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.
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nothing really wrong to call someone foreigner…
it’s not like white people in america could distinguish the difference between japanese, korean, chinese and etc…
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Did I write that it was wrong for him to call someone a foreigner?
omg getting arrested for 0.7gramms -.-
@james: maybe look understood it like that because you marked fat “He said he purchased the drugs from a foreigner.”
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Isn’t that what you always do when you get busted for drugs to protect your dealer? You say that you bought it of some arab/turkish/black/whatever (depending on where you live in the world) guy on the street because you know the cops will probably believe you if you say something along those lines.
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Thanks for the tip~
Oh wait, shit, I’m in Japan! What am I supposed to say?
“It’s OK, I was just selling them to actors”?
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Damn, he was my best customer!
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i don’t know why it should be a surprise… after all, how many drugs are actually produced in japan anyway? very few i would imagine, apart from a little midnight gardening here and there. cocaine tends to come from south america, heroin from asia, etc. etc. i think it would be foolish to imagine that foreigners control importation/distribution, however. ever heard of the yakuza? it’s quite well known that they control the amphetamines trade in this country, and i doubt that is the only pie they have their fingers in
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Reminds me of my major alchoholic uncle who showed up at Christmas with a big black eye/face. “A bunch of black guys mugged me.”
Yeah, well maybe, whatever.
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Gaijin or Gaikokujin will bring everything bad to japan, it’s cast to us from the second we put our foot on Japanese soil. So really….whatever…
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Care to be just a bit more specific Akasaka-san?
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