date:Nov 28, 2019
e in late September.
Even more brazenly, thieves stripped an orchard in Aomori prefecture of 250 apples in the space of a couple of hours in late October, following the theft of more than 500 apples from another nearby orchard just days earlier and the disappearance of 600 bunches of grapes from a vineyard in Tsuruta, also in Aomori prefecture.
The theft of fruit and vegetables has become a serious problem in Japan in recent years, with farming communities that are already struggling with a sh