Japantown leaders call for replacement of vandalized cherry blossom trees

A week after cherry blossom trees in San Francisco’s Japantown were found vandalized, Supervisor Dean Preston and leaders from the city’s Japanese community have called for the trees to be replaced.

The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California took to Facebook on Jan. 5 to report that two trees outside their office, located in the 1800 block of Sutter Street, had been completely stripped of their branches, with just the trees’ trunks left standing.