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  BuddhismTech at 11:57 AM JST - 16th August

  -Klein2, thanks for your comments. They helped me to think about Sakai's circumstance twice.

  -therealmusashi, I just disagree with your comment. I don't think that Sakai would be crazy enough to act alone in buying drugs from a foreigner.

  Noriko Sakai did a right thing. We all should support her. Sakai was doing everything to get all of her family members (her son, brother and husband) to get out of the yakuza organization (Yamaguchi-gumi) forever. She did not want to see that they would be sucked further into Yamaguchi-gumi's black hole and was very worrisome about her son's future.

  If I guess right, I think that Sakai was involved in stealthily helping the Tokyo police to arrest her brother first. Her brother was just a lower priority to her because he wasn't her husband. Her brother's arrest was just a "preparation" leading to a final and huge event ahead. That would be Sakai's husband a few weeks later. Sakai was already readying and knowing about the serious consequence beforehand, in case if her husband became suspicious of Sakai's plot after he was arrested. Very indeed, husband felt so betrayed that he would tell the police about his wife's drug using. He would NOT tell the police about his wife if he did NOT suspect that his wife, as an unidentified person (or her lackey, like her friend?) was aiding the police and orchestrating the major event. This is one evidence.

  Like Sakai said, it was her husband who encouraged her to take some drugs. We need to trust her. She is just a woman. A woman is more likely to tell truth than a man, except when she is in a very difficult situation and willing to tell a lie to protect her family.

  Sadly, I think that Sakai's brother and husband are less likely to forgive her than her fans because of betraying. She can always get her brother and husband back after they serve their sentences. No problem. Patience does pay. Sakai certainly knows what is best for her family. All of Japanese people and companies all should forgive and support her totally and blame her husband and brother for pulling her into an extremely difficult and complicated situation. The husband and brother should learn a lesson not to act carelessly, while their female relative is a high profile person.

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  BuddhismTech at 01:42 PM JST - 16th August

  Japan Probe indicated that Noriko Sakai had some connection with a gang, probably for years. Her father was a yakuza boss. The gang business continued through her younger brother. Maybe that must be Kokusui-kai, a Tokyo-based yakuza organization with 500 members. It is known as a wealthy and successful gang controlling Tokyo's Ginza district. It was recently absorbed by the Kansai-based Yamaguchi-gumi in August 2005. Its godfather was Kenichi Shinoda. He declared an expansionist policy by making inroads into Tokyo.

  Sources: Japan Probe and Wikipedia

  I think that the conflict started when Sakai's brother and husband became drug addicts. Sakai had to do something to solve the problem. Did she? Or did the Tokyo police did all by themselves? I don't know. We will have to wait until more information comes out.

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  BuddhismTech at 11:47 PM JST - 16th August

  Conclusively, I am suggesting that Japan should destroy Yamaguchi-gumi (one of the largest organizations in the world) completely for ruining Noriko Sakai's life and her family. Noriko Sakai should receive a full pardon from her society. It is Japan's fault for leaving many yakuza organizations alone since the Edo period.

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  nemoflow at 01:47 AM JST - 17th August

  "Conclusively, I am suggesting that Japan should destroy Yamaguchi-gumi (one of the largest organizations in the world) completely for ruining Noriko Sakai's life and her family. Noriko Sakai should receive a full pardon from her society. It is Japan's fault for leaving many yakuza organizations alone since the Edo period."

  Haha, get real.

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  Klein2 at 10:34 AM JST - 17th August

  Yes. Buddhism tech. It all fits perfectly.

  Looking across the Pacific, NoriP sees Lindsey Lohan, Vanessa Hudgens, Britney Spears and J. Simpson riding wave after wave of scandal fame. Paris Hilton runs 15 business and NoriP is what... a DJ in a Roppongi Club?

  So her brother gets arrested. Probably she knew her brother would rat out her husband, so she makes a plan with her husband that he will implicate her in THIS and THAT, but no more. She arranges to have exactly 0.0008 grams of speed in a little bit of foil, and then disappears.

