In recent years, Japan’s bonsai culture has spread around the world, while at the same time bonki, the dedicated pots in which bonsai are planted, have also begun to draw note. Udei dark clay unglazed ...

Security cameras showed two men getting out of a vehicle in the rain, entering Warabi-en and walking out with bonsai trees in their hands. Imai said 24 pots, worth 7 million yen ($49,000 ...