j57 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:40 am how can anyone assume a Man in his 70s is already rich enough?
that is pure nonsense..
Watch Clint Eastwood's flic The Mule..
Did I miss some news flash that all elderly Japanese men are rich?
Perhaps, he lost his bundle at a shit hole casino?
Maybe he needs money for his wife's surgery?
He did not seem greedy..
He seemed desperate ...
so fucked up..
this evil shit going all over poisoning people.. destroying lives...users and non-users.

I said plenty rich. I didn't mean he's vastly wealthy. I mean he's got all his needs and wants met. All Japanese do. Perhaps he is a patsy, only cod knows what the circumstances are. Perhaps he is using methamphetamine, emboldening him to smuggle that garbage. The true story will eventually come out.

Marty wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 2:37 pm

I said plenty rich. I didn't mean he's vastly wealthy. I mean he's got all his needs and wants met. All Japanese do.

You should watch the film Shoplifters, or look into the phenomenon of elderly Japanese going to prison in large numbers:

"I reached pension age and then I ran out of money. So it occurred to me - perhaps I could live for free if I lived in jail," he says.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47033704

OK sure that stuff happens. Rarely. That guy and others like him are the few exceptions that prove the rule. Japan operates just like a European country with vast safety nets.

Marty wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 3:17 pm OK sure that stuff happens. Rarely. That guy and others like him are the few exceptions that prove the rule. Japan operates just like a European country with vast safety nets.

Things seem to be changing quite rapidly nowadays.
As a Japanese citizen, sad but have to admit.

Poverty among Japan’s elderly spurs grey crime wave
https://www.ft.com/content/e65e55b0-ccf ... 1a884dd8c6

UPDATE

Cambodia Breaking News, Phnom Penh: The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has charged Japanese national NONAKA SHUNICHI with possession of nearly two kilograms of drugs seized at Phnom Penh International Airport.

On February 19, 2020 at 11:06 am, Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Samrith Veasna ended his investigation and is charging the Japanese suspect of illegally storing, using and transporting 1.7 kilograms of a controlled substance under Article 40 Law on Drug Abuse. The case is being forwarded to the investigating judge.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:52 pm Why are they pixelating his face? They never pixelate faces...

maybe a jap porn star?

He is certainly handsome without th mask and quite fit. Its not unussual to have 100+ year old Japanese. Why not be a porn star for those that like that particular fetish?

Cambodia News, Phnom Penh: The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the morning of September 15, 2020, sentenced a Japanese man to 25 years in prison for attempting to smuggle nearly 2 kg of drugs from Cambodia to Japan.
On the night of 15 February 2020, Cambodian Customs and Excise authorities cooperated with the gate police and the specialized force of the Anti-Drug Department at Phnom Penh International Airport to search and detain NONAKA SHUNICHI, a 72-year-old Japanese man.

Mr. Lim Sambath, Director of the Customs and Excise Office at Phnom Penh International Airport, told reporters on the morning of February 17 that the arrested suspect was traveling on flight KE 690 from Phnom Penh to Seoul and expected to continue on flight KE 767 (Seoul-Amori) as the final destination.
The Japanese suspect was first sent before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the morning of February 18, 2020, by the competent force of the 10th Office of the Anti-Drug Department, and on September 15, he was given a 25 year prison sentence by the court.
NONAKA SHUNICHI was found with almost 2kgs of methamphetamine hidden in his suitcase.

So he will be out just before his 100th birthday.

I knew someone paid Pommie pensioner couple $5000 to do runs from Europe with four or five bottles of spirits. About 700ml of liquid coke in each bottle. He would turn it back into powder on arrival.
One day on Christmas Eve the bottles were stolen from the hotel room. Led to torture and murder.... great story.