Junior high school vice head arrested for possessing stimulant drugs

Tuesday 21st July, 11:59 AM JST

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chotto at 02:38 PM JST - 21st July

Clearly, the "No Drug" posters aren't working.
Disillusioned at 03:00 PM JST - 21st July

Anybody care to speculate what the drug is? He's shooting it up, so is it smack or speed? I can't imagine him being able to act normally if he was shooting smack although, this is Japan. What is normal? :P
Altria at 03:14 PM JST - 21st July

All those years of New Horizon must have finally got to him.
kirakira25 at 07:18 PM JST - 21st July

This is just the one that got caught. Quite honestly, I would put money on half the teachers needing some form of "assistance" to get through the day!
nandakandamanda at 07:25 PM JST - 21st July

Disillusioned, the title 'stimulant drug' is a translation of the Japanese 'Kakuseizai', (meth)amphetamine. Comparatively popular in Japan, mostly smuggled in by the big Y. (Heroin is by comparison almost non-existent here.)
tamesu at 08:45 PM JST - 21st July

This is just the one that got caught. Quite honestly, I would put money on half the teachers needing some form of "assistance" to get through the day!

I agree, see http://www.debito.org/japaneseonly.html and http://www.debito.org/?pageid=1956 and http://www.debito.org/?pageid=582
BurakuminDes at 10:35 PM JST - 21st July

Doesn't surprise me: most Japanese teachers you meet seem to be high on something, they usually display weird personalities, I'd imagine many of them are shooting smack, smoking crack, taking crystal meth etc.
usaexpat at 11:05 PM JST - 21st July

So it's a stimulant drug and he's shooting it up? By the time someone progresses from snorting or smoking or taking pills to shooting up I would think they would have a hard time keeping it together to go to work and such. Injectable drugs usually are a little more than casual use.
BurakuminDes at 11:59 PM JST - 21st July

That was an interesting article Womanforwomen. The scariest thing in that, was that in Japanese Pharmacies, Syringes are NOT available! If that is still the case, that is absolute madness in public health policy...in a decade or so Japanese will be dropping like flies with Hep B/C acquired through the use of dirty needles due to policy makers in Japan having their head in the sand over drugs.

Indeed, Japan is the Speed-injecting country...
womanforwomen at 12:15 AM JST - 22nd July

The amphetamines or shabu is the cause for some Jmen not being able to perform well... and so they resort to other forms of acts to satisfy their need. Without the stimulant they shrivel and become weak.
MapleG at 12:37 AM JST - 22nd July

Well he was the "Vice" head.
WMD at 06:51 AM JST - 22nd July

anyone that is a school teacher must become mentally ill to a certain extent as they have to deal with kids all day long. So it's not surprising that that they need to take drugs, including cancer sticks and alcohol, to survive. Who would want to be a teacher facing kids all day?? Depressing.
Disillusioned at 08:31 AM JST - 22nd July

nandakandamanda - (Heroin is by comparison almost non-existent here.)

That's what you think.
elbudamexicano at 01:43 PM JST - 22nd July

Wow! Japan is going down the same road as back home in the good ol USA! Just say no to drugs?
womanforwomen at 04:17 PM JST - 22nd July

Saw the news item on NHK. We are going to hear more of this kind of news as some people are desperate to make money. The drug use is a national problem and surprisingly all layers of society in Jland use drugs. 1-2 million users and 15000-20000 arrests are estimated according to reliable sources.

Surprising that with all the tight custom control procedures how the drug is smuggled in from the Philippines and China.