Noriko Sakai

Traces of stimulants detected in hair sample from actress Sakai

Thursday 20th August, 05:27 AM JST

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womanforwomen at 12:27 PM JST - 20th August

many things are to be done/changed in Japan starting by the mentalities!!!

in only Japan? or the world?
Damien15 at 02:03 PM JST - 20th August

Seeing all these primitive things happening all around the world makes me think that I was born too early. This has to change and later generations will call us savage for doing things like this. Taking a perfectly functioning member of the society and crucifying her for something so insignificant like this. Ruining her life, career and embarrassment she cannot forget the rest of her life. I rather be dead than to be in her situation. I wish I was born 100 years later. I hope things will be better by then.
Richard_III at 04:12 PM JST - 20th August

I wish I was born 100 years later. I hope things will be better by then.

Japan will still be the same.
Honne at 02:26 AM JST - 21st August

Taking a perfectly functioning member of the society and crucifying her for something so insignificant like this.

Japan is as Japan does. Deru kui wa utareru should ring a bell. Most everything is highly structured which is why it should not be surprising that things are usually black and white (no gray). The Japanese have been doing it (piling on, ostracizing, murahachibu, whatever you want to call it) for ages and aren't going to change the way their society works. The shoganai mentality applies here. This is what many thickheaded gaijin cannot grok; the Japanese are not going to change for anyone.
Sammi33 at 07:17 AM JST - 21st August

Enough. She's a drug addict and she lied and ran from the police and tried to cover it up and failed miserably. It should be left to the courts to decide her fate, get it off the TV already.
sfjp330 at 08:29 AM JST - 21st August

Who released the details of police investigation "traces of stimulants found in her hair" to the media? This is still under investigation and and they convict her in a news media? What a joke to Tokyo police department.
timorborder at 10:28 AM JST - 21st August

Issues of guilt aside (she is as guilty as sin and should get life imprisonment), this whole affair shows up the sordid relationship that exists between the police (the National Police Agency) and those lick spittles of the mass media. The whole deal is like this, the cops get an easy ride from the media in return for feeding tidbits of information regarding ongoing investigations. This leads to complacency among the cops because they are not under the hammer of the media, it also leads to complacency among the media because they are spoon fed facts by the police.

Anyway, Sakai will join the members of the walking dead. She has lied left, right and center about her "habit" and about the fact that her brother and father were both card-carrying members of the mob. For those who have fantasized in the past about her, sooner or later she is going to have to start making DVDs to support herself.
gogogo at 10:33 AM JST - 21st August

sfjp330: The Japanese police say anything to the media, right, wrong even their thoughts and assumptions... they do it in hopes for a confession from the guilty party via a public shaming.
tigris at 10:44 AM JST - 21st August

should get life lifeimprisonment

Miniscule amounts were found by the J police after trying really really hard -after spending more money, time, attention and resources than on any gaijin homicide. She is a first time offender. A casual user (proven with the hair sample), not a dealer, murderer or anybody seriously compromising Japan's public safety. Timorborder, you make yourself guilty of running with the lynch mob of the Japanese media you seem to so much adhor.
sfjp330 at 03:11 AM JST - 22nd August

Issues of guilt aside (she is as guilty as sin and should get life imprisonment), this whole affair shows up the sordid relationship that exists between the police (the National Police Agency) and those lick spittles of the mass media. The whole deal is like this, the cops get an easy ride from the media in return for feeding tidbits of information regarding ongoing investigations. This leads to complacency among the cops because they are not under the hammer of the media, it also leads to complacency among the media because they are spoon fed facts by the police.

In the U.S., if the police department releases any evidence or information regarding this case to the third party such as media in this case, prior to being charged and before the court proceedings, and later affects the outcome of the trial, your defense attorney can ask for mistrial. This is actually tampering with the evidence and we don't know if the evidence is true or not. We have not seen the evidence of "traces of stimulants found in her hair" other than what the "investigative source" said. If they are doing it this way to convict her, then release the actual lab report and let us see it. The defendent is being accused only at this point. If this is a normal practice for law enforcement, this is a major problem for Japan. This rarely happens in U.S. and if you have a good lawyer, you can probably get out of this one.
BuddhismTech at 12:55 PM JST - 22nd August

Bad news - Wikipedia says that Sakai's jail time was being extended for another nine days - until August 28, just because her hair sample was tested positively. If all of this is true, then I should apologize for my bad theories and mistrust. Apparently, Sakai and her family members did not set up the drug scandal all by themselves, just for Sakai's benefit and publicity stunt. The incident coud be real, not staged. It must due to the Tokyo police's intensely obsessive work. The persuasion of Sakai's husband and Sakai was probably influenced by the Tokyo police's discovery about Sakai's brother, who was arrested for the drugs in Fukuoka Prefecture. He was a gangster who served in the Yamaguchi-gumi. He was arrested twice, on June 29 for using threats of violence to take a car and cash and on July 17 for his suspicous behavior while on a bail, leading to the revelation of MDMA drug after a urine test. Sakai's brother court case will begin on August 28, coinciding with Sakai's jail release (?).

Sakai would certainly avoid the trouble if she used a special shampoo to remove drugs from hairs and pass the test.
JackDorff at 04:47 PM JST - 22nd August

What are the cops going to do with the urine samples now?
Damien15 at 04:58 PM JST - 24th August

Here's where drugs are coming from. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/22/content_11927253.htm They'll be back doing what their doing in a matter of months.
Nessie at 05:37 PM JST - 24th August

What Frontandcentre said.

Although maybe they're testing so that she doesn't retract the confession later.
BuddhismTech at 02:21 AM JST - 26th August

New information:

Noriko Sakai is suspected of destroying evidence of drug use by cutting and coloring her hair. She destroyed and discarded her cell phone, because it may contained data on her phone which could lead the Tokyo cops to sources of the drugs. Her husband said that they were both into the drugs for four years. But Sakai probably denied that and falsely reduced the four years into ten times since last summer.

My opinion:

Data on Sakai's cell phone? Why didn't we hear enough about Takaso's cell phone loaded with data? Did the cops check on it? Maybe he did not destroy it because it did not have a vital data connecting to a drug dealer. Why did Sakai rid her own? Then, it sounds more like Sakai, not her husband, was a frequent customer of illegal drugs. Husband probably lied to protect Sakai.

I am becoming more doubtful that it was her husband who induced drug using to Sakai. It could be her idea. Sakai just bought drugs and shared some to her husband. Why did Sakai offer the white powder to her visiting friend? This is indication of attempting to seduce her into taking drugs. It then suggests that it was Sakai who seduced her husband into taking drugs last four years ago. Potentially, Sakai started using drugs more than four years ago. Not too many athletes in the world, referring to Sakai's husband, would be crazy to use illegal drugs and smoke.