  She waits until the police and press get rabid. OH Just before OBON, so that people will be able to read about her escapades for a whole week in all the weekly magazines.

  The police find the foil, and will prosecute her, but it is such a small amount, and she seems like such a sweet person. Police will have no other evidence. She will either plead guilty and receive a very light sentence, or she will fight it and maybe win. Her husband will recant. She will say that she does not know where the speed came from. She confessed because she was intimidated, etc. She might go into rehab.

  She is a better surfer than her husband. As Paris Hilton did, she will surf the waves of scandal and get so much more publicity than she could ever have had if she had married, say, Sanma.

  Her husband will go to jail, probably, but she will pay for his lawyers, and he was headed there anyway. This way, when he gets out, he will have millions and millions, and at least one book deal. Sure beats suburbia with the ball and chain and one or two brats.

  I for one am NOT looking forward to a New Year's holiday of news countdowns all ending up with her as the number one story of the year. Her suspended album will be released right about then, I imagine.

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  BuddhismTech at 10:21 PM JST - 17th August

  Pretty good comment, klein2

  I am sure that you know about her more than I. This concludes the thread discussion. Thanks.

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  BuddhismTech at 11:02 PM JST - 17th August

  So, Nori-P and her family probably all orchestrated together for money and profit. So, it probably means that Nor-P does not mind being a yakuza member at all. It seems like she does not really try to find a way to escape Yamaguchi-gumi. She just seeks for more money through orchestration.

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  BuddhismTech at 06:56 AM JST - 18th August

  Klein2, I have thought about the suspended album which you mentioned for a long time and hesitated to reply something referring to that. But now I decide that I am going to do it. Well, I confess that I will never have a chance to clearly listen to and understand it and any other song Noriko Sakai had ever created, maybe for the rest of my life.

  I am much different than you would expect and anticipate. I am a deaf(since birth) man. I only know American Sign Language, understand between 10 to 20 different sounds with a hearing aid, and live in the southeast of the U.S. all of my life. But I know a great deal about Japan through renting countless DVDs from Netflix and Cinflix. I even exchanged emails with a former female Japanese epal (she was not deaf) for five years.

  Nevertheless, very ironically as a deaf person myself, my favorite Japanese actor is Shintaro Katsu who starred in "Zatoichi" television series and movies, as a blind man with super-hearing fighting against the samurais and yakuzas. I admire him more than all of other American and international actors.

  Ok, it seems like my destiny was to scope out Sakai's recent adventure. I can't help but it looks like my destiny and Sakai's destiny in the psychic universe are related, because yesterday, with a research, I learned that Noriko Sakai once played a deaf and mute girl in a movie in 1990s. She must know sign language (Japanese Sign Language?). Interesting and surprising. I just knew very little about her but watching her in "Ju-on: The Grudge 2" some months or years ago.

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  therealmusashi at 07:14 AM JST - 18th August

  @ BuddhismTech - there's nothing really disagree with, about my previous post. I said I predicted foreigners would get the blame (for selling them drugs), and they have. That's what's being reported as fact, at this point. If you want to dispute whether or not Takaso actually said it (and NoriP corroborated), then that's a different argument entirely.

  Cheers

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  BuddhismTech at 07:37 AM JST - 18th August

  Well, as far as I have heard on Internet saying that some yakauza organizations were using the foreigners (maybe mostly Iranians) to sell drugs on large cities' streets. Maybe this is a foreigner's problem, risk, liability, burden, and consequence in Japan, not a yakuza organization's.

  Moderator: All readers back on topic please. Posts that do not refer to Sakai will be removed.

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  BuddhismTech at 12:31 PM JST - 18th August

  therealmusashi,

  At the first time, when I read your comment about potentality of Sakai's confession on her drug purchase from a foreigner, I thought that it would be ridiculous. But later, I realized that it could be a great importance. Very good!

  This was what Sakai, her husband, and brother all wanted Japanese to believe that it was all foreigners' responsibilities for selling drugs. Since they are potential members of Yamaguchi-gumi, they did not want the Tokyo police to "bother" their yakuza organization. Instead, they would point at the foreigners to turn them into the scapegoats (foreigners take Yamaguchi-gumi's place to take blames). Sakai and her team wanted Japan to overlook (ignore) their yakuza organization.

