Japantown leaders call for vandalized cherry blossom trees to be replaced Published article SAN FRANCISCO - 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 on Tuesday called for the trees to be replaced. On Jan. 5, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California took to Facebook 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. Surveillance footage shows the vandals destroying the tree over a period of three days, starting on New Year's Day, when the JCCCNC was closed. Police have said they're investigating the vandalism.