Abstract

Cocaine use is rising in Japan, and record quantities of the drug are being seized, Japanese drug-enforcement agencies said. The amount of cocaine smuggled into Japan in the first 10 months of last year was 66 times higher than for the same 1988 period, officials at the Health Ministry and police headquarters said, without giving figures. Police confiscated a record 30 pounds of cocaine and arrested 80 people in cocaine-related cases between last January and October. They seized 60 pounds of heroin and 934 pounds of marijuana in the same period.

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