By Chiu Chun-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerA man suspected of stealing valuable artifacts from the Eikichi Iso Memorial House in Taipei was apprehended on Tuesday, police said. The site, on a National Taiwan University (NTU) farm, was previously the workshop of Eikichi Iso, a Japanese agronomist from the Japanese colonial era who was credited for creating Penglai rice, a variety that is still cultivated today. Police named Song Lan-tien (宋藍田), 41, as the suspect, saying he had confessed to the crime following his apprehension, and that they had found the stolen items in a vehicle. Song was quoted as telling the police that at 4am on Aug. 10, he was cycling in the neighborhood and saw the Eikichi Iso Memorial House was poorly secured. All the stolen items were recovered, they said.

Source: Taipei Times September 08, 2016 15:56 UTC