If she were a Black female, the problem/story would be the racist Japanese.
Posted on 06/18/2015 5:06:15 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Julie Hamp (pictured above), Toyota Motor Corporation's recently promoted global chief communications officer and top female executive, has found herself behind bars after allegedly running afoul of Japan's strict prescription drug laws. Tokyo police claim that Oxycodone was sent to her from the US and discovered by Japanese customs. Hamp was arrested at her hotel on June 18.
(Excerpt) Read more at autoblog.com ...
Maybe she should call herself Julie Hemp and move to Colorado.
Except that opioid abuse is illegal in Colorado, too.
'Even with a prescription, it's illegal to bring many drugs into Japan from the US. Some over-the-counter medications here, like allergy medications, are prohibited there, as well.'
Clicked through to the story - 57 doses 0f Oxycodone? Sounds like she had gotten used to them.
I’m surprised they’re so strict where there is no intent to distribute. The Japanese can be very kinky and unusual in other respects.
What an IDIOT..!
Japan is almost like Malaysia about drugs.
The other thing is that being in Jail in Japan is not like other places —very, very sharp supervision, direction in ALL things.
It’s like being at USMC boot camp —you are left unsupervised NEVER.
When she emerges from prison, she will be the MOST POLITE ex-executive in US history.
She’ll be saying thank you and please 10 times each sentence.
If she did not think it was illegal, why did she go to the trouble of posting it to herself instead of just putting it in her hand luggage? She obviously knew there would be a problem especially given how controlled it is here in the states right now.
If she's taking 57 of these, and isn't recently post op after major surgery, she has an abuse problem.
If she were a Black female, the problem/story would be the racist Japanese.
Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.
Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:
"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."
The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.
If you think the Japanese are uptight about the ainu, they utterly lost their minds about this recent study. Recent studies suggest that from a genetic point of view most Japanese are descended from Koreans. This goes against the sometimes not too subtle views that The Nihongi ( japanese) are better than other asians.
CC
OK, so she knew it was illegal... but maybe she was surprised about HOW illegal it was.
Sounds like a druggie to me...
The Japanese are the shortest. This study was done by country...The 40,000 pygmies in Africa are shorter but the average of the country where they live is taller.
If she was recently post op, she shouldn’t have been jumping on a plane. Toyota should at least evaluate her for dependence.
Don’t know if you’ve gotten painkillers recently - they’ve really cracked down. You have to go get a signed prescription from the doctor, and take it to the pharmacy. No phoned in extensions or renewals. So this probably isn’t something she had called in after she got to Nippon.
If I was the prescribing doctor, I’d expect a call from the DEA soon.
Exactly. She’s not post op, she’s dependent. My last surgery was six years ago, and Mrs. henkster went to get the pain meds. There was a lot more scrutiny than getting an anti-biotic.
I will say that Oxycodone is very strong stuff, and it makes all the pain go away. All of it, or so it seems. I can easily see how people can become dependent on it.
By the way - a useful link containing other useful links for those thinking of going to Japan:
http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/acs/tacs-medimport.html
The drugs were packed under toy jewelry in a package labeled “necklace.” Toyota employees are held to a high ethical standard, and run-ins with the law, even minor misdemeanors, are rare and seen as a disgrace. As the first senior woman executive and first foreign Toyota executive to be fully stationed in Japan this is not helpful to say the least.
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