Another stimulant-use charge slapped on actress Sakai

Thursday 10th September, 12:33 PM JST

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KitsuneYoukai at 09:48 PM JST - 10th September

getting more ridiculous by the article...
Tosaken at 10:08 PM JST - 10th September

Pick an American or European actress of a like kind & imagine she was arrested for possession in her own country, maybe the media would mention it once or twice, maybe she would go to court (in some European counties possibly not), but all this for being a user? This is madness.

What the police should do is line up all the press people & blood test the lot, & then we would see a change in style to the reports on Sakai-san.
rei307 at 11:04 PM JST - 10th September

I cannot believe that she is STILL in jail! Why don't they try to catch real criminals! Her poor son. I hope he is doing okay.
Memorex at 11:49 PM JST - 10th September

I say so what? So what if she did some ICE or whatever it was. Who cares. Mdeia sensationalism.
noborito at 11:58 PM JST - 10th September

This is typical Japanese beat a horse to death behavior.
northlondon at 12:28 AM JST - 11th September

I feel sorry for Sakai. They are hanging her out to dry like the cowards they are, with some kind of cop revenge against a crime syndicate family. She has been honest and owned-up to everything se did, yet there are still idiots on here who are also sticking the boot in. Her sad little husband was caught with a dealers-load of the stuff in the street and we have not read or heard a jot about him since his initial arrest. The cops here are pathetic, letting stalkers roam around attacking ex-girlfriends and Kyodo News are jumping on the kick-Sakai bandwagon with their sarcy little ending paragraph about Sakai's commericals work as a mother.
northlondon at 12:31 AM JST - 11th September

Is Sakai still in a cell ? Surely not ? Meanwhile Oshio was found with a dead girl in his apartment with drugs in his and her system and they let him out on bail !
Luke2010 at 02:24 AM JST - 11th September

I'm in disbelief you can be treated that way in Japan just for amphetamines' use... Are really amphetamines illegal in Japan? They are present in many prescription drugs so I'm amazed you can be jailed for them. Obviously Japan has so few true criminals so that police can "take care" of "dangerous scum" such as Noriko Sakai...
BrightEyes at 06:16 AM JST - 11th September

Japanese cops are bullies.
thundercat at 07:46 AM JST - 11th September

Has anyone one else noticed that in the media she is no longer 酒井容疑者　(Sakai yougisha = suspect) but 酒井被告　(Sakai hikoku = defendant) while her husband is still just yougisha. Something stinks!
bdiego at 08:15 AM JST - 11th September

Sensationalist media is built around schadenfreude. The jcops though are in another league of corruption and double standards.
amerijap at 09:52 AM JST - 11th September

Sensationalist media is built around schadenfreude. The jcops though are in another league of corruption and double standards.

And the prosecutors who take over the further investigations on her records of drug use since her arrest. They should also be held responsible for tipping off to the media to sensationalize the local news of crime.
NoriPfan at 04:47 PM JST - 11th September

It appears that japanese cops would rather choose the safer path of dealing with "celebrity criminals" instead of dangerous ones with real guns. Their may be alleged connection to yakuza, but it would be interesting if any future arrests would actually tie into this as if it led to them to the true dangerous criminals.
rei307 at 12:20 AM JST - 13th September

And how does the media get their hands on every minute informations!? The "law enforcement" system needs to be fix. It's just not right how they are treating her!
animallover at 02:09 AM JST - 13th September

Much ado about nothing. Sakai did not harm anybody she did harm herself.They are so many criminals on the loose: thieves, children kidnappers, drug dealers, killers... who should get much attention and get arrested.