{"id":4109,"date":"2009-08-11T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2009-08-11T00:57:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T15:57:35","slug":"yomiuri-sankei-fnn-sakai-norikos-husband-fingers-nj-dealers-as-source-of-their-drug-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4109","title":{"rendered":"Yomiuri, Sankei, FNN: Sakai Noriko’s husband fingers NJ dealers as source of their drug habit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Handbook<\/a>\"\\\"<\/a>\"Foreign<\/a>\"\\\"<\/a>\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\"<\/a>\"JAPANESE<\/a>\"sourstrawberriesavatar\"<\/a>UPDATES ON TWITTER: arudoudebito<\/p>\n

Hi Blog. \u00a0It’s all over the news these days, probably receiving more press than even when Michael Jackson died. \u00a0Celebrity Sakai Noriko (and her husband)’s arrest for drug use. \u00a0The word “junkie” has certainly entered the lexicon.<\/p>\n

The latest: \u00a0Despite Noriko’s yakuza connections, her husband is saying foreigners supplied their drug habits.<\/p>\n

Turning the keyboard to some concerned NJ residents of Japan, who poignantly foresee not only hypocrisy, but a reinforced spate of NJ crackdowns for drugs<\/a>. \u00a0Anonymized. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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FIRST COMMENTER<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Debito,\u00a0With all of the Sakai NoriP news going on, the Yomiuri was quick on\u00a0the uptake to speculate that foreigners may be the source for drugs:<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/national\/news\/20090808-OYT1T01095.htm<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Off topic: I found this sentence to be particularly flawed:
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Now just wait for it… as we all knew would be coming, her husband\u00a0Takas\u014d puts the blame on foreigners for the drugs:<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.fnn-news.com\/news\/headlines\/articles\/CONN00160724.html
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It’s such a familiar story, so I can’t say that I am surprised in the\u00a0least. Hopefully it doesn’t lead to increased racial profiling<\/a> or another\u00a0wave of urine tests<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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SECOND COMMENTER<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

NHK news reported this evening that her husband is telling the police his source of stimulant drugs was a “gaikokujin.” I’ve seen it in several other places on the TV news.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

It might even be true, but these guys are just agents of the yakuza who assume the risks of dealing with the end-users. I also fail to understand why an unproven gaikokujin connection makes it any different from buying it from a Japanese. What it does do is get police off the hook about having to track down and arrest the source of the man’s drugs. In other words, a cop-out. Sheeesh….<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nhttp:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/affairs\/crime\/090810\/crm0908101928022-n1.htm<\/a>
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\nIranian drug dealers operating in upper-class Tokyo neighborhoods
\nTokyo, Saturday, 1 November. 2008 \/PanOrient News<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.panorientnews.com\/en\/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=50<\/a>
\nThe shocking photo, taken from a security camera on a Tokyo street in broad daylight, shows a tall man of middle eastern origin passing a white plastic bag to a young Japanese woman.<\/p>\n

According to the Drug Control Department of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, which supplied the photograph, the transaction took place on the street in Takanawa — one of Tokyo’s most affluent neighborhoods. It was one of three exclusive residential districts, along with Shirokane and Azabu, said to have been targeted by Iranian drug dealers about one year ago.<\/p>\n

Evening tabloid Nikkan Gendai (Nov. 1) reports that the dealers supplied stimulants drugs to as many as 20,000 users, which brought them revenues upwards of 20 million Japanese yen a month.<\/p>\n

The drug buyers were not necessarily residents of the neighborhoods where the dealers operated, but went there to seek the drugs because police patrols in Shibuya and other areas frequented by young people had driven foreign dealers off the street.<\/p>\n

Aside from audacity of openly engaging in drug transactions on the street in affluent neighborhoods during daylight hours, the extent of demand for drugs made the revelations doubly shocking.<\/p>\n

“The group was organized into 10 teams, who supplied drugs to Tokyo-area users who numbered upwards of one hundred thousand,” Katsuhiro Sakata, a investigator at the Health Ministry, is quoted as saying. “Among the users were men who could no longer hold down jobs at their companies because of their addition, as well as many full-time housewives.<\/p>\n

“Japanese dealer typically only sell to regular customers, but the Iranians were out to make money, so they would sell their stuff to anyone. That’s how they expanded their business.”<\/p>\n

Yukio Murakami, a freelance journalist, tells Nikkan Gendai that the dealers carefully staked out their sales territory.<\/p>\n

“From about four years ago, they moved into Jiyugaoka, a trendy district in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward,” says Murakami. “They also operated unobtrusively in small stations along the Tokyu Ikegami line.”<\/p>\n

Communicating with customers via sites on the Internet, the dealers used specialized jargon, \u00a0referring to their goods as “udon” (a type of wheat noodle) or “melanin” (skin pigmentation).<\/p>\n

“Stimulants are the drug of choice for poor people,” says Murakami. “Housewives may become acquainted with dealers via ‘encounter’ sites on the Web, and become addicted. In many cases their craving drives them to prostitution. Eventually they may lose their sanity and turn to crime, even murder.”<\/p>\n

A Iranian man in his early forties going by the name of Abolfazl Zarbali, who was arrested last July, allegedly told authorities he has been coming to Japan to deal drugs for the past 12 years. Police are continuing their crackdown.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

=PanOrient News<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s all over the news these days, probably receiving more press than even when Michael Jackson died. Celebrity Sakai Noriko (and her husband)’s arrest for drug use. The word “junkie” has certainly entered the lexicon.<\/p>\n

The latest: Despite Noriko’s yakuza connections, her husband is saying foreigners supplied their drug habits.<\/p>\n

Turning the keyboard to some concerned NJ residents of Japan, who poignantly foresee not only hypocrisy, but a reinforced spate of NJ crackdowns for drugs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}