{"id":54646,"date":"2023-04-26T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T04:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/26\/poached-sea-cucumber-japan-police-arrest-five-for-stealing-600kg-of-the-coveted-creature"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T04:58:16","slug":"poached-sea-cucumber-japan-police-arrest-five-for-stealing-600kg-of-the-coveted-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54646","title":{"rendered":"Poached sea cucumber: Japan police arrest five for stealing 600kg of the coveted creature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s criminal syndicates have increasingly targeted the marine animal which is considered an expensive delicacy<\/p>\n<p>Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have arrested several people for allegedly poaching a huge haul of sea cucumbers \u2013 an unsightly but expensive delicacy that has attracted the attention of the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/17\/going-straight-the-yakuza-gangster-who-swapped-the-underworld-for-udon\">crime syndicates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The five men were arrested for stealing more than 600kg of the marine creates in seas off Fukuoka, south-east Japan, in what local media are calling one of the largest sea cucumber-poaching incidents since the echinoderms achieved coveted status among criminals several years ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/26\/poached-sea-cucumber-japan-police-arrest-five-for-stealing-600kg-of-the-coveted-creature\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s criminal syndicates have increasingly targeted the marine animal which is considered an expensive delicacyPolice in Japan have arrested several people for allegedly poaching a huge haul of sea cucumbers \u2013 an unsightly but expensive delicacy tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54647,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54646\/revisions\/54647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}