Several men stormed into a Taiwanese company’s workshop here early Wednesday, attacked an employee and stole 200 kilograms of sea cucumbers worth about 600,000 yen before fleeing, police said.
At about midnight on Wednesday, a group of several men stormed into a Taiwanese company’s workshop in Mori, hit a 28-year-old employee with square logs, sprayed tear gas at him and bound him with adhesive tape, local police said.
Taiwanese firm in Hokkaido robbed of sea cucumbers worth 600,000 yen (Mainichi Shimbun)
I’m guessing “square logs” refers to two-by-fours or some other type of plank. (Clicking the sea-cucumber pic will automagically transport you to the Wikipedia entry on sea cucumbers. There, I learned that the Japanese term for them is namako, or “sea mice,” and that thousands of haiku have been inspired by them.)