{"id":34863,"date":"2025-05-11T03:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T03:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/three-chinese-nationals-arrested-in-japan-after-thousands-of-protected-hermit-crabs-found-smuggled-in-suitcases\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T03:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T03:46:23","slug":"three-chinese-nationals-arrested-in-japan-after-thousands-of-protected-hermit-crabs-found-smuggled-in-suitcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/three-chinese-nationals-arrested-in-japan-after-thousands-of-protected-hermit-crabs-found-smuggled-in-suitcases\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Chinese nationals arrested in Japan after thousands of protected hermit crabs found smuggled in suitcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Police on a Japanese holiday island have arrested three Chinese nationals  after thousands of protected hermit crabs were found stuffed into multiple suitcases.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The three suspects \u2013 Liao Zhibin, 24, Song Zhenhao, 26, and Guo Jiawei, 27 \u2013 were found to have 160 kilograms (353 pounds) of the live crustaceans in their possession on Wednesday, according to police on the Amami Islands, near Okinawa.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Police said a hotel worker in Amami, a city on the island of Amami Oshima, alerted environmental authorities after spotting something suspicious about the suitcases the three men had asked hotel staff to watch.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Officers later arrived at the hotel and found the spiral-shelled hermit crabs stuffed into six suitcases, according to police.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            When they returned to the hotel on Wednesday, the three men were arrested for possessing the crustaceans without proper authorization, Kyodo News reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            It\u2019s unknown why the three men were transporting the crustaceans.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The Amami archipelago, off southwestern Kyushu and just north of Okinawa, is a popular tourist destination and known to be home to a diverse array of native plants and animals.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police on a Japanese holiday island have arrested three Chinese nationals after thousands of protected hermit crabs were found stuffed into multiple suitcases. The three suspects \u2013 Liao Zhibin, 24, Song Zhenhao, 26, and Guo Jiawei, 27 \u2013 were found to have 160 kilograms (353 pounds) of the live crustaceans in their possession on Wednesday, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}