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Smuggling stimulants in auto tire

OSAKA, Japan - Smuggled stimulant drugs are shown to reporters at the Osaka Customs office in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2012. The same day prosecutors indicted two men for trying to smuggle the drugs into Japan by concealing them in the spare tire (front) of a car brought by container ship from Canada.

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3 held for drug smuggling

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows the Singaporean-registered freighter Sun Honor docked in Muroran, Hokkaido, on Dec. 2, 2010. Police said on Dec. 6 they have arrested two Chinese crew members of the ship and a Japanese man on suspicion of smuggling some 5 kilograms of illegal stimulants into Japan.

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Illegal drug production

TOKYO, Japan - Lab equipment allegedly used for the illegal manufacturing of stimulants from cough medicine is displayed at a police facility in Machida, western Tokyo, on June 10, 2010. The instruments were confiscated from the home of a man in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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President of Sakai's agency

TOKYO, Japan - Masahisa Aizawa, president of Sun Music Production Inc., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 9. Actress Noriko Sakai of his entertainment agency was arrested the previous day on suspicion of possessing stimulants.

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President of Sakai's agency

TOKYO, Japan - Masahisa Aizawa (L), president of Sun Music Production Inc., bows at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 9. Aizawa apologized to the public for the arrest of actress Noriko Sakai of his entertainment agency the previous day on suspicion of possessing stimulants.

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President of Sakai's agency

TOKYO, Japan - Masahisa Aizawa, president of Sun Music Production Inc., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 9. Actress Noriko Sakai of his entertainment agency was arrested the previous day on suspicion of possessing stimulants.

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Actress Sakai arrested

TOKYO, Japan - A vehicle carrying actress Noriko Sakai leaves Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo early in the morning on Aug. 9 after she was arrested the previous day on suspicion of possessing stimulants following her surrender at a Tokyo police facility.

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Actress Sakai arrested

TOKYO, Japan - A vehicle carrying actress Noriko Sakai leaves Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo early in the morning on Aug. 9 after she was arrested the previous day on suspicion of possessing stimulants following her surrender at a Tokyo police facility.

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Actress Sakai arrested over drugs after surrendering to police

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying actress Noriko Sakai arrives at the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Aug. 8 after she was arrested on suspicion of possessing stimulants following her surrender at a Tokyo police facility.

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Sakai's arrest, onlookers

TOKYO, Japan - Onlookers and photographers gather on a sidewalk near Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Aug. 8 after reports of actress Noriko Sakai's arrest on suspicion of possessing stimulants.

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N. Korea ship raided on suspected drug violations, 3 men held

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Police officers search the North Korean freighter Turubong-1 at Sakai port in Tottori Prefecture on May 12 on suspicion of the ship being used to smuggle stimulants to Japan.

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N. Korea ship raided on suspected drug violations, 3 men held

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Police officers search the North Korean freighter Turubong-1 loaded with a pile of used bicycles at Sakai port in Tottori Prefecture on May 12 on suspicion of the ship being used to smuggle stimulants to Japan.

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Drug summit opens, focuses on stimulants and Afghan opium

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (R) makes an opening address at the International Drug Control Summit 2002 at a Tokyo hotel on April 23. Hashimoto chairs the two-day forum focused on the growing use of stimulants and the link between drugs and terrorism.

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Ex-premier Hashimoto agrees with Thailand on drug cooperation

BANGKOK, Thailand - Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (L) talks with Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at the Thai premier's office in Bangkok on Jan. 14. They agreed on cooperation between their two countries in dealing with narcotics and stimulants.

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Stimulants seized from Chinese ship off Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - A Chinese ship is berthed at Hakata port in Fukuoka on Jan. 7. The Japan Coast Guard arrested several Chinese sailors after confiscating some 150 kilograms of stimulants from the ship off the coast of Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan. The ship is rusty and does not display its name or nationality.

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Fresh warrants served on 3 in 143 kg drug haul

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Police show reporters in Yokohama on May 29 floor wax bottles which were used by three people to smuggle illicit stimulants into Japan. Police served new arrest warrants on Cao Zhisen, 55, a Chinese national, Au Sin Hong Stanley, 38, a British national from Hong Kong, and his Japanese wife Junko Kikkawa, accusing them of smuggling 143 kilograms of stimulants disguised as floor wax into Japan at Yokohama in April.

