Actor Akira Akasaka: Some Gaijin Sold Me Drugs
The sentencing of actor Akira Akasaka for drug-related charges was a big story yesterday, and one has to wonder if the new immigration system might have received a little more coverage if this celebrity scandal hadn’t occurred. Not having been a fan of Akasaka, the exhaustive attention given to his sentencing was pretty boring for me. The only interesting aspect of the story for me was the mention of a foreigner:
Akasaka was caught possessing 0.7 grams of stimulants on a street in the Ikebukuro district of downtown Tokyo in the predawn hours of Oct. 28, according to the ruling.
Akasaka made his show business debut in the late 1980s as a member of Hikaru Genji, a popular teenage singing group on roller skates. He said he purchased the drugs from a foreigner.
