Three arrested in Japan over suitcases stuffed with hermit crabs


TOKYO: Three Chinese men were arrested in Japan after their rustling suitcases alerted hotel staff to the thousands of protected hermit crabs inside, police said on Thursday (May 8).

A hotel worker in Amami City, on one of the archipelago's southwestern subtropical islands, reported the suspected crime to environmental authorities on Tuesday.

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