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Large amount of stimulants, cannabis smuggled from Germany

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fukuoka police display May 28 a large amount of stimulants and cannabis smuggled from Germany. Yutaka Handa, a 45-year-old unemployed man from Fukuoka Prefecture, is suspected of mailing about 5,000 ecstasy pills and roughly 880 grams of cannabis from Germany on April 2 to his home in Kurume.

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G-8 begins Miyazaki confab on drug crime

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Officials and experts from the Group of Eight (G-8) major countries kicked off a conference Dec. 13 in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, to reinforce cooperation in cracking down on crimes related to illegal drugs such as stimulants and heroin. Representatives from the U.N. International Drug Control Program also attended the meeting, which is to follow up on July's G-8 summit in Okinawa.

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Cuba produces bio-fertilizers, bio-stimulants to increase agricultural production

STORY: Cuba produces bio-fertilizers, bio-stimulants to increase agricultural production DATELINE: May 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:43 LOCATION: Havana CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE/SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the production of bio-fertilizers and stimulants 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): ALEJANDRO FALCON, Head of Group of Bio-Active Products at National Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Cuba STORYLINE: Cuba is working on the production of bio-fertilizers and bio-stimulants in search of a model of sustainable agriculture as the country faces economic, commercial and financial restrictions caused by the U.S. sanctions. At the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Cuban province of Mayabeque, some 30 kilometers from the capital Havana, chemical laboratories are manufacturing PECTIMORF and QUITOMAX, bio-stimulants of natural origin constituted of a mix of pectic oligosaccharides that are biologically active in plants and utilize chitosan polymers. According to the head of the Group of Bio-Active Products at

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Stimulants seized from Chinese ship off Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - A Chinese ship is berthed at Hakata port in Fukuoka on Jan. 7. The Japan Coast Guard arrested several Chinese sailors after confiscating some 150 kilograms of stimulants from the ship off the coast of Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan. The ship is rusty and does not display its name or nationality.

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Fresh warrants served on 3 in 143 kg drug haul

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Police show reporters in Yokohama on May 29 floor wax bottles which were used by three people to smuggle illicit stimulants into Japan. Police served new arrest warrants on Cao Zhisen, 55, a Chinese national, Au Sin Hong Stanley, 38, a British national from Hong Kong, and his Japanese wife Junko Kikkawa, accusing them of smuggling 143 kilograms of stimulants disguised as floor wax into Japan at Yokohama in April.

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Pack of stimulant drug carried by German suspect found worth 100 mil. yen

Photo taken at the Kansai International Airport customs on Nov. 12, 2015, shows a rucksack in which a pack of stimulant drug was hidden. A German man carrying the rucksack from Macao, identified as Gottward Michael, was arrested at the airport off Osaka, western Japan, in October on suspicion of smuggling stimulants whose street value is put at some 100 million yen ($813,000). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Men nabbed for attempt to import drugs hidden in wrist watches

Cannabis resin and MDMA powder hidden in the face of wrist watches are shown to the press in Oita city on Oct. 22, 2015, by the Moji Customs in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Oita prefectural police arrested two men for their alleged involvement in having the illegal stimulants mailed from the Netherlands to Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traces of stimulants detected in hair sample from actress Sakai

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows singer-turned-actress Noriko Sakai who was arrested Aug. 8 for alleged amphetamine possession. Investigative sources said Aug. 19 that very small traces of stimulants have been detected in a hair sample from Sakai. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea ship raided on suspected drug violations, 3 men held

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Police officers search the North Korean freighter Turubong-1 at Sakai port in Tottori Prefecture on May 12 on suspicion of the ship being used to smuggle stimulants to Japan. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea ship raided on suspected drug violations, 3 men held

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Police officers search the North Korean freighter Turubong-1 loaded with a pile of used bicycles at Sakai port in Tottori Prefecture on May 12 on suspicion of the ship being used to smuggle stimulants to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Kwansei Gakuin Univ. teacher held over stimulant possession

KOBE, Japan - Undated file photo shows Kevin Lucas, a British teacher at Kwansei Gakuin University, who has been arrested on suspicion of possessing stimulants. Police said Lucas is suspected of carrying 0.8 gram of amphetamines on the night of Dec. 14. (Kyodo)

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Kwansei Gakuin Univ. teacher held over stimulant possession

KOBE, Japan - Undated file photo shows Kevin Lucas, a British teacher at Kwansei Gakuin University, who has been arrested on suspicion of possessing stimulants. Police said Lucas is suspected of carrying 0.8 gram of amphetamines on the night of Dec. 14. (Kyodo)

