Pear varieties harvested in autumn ... At the Shinshu Uchiyama Noen farm located in the city of Suzaka, about two tons of Queen Rouge were cultivated this year, but about half remained whitish.

SAITAMA--Saitama prefectural police on Jan. 19 rearrested two former technical intern trainees from Vietnam on suspicion of stealing more than 180 pears from a farm in Kamikawa, Saitama Prefecture.