3 Japanese, 5 foreigners arrested for cocaine smuggling

Police said the gang leader, two other Japanese men and five foreigners of Greek, Italian and Turkish nationalities, were arrested.

So anti social force still exist and well in Japan, be careful people.

Wow, that’s a lot.

Evil doers who must be punished severely by the law.

Multiculturalism does work in Japan!

That would have been a Big Payday. Don't use drugs in Japan.

I see three suspended or weak sentences and five life sentences

Multiculturalism does work in Japan!

conflation award of the week. Have to ask the underlying point?

Foreigners bad narrative pukey? you there?

A very large amount. Very long prison sentences 20 years plus.

I am sure those foreigners are going to be locked up for a good long while and their lives behind bars will be a memorable one in and not in a good way. Shaved heads, no smoking and the list goes on and there are no visitors permitted beyond immediate family and their government staff.

Drugs do not pay.

Tourism at its finest.!.

make everything legal and tax it, e.g., alcohol, cigarettes, etc.

if people ruin their lives with it, it’s darwin in action.

multiple experiments with rats show that when in a simple cage and two choices of water or water with heroin in it, they all drank the heroin water until they killed themselves,

when the cage had things for them to do, run, play, solves mazes, they all drank the regular water and thrived.

when people have jobs that organize their lives, have things to do for fun and that interest them, the demand for drugs and alcohol drops.

Send them to Indonesia, they'll handle them.

let them make sand for the rest of their lives

If japan don't get a handle on this and we are in for a very rough ride, Japan has been extremely good at controlling it borders and I hope it continues to do so.

Steven - they are hardly likely to be tourists. They will be foreigners who live here, like us.

WoodyLee - What does Indonesia have to do with it? Strange comment.

Wow, that's a pretty big haul. You have to wonder though, how much actually does get through...

No Australians thankfully.

178 kilograms is almost nothing compared to the shipments they catch in South America and the United States..

Anyway, that people deserve to rot in jail or death penalty..

Salarymen have a fulfilling life?

salarymen are less and less and younger people are opting for startups, which have increased 10x in the last decade.

And also comments that they are too thick to understand.

Why not import to countries where officials can be bribed ?

That's my advice to any novice smugglers out there.

Why don't they prosecute the captain of the foreign ship? Surely he's one of the people who knows what the content was.

Yes you would have thought that the foreign ship would have been arrested and the captain/crew also arrested.

Saying that, it's possible that the 5 foreign people arrested were the foreign ship's crew. In that case the ship would have been arrested too.

The 3 Japanese being onboard Kashiwagi's pleasure boat. Maybe.

Tokyoliving - death penalty for drug trafficking?

This is Japan, not Singapore, Malaysia or Saudi Arabia.

Do you have any knowledge of the law in this country?

Is my math correct? At the above listed "street price", a single kilogram of coke successfully smuggled into Japan would earn (at 155 JPN/1USD) over 160,000 USD?? That would be, on average, over FIVE TIMES more lucrative than a kilo of coke smuggled into Europe or North America.

If true, one should expect many, many, MANY more attempts to cash in on this particularly lucrative, er..."yen carry trade". Demand creates supply, and the uber high prices people here are willing to pay will drive even more to try their luck.

Stewart Gale

Tokyoliving - death penalty for drug trafficking?

According to the bulk of his comments, every crime deserves the death penalty, apparently.

Somebody dropped a dime on this crew. How else would the CG have known exactly where to look?