Dec 18, when a grower reported to police that approximately 840 cabbages had been taken from his field in Yuki city. The cabbages were scheduled to be shipped on the 19th.
As there have been a series of cabbage thefts in the prefecture, the police are urging farmers to take measures such as installing security cameras and making regular patrols.
© Japan Today
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sakurasuki
That's worth 1,125,000 Yen, where that thief can store 3000 cabbage?
BigP
The Chinese restaurant near me suddenly started cabbage salad in the set lunch from the usual tofu. Boxes of the stuff stacked in their car park in “Ibaraki”…..
Fighto!
Interesting.
I trust you have reported this?
wallace
Y500/cabbage is expensive.
GBR48
An illicit cabbage trafficking network from Ibaraki to the shady backstreet kimchi dens of Pyongyang?
Nemuitanuki
My cabbages!!!!!!
wallace
Raided by the Cabbage Dolls.
deanzaZZR
I hope he does and his racism is exposed.
Brian Wheway
I suspect there is a veg dealer has already pre ordered them, they will disappear into the food chain quickly
Jay
Ah yes, because noticing theft now magically equals "racism" - classic woke logic, where facts are ignored, and anyone pointing out reality gets hysterically labeled to protect the guilty. Maybe try not to ignore basic common sense instead of crying "racism" every time something offends your fragile narrative.
deanzaZZR
Your logic is broken, friend. BigP suspects a "Chinese restaurant" being involved in the crime because they have some cabbages stacked up in the restaurant. I'm pretty sure most foreigners living in Japan understand that the vast majority of Chinese restaurants in Japan are in fact owned and managed by Japanese. Maybe BigP does not know this.
リッチ
Fishy. 500 yen a cabbage. That’s so expensive and wholesale price? Can’t be more than 50 yen each when you can buy them for 200 yen in the store.
and who can steal that many? Clearly something going on here.
HopeSpringsEternal
More proof cost-of-living crisis due to Yen's loss in purchasing power for almost 5 straight year's fueling crime. Even poor farmers are becoming targets of crime.
Hopefully 2025 sees world rapidly stabilize, currencies can then recover their purchasing power, including Yen!
That said, everyone be sure to eat your cabbage!
Mr Kipling
No one has mentioned that one particular group of oppressed workers from South East Asia have quite a history of fruit and vegetable theft. Not all agricultural thefts are by them but it would a good place to start looking. As has been mentioned, the wholesaler will have been set up beforehand.
Mr Kipling
The police have just arrested Chengqing, 45, and Zhou Chengyi, 36, both from China for this crime.