Noriko Sakai; 80s/90s idol/actress missing

[story]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianp...PtsJ9taw6Ttu9ag



This is all over the Chinese news. Apparently she was really popular there in the 90s.

[Shoujo Q]

I read about it on anime news network. It all seems so shady what happened.



They say that they found her son unharmed in the care of a friend.





Apparently Idollica was a big fan of hers. I have an album and a few songs on my iPod but they aren't spectacular by any means.



I hope she shows up soon unharmed.

[eri]

Ah my friend was just telling me about this. The last signal that her cell phone could be traced to was the forest around Mt Fuji...which is known for suicides. Quite sad. What kind of asshole husband was that? It isn't just about playing around with your own health at this point -- he put his entire family's livelihood at serious risk.

[kaorin]

Damn I think this actually tops Tsuyoshi getting super drunk and running around naked for recent WTF japanese celebrity news. I never thought I would hear this kind of story from her of all people. I was just checking out the forums on tokyograph, looks like the police have issued a warrant for her arrest:



http://forums.tokyograph.com/showthread.ph...6560&page=2

[tsukinobyouin]

Wow, that's unexpected.



[quote name='KN' post='67056' date='Aug 7 2009, 12:33 AM']I was just checking out the forums on tokyograph, looks like the police have issued a warrant for her arrest:



http://forums.tokyograph.com/showthread.ph...6560&page=2[/quote]



The replies over at the Tokyograph forum get confusing though - the article Story post mentions that she wasn't reported missing until the next day, but people at Tokyograph are claiming she was at the scene when her husband was arrested and ran from the police. Has anyone seen actual details on that, or the warrent for her arrest, at an official news source?

[EmEl]

Aw, wow, I love her early stuff. And I was a fan of Gunbuster when I used to like anime.



[quote name='TnB' post='67067' date='Aug 7 2009, 07:50 AM']The replies over at the Tokyograph forum get confusing though - the article Story post mentions that she wasn't reported missing until the next day, but people at Tokyograph are claiming she was at the scene when her husband was arrested and ran from the police. Has anyone seen actual details on that, or the warrent for her arrest, at an official news source?[/quote]

That's what it seems like. The police called her to the scene and then asked her to come to the police station, which she refused. She then left to bring her son somewhere, and that's when she went missing. This tokyograph story seems to have the full timeline, which they got from this source.



I guess they let her go since she wasn't actually under arrest; but, now that they found drugs in her apartment, they have a cause for arrest.

[tsukinobyouin]

So apparently it runs in the family - her brother was arrested last month for stimulant use (source).

[Special Needs Tricycle]

She just turned herself in apparently. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... >/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

[Ap2000]

Japanprobe has a few fairly interesting articles on her. (not that I'm interested in her, but rather how the media reacts)



Noriko Sakai’s drugs came from “a foreigner”

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=11947



(And these followed some time after:



Guardian Angels talk about foreign drug dealers in Tokyo

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=11950



Japanese Drug Awareness Video

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=11951 )

[eri]

[quote name='Ap2000' post='67268' date='Aug 12 2009, 08:46 PM']Japanprobe has a few fairly interesting articles on her. (not that I'm interested in her, but rather how the media reacts)



Noriko Sakai’s drugs came from “a foreigner”

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=11947



(And these followed some time after:



Guardian Angels talk about foreign drug dealers in Tokyo

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=11950



Japanese Drug Awareness Video

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=11951 )[/quote]



What fucking bullshit. There was another celebrity husband nabbed for drugs just before this and he also blamed America for teaching him how to use drugs, etc. It is just displacing your own guilt by conjuring up public support against those scary "foreigners" that are ruining Japan and their former idols.

[Ap2000]

And it just keeps on getting better. haha

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=12048

[Shoujo Q]

Noriko Sakai's life just seems to get worse doesn't it?



Noriko Sakai’s vacation home destroyed by fire



She can't catch a break can she?