[AmericanInTokyo]

Ping です.

[Ronin]

If I recall correctly, the bust took place in Roppongi. That being the case, I would have to say the chances are better than 50% that her hubbie got them at one of the clubs there - and a foreigner was probably involved.

Most likely one with a suit that looks two sizes too big for him, lots of gold jewelry, etc.

I wouldn't be caught dead in Roppongi these days.

[Ronin]

Though discussed little in public, estimates put Japan's regular drug users in the millions. Amphetamine crystals, known locally as shabu shabu is common, but cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana and other narcotics are readily available despite stiff penalties. Japan doesn't differentiate between soft and hard drugs.

I have problems with that paragraph. They are NOT readily available in anything like the sense they are available in America or any other European country.

If you go out looking for them, you can probably find them, but drug users in Japan are almost a completely separate community -- restricted to the entertainment community and the Yakuza set.

I wouldn't have the foggiest idea who to talk to or where to go, myself.

But then, maybe I am just too old and straighlaced for that crap these days.

(He said, sipping his first scotch and water of the weekend.)