A 40-year-old Chinese man has been arrested for trying to sell a stuffed panda to Chinese tourists at his house in Ota Ward, Tokyo, in early September, the Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.
Shang Erjiang was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of violating the law for the conservation of endangered species by displaying the 1.5-meter-long stuffed panda for sales purposes, police said. "An acquaintance of mine just left [the panda] with me. I didn't intend to sell it," the man was quoted as telling the police.
The mounted panda--which had real fur on its body except for its face, which had rabbit fur on it--was believed to have been originally owned by a Chinese national who lived in Miyagi Prefecture before returning to China following the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Yomiuri)
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