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Record 1 ton of cannabis, worth $35 mil., seized in Japan

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Japanese narcotics agents said Wednesday they have seized 1.046 tons of cannabis worth about 5.2 billion yen ($35 million) on the street, marking Japan's largest-ever single-raid illegal drug haul.
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Japan confiscates record 1 ton of dried cannabis from Vietnam

NHK has learned that Japanese authorities have confiscated about one ton of dried cannabis that was shipped to Tokyo Port from Vietnam.

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Over One Ton of Dried Cannabis Found at Tokyo Port, Valued at 5.2 Billion Yen ($5.2 Billion) - Smuggled From Vietnam as "Charcoal"

[Yomiuri Shimbun] On the 13th, the Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare's Narcotics Control Division announced that it had seized approximately one ton of dried cannabis smuggled into a port in Tokyo, and arrested three Vietnamese men and women, including a female defendant (51) (Chikusei City, Ibaraki Prefecture), who claims to be a remodeling professional, on suspicion of violating the Narcotics Control Act (importing for profi…

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Record 1 ton of cannabis, worth $35 mil., seized in Japan

Japanese narcotics agents said Wednesday they have seized 1.046 tons of cannabis worth about 5.2 billion yen ($35 million) on the street, marking Japan's largest-ever single-raid illegal drug haul.

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Kyodo News+ broke the news in Japan on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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