{"id":20088,"date":"2025-10-23T20:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20088\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:28:31","slug":"beloved-statue-gifted-to-san-jose-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20088\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beloved\u2019 statue gifted to San Jose stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KRON;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KRON<\/a>) \u2014 A \u201cbeloved\u201d statue that was a gift to the city of San Jose from its sister-city, Okayama, Japan, was sawn off where it stood and stolen, city officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The statue in Guadalupe River Park, along with its bronze plaque, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/etc.usf.edu\/lit2go\/72\/japanese-fairy-tales\/4845\/momotaro-or-the-story-of-the-son-of-a-peach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:folklore story of Momotaro;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">folklore story of Momotaro<\/a>. It depicts a young boy with a pheasant on his shoulder, a dog and a monkey. It was gifted by Okayama to San Jose in 1993.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"(Photo: City of San Jose)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/07bd61bb17feb2268666fff38fc4c79c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo: City of San Jose)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City officials called the piece \u201can important and beloved part of our community.\u201d San Jose established its sister-city partnership with Okayama in 1957, according to the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information on its theft or its current whereabouts is asked to call the San Jose Police Department at 408-277-8900.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KRON) \u2014 A \u201cbeloved\u201d statue that was a gift to the city of San Jose from its sister-city,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[14702,5343,15613,6763,15612,88,90,89,2125,15615],"class_list":["post-20088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-city-of-san-jose","tag-city-officials","tag-guadalupe-river-park","tag-japan","tag-okayama","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police-department","tag-sister-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}