  Sakai, her husband, and brother were probably all accomplices in planning to stage the arresting show and prepare the media coup to greatly shock Japan. Maybe, it could be someone in the Tokyo police department who had a secret connection with Yamaguchi-gumi and helped arranging the fake arrests. This is called "publicity stunt", used to boost Sakai's popularity and the public's interest in her darker side. Blaming on the foreigners would be their easiest jobs. Next step is to get out of the police department, jail(?), and court. This would be tough, unless they have money to afford one of Japan's best lawyers.

  If the world is full of "honest" people, Sakai and her accomplices would admit that it was their yakuza organization's fault for selling drugs to them domestically. Foreigners were just Yamaguchi-gumi's "lackeys". Without a yakuza organization's help, foreigners would not able to enter Japan and know where to sell drugs.

  I can guarantee that everything will be different after Sakai's release. After she is out, she may think about doing things differently, maybe a little unethically, to keep raking profit. Playing nice repeatedly for many years becomes too boring, dull, and difficult for Sakai to maintain. It is time for Sakai to change her way to alleviate her tension and pressure. This is completely Sakai's world, no one else's!

  Buddhism accurately mentions that everything is impermanent and changing everyday.

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  Mittsu at 12:40 PM JST - 18th August

  Buddhism, lots ofn theories in your messages but not a lot of fact. This story has followed a pretty typical course for Japanese scandal.....

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  womanforwomen at 01:47 PM JST - 18th August

  BuddhismTech, I wanted to put Sakai in the good picture frame too. But realised it was much more than what the people read in the media. It looks like for materialistic pursuits she resorted to some cheap ways of achieving it. She was living with her son, her husband and his mistress under one roof. To me it means that she has failed as a mother and her sense of responsibilty and has ruined something good for herself.

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  BuddhismTech at 11:54 PM JST - 18th August

  Mittsu,

  You are very correct. I strongly agree with you. Nothing but theories. I want all of my comments to be treated theories rather than proofs. I am a honest person myself and not a tabloid writer. Thank you very much. Many times, I guess wrong.

  womanforwomen,

  I sympathy with you. Let hope that my comments will not become true. I hope. I think that Japanese are too sensitive to Sakai's little tattoo. In America, so many women, even mothers, now have some tattoos, not like 20 years ago when almost no one had it. Entertainment and media are becoming uglier and crazier as time passes. Maybe they experiment to keep getting money. Blame them. But also blame ourselves because we don't know how to cling to our boredom and spend more time meditating. We need to learn how to avoid bad things.

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  anon99 at 06:48 AM JST - 13th October

  Thanks to Klein2 and Buddhismtech for the in-depth speculation. Definitely this mess with this woman is not as straight-forward as expected...

  Wait... Doesn't her name... mean Child of Law/Order? Now that's ironic.

  According to web sources, her forename was derived from Buddha speak meaning "heading to the right track" (Chinese: "步向正道"). If Klein2's and Buddhismtech's theories were indeed true, than it would be VERY ironic. Say, heading to the right track via under-the-table means, not limited to, say, counterviolence?? Well things are getting really shadowy here...!!

  In other words, "give a little, take a little" is NOT a description of her actions, EVER!!

  @BuddhismTech: at one point I wonder what your position is on her, because her life and demeanor has been so associated to all things Buddha (eg. ankle lotus tattoo). Then I searched "impermanence" (as you've suggested) and learn about the three marks of existence... I have a feeling that she might be following this ideology too at some point. Which makes me wonder, are you on the same side (speaking for her), or are you speaking against her (since you were presenting this conspiracy)? Well, I hope you're in the latter -- which is my side -- and I hope your comments would materialize some day!!

  Sorry folks, but with a woman this unpredictible, it would be better to assume her guilty (of all her actions, not limited to the drug bust, but also the hidden agenda) until proven innocent.

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