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Entertainer Tashiro confesses stimulant use

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows arrested Japanese entertainer Masashi Tashiro. Tashiro confessed to his use of illegal stimulants after his arrest on Sept. 16, 2010 for possessing cocaine. (Kyodo)

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Entertainer Tashiro gets 3.5-year prison term for drugs

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese entertainer Masashi Tashiro. He was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on July 1, 2011, for using illegal stimulants and possessing cocaine, the third time he has been found guilty of illegal drug use. (Processed photo with original image taken Sept. 16, 2010, when Tashiro is escorted to the Kanagawa prefectural police headquarters in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, after being arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine.) (Kyodo)

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Illegal drug production

TOKYO, Japan - Lab equipment allegedly used for the illegal manufacturing of stimulants from cough medicine is displayed at a police facility in Machida, western Tokyo, on June 10, 2010. The instruments were confiscated from the home of a man in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Actress Komukai arrested

NARITA, Japan - Japanese actress Minako Komukai (C) arrives at Narita international airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, from Manila on Feb. 25, 2011. Komukai, wanted for alleged possession of illegal stimulants, was arrested upon arrival. (Kyodo)

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Actress Komukai arrested

NARITA, Japan - Japanese actress Minako Komukai (C) arrives at Narita international airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, from Manila on Feb. 25, 2011. Komukai, wanted for alleged possession of illegal stimulants, was arrested upon arrival. (Kyodo)

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3 held for drug smuggling

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows the Singaporean-registered freighter Sun Honor docked in Muroran, Hokkaido, on Dec. 2, 2010. Police said on Dec. 6 they have arrested two Chinese crew members of the ship and a Japanese man on suspicion of smuggling some 5 kilograms of illegal stimulants into Japan. (Kyodo)

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Smuggling stimulants in auto tire

OSAKA, Japan - Smuggled stimulant drugs are shown to reporters at the Osaka Customs office in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2012. The same day prosecutors indicted two men for trying to smuggle the drugs into Japan by concealing them in the spare tire (front) of a car brought by container ship from Canada. (Kyodo)

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Pop singer Aska to be arrested again for alleged drug use

Reporters gather on Nov. 28, 2016, in front of the house of pop singer-songwriter Aska. The 58-year-old Aska is set to be arrested for an alleged violation of the stimulants control law while still on parole for a 2014 drug offense, investigative sources said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pop singer Aska to be arrested again for alleged drug use

Reporters gather on Nov. 28, 2016, in front of the house of pop singer-songwriter Aska. The 58-year-old Aska is set to be arrested for an alleged violation of the stimulants control law while still on parole for a 2014 drug offense, investigative sources said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pop singer Aska to be arrested again for alleged drug use

Undated file photo shows pop singer-songwriter Aska, whose real name is Shigeaki Miyazaki. The 58-year-old is set to be arrested for an alleged violation of the stimulants control law while still on parole for a 2014 drug offense, investigative sources said on Nov. 28, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Drug summit opens, focuses on stimulants and Afghan opium

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (R) makes an opening address at the International Drug Control Summit 2002 at a Tokyo hotel on April 23. Hashimoto chairs the two-day forum focused on the growing use of stimulants and the link between drugs and terrorism.

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Large amount of stimulants, cannabis smuggled from Germany

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fukuoka police display May 28 a large amount of stimulants and cannabis smuggled from Germany. Yutaka Handa, a 45-year-old unemployed man from Fukuoka Prefecture, is suspected of mailing about 5,000 ecstasy pills and roughly 880 grams of cannabis from Germany on April 2 to his home in Kurume.

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G-8 begins Miyazaki confab on drug crime

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Officials and experts from the Group of Eight (G-8) major countries kicked off a conference Dec. 13 in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, to reinforce cooperation in cracking down on crimes related to illegal drugs such as stimulants and heroin. Representatives from the U.N. International Drug Control Program also attended the meeting, which is to follow up on July's G-8 summit in Okinawa.

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40% of stimulants seized in Japan involve N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows bags of amphetamine confiscated by Yamaguchi Police Department by Feb. 5. More than 40% of illegal stimulant drugs confiscated by police across Japan in 1999 either came from North Korea or have some connection with that country, the National Police Agency said Feb. 17. Police confiscated a record of some 1,970 kilograms (4,334 pounds) of amphetamine in 1999, more than in the previous five years combined.