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Japanese authorities take a hardline approach to taking something that isn’t yours, no matter how insignificant it might seem.
He probably would have gotten away with it too if he didn’t insist on peeling the darn thing.
Thieves used machinery to steal flowering cherry blossom branches and tree trunks from a park in Osaka Prefecture.
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