>>47193221oh excuse me, pic related is aoi usagi. that is Ms.Sakai with her ex husband
>She eventually turned herself in on August 7th, 2009. She pleaded guilty to possessing the drugs and was sent to jail with additional time being added to her sentence as new evidence was found. She was released on September 17th, 2009 after posting bail. It was a huge scandal at the time.>It also essentially cost her her career.>The aftermath of her arrest>Drug use is no joke in Japan. While we in the West see drug use as a recreational activity at best and a debilitating illness at worse, Japan sees drug use as one of the worst sins a person can commit. Japanese celebrities don't get up on stage and brag about doing party drugs when they were in college and there aren't comedy movies out there about groups of stoners getting into wacky shenanigans. If you use drugs in Japan then that's it, you're done. No more career, no more fans, nothing. You are basically garbage and you don't deserve to share the title of "human being" with the rest of us.>Japan also tends to throw drug addicts into the same facilities as the mentally ill.>Knowing this might make it easier to understand how the Japanese media treated Ms. Sakai's arrest. Their response is the same no matter who it is and Justin Sevakis over at Anime News Network offers a great summary of the whole thing: 