Two men hold 1,083 cannabis plants in a Hidaka warehouse, Hokkaido's biggest
Hokkaido police re-arrested two 30-year-old Sapporo men on 11 August 2026 for profit-motivated cultivation of 1,083 cannabis plants in a former factory in Hidaka town, a seizure the police said was the largest from a single building in Hokkaido, worth about 100 million yen at street prices.
🇯🇵 Hidaka town, Hidaka District, Hokkaido · Japan
- Arrested
- 2
- Plants destroyed
- 1,083
- Value (official estimate)
- JPY 100,000,000
Officers of the Hokkaido Police Organised Crime Countermeasures Section and Sapporo Nishi police
station re-arrested two unemployed 30-year-old men from Higashi ward, Sapporo, on 11 August 2026,
suspecting them of cultivating 1,083 cannabis plants for profit in a former factory building in
Hidaka town, Hidaka District.[1][2]
The police put the drugs’ terminal street value at about 100 million yen and said it was the
largest cannabis plant seizure from a single building anywhere in Hokkaido; the two, Renman Nakagawa
and Yusuke Sato, had earlier in July been arrested on suspicion of possessing about 330 grams of
dried cannabis for profit.[1][2] The
suspicion is of profit-motivated cultivation under the Cannabis Cultivation Regulation Act; police
did not say whether the men admit or deny the charges and are treating the case as organised
cultivation and distribution.[1][2]
Sources
- 末端価格1億円相当の大麻草1083株を営利目的で栽培 30歳無職男ら2人を逮捕 1つの建物内で押収した大麻草としては道内で過去最大の量＜北海道日高町＞. FNN Prime Online (Hokkaido Bunka Television), 11 August 2026. In Japanese. Archived copy.
- 北海道内最多1083株の大麻押収、1億円相当 日高の工場跡 営利栽培の疑い、札幌の男2人再逮捕. Hokkaido Shimbun, 11 August 2026. In Japanese.
Open questions the AI reported
- The sources give no street address in Hidaka; the pin is at the town centre.
- Police did not say whether the two suspects admit or deny the charges, and the plants' fate after seizure was not reported.
- The Hokkaido Shimbun's picture of the former factory site is behind a subscription wall, so its direct address could not be recorded here.
