Actor Akira Akasaka handed suspended prison term for drugs

Mainichi Shinbun
November 22, 2007
Source: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20071121p2a00m0na015000c.html
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Popular actor Akira Akasaka was handed a suspended prison term on Wednesday for possessing stimulants.

The Tokyo District Court sentenced 34-year-old Akasaka to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for violating the Stimulants Control Law. The judge handed down the ruling during the first hearing because Akasaka declared that he would not contest the charges.

"I used the drugs to escape from the pain of not being able to meet my child since my divorce. I'm terribly sorry for my fans," Akasaka said following the ruling.

Akasaka was caught possessing 0.7 grams of stimulants on a street in the Ikebukuro district of downtown Tokyo in the predawn hours of Oct. 28, according to the ruling.

Akasaka made his show business debut in the late 1980s as a member of Hikaru Genji, a popular teenage singing group on roller skates. He said he purchased the drugs from a foreigner.

Defendant Akasaka "part-time job for child support"

Japan Sports
November 22, 2007
Original Source: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071121-00000021-dal-ent
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　The first trial of the Akira Akasaka defendant (34) was performed a former member of popular idol group "light GENJI" asked violation of Stimulant Drugs Control Law punishment (possession) in Tokyo district court on 21st, and, in penal servitude June, 1, judgment of the (statement of the prosecutor's opinion on the punishment June, 1) was sentenced to in stay of execution 3. The defendant heard judgment docilely while the sob of the fan leaked out from the seat for the public and promised a rebirth when I "regretted one's weakness heartily". It is said that I send the expense of bringing up children to the eldest son (5) who is apart from life by a divorce in future while I leave the entertainment world, and working part-time.
　I hardened the body to a black suit and a white shirt and continued answering a question faithfully while looking down.
　I was "divorced in March and was not able to meet a child". It was very hard when I heard that neighboring mother and child talked about the athletic meet. The member of an idol group representing 80's that is such thought that has injured the future of the child who has done a thing shallow now. As an actor, is deep-rooted afterwards; was popular. There were both the court and the figure that the fan who obtained one piece of 23 pieces of passes to a court hearing sobbed.
　I "moped by a divorce (I do not announce it), but was able to talk about the opportunity to use with nobody". I am hard and I used the sleep inducing drugs first, but explain it when I have just bought it from a foreigner tempted before. I purchased seven or eight times from about this April and told that I "wasted it without understanding how to use first and examined it on the Internet" in usage.
　After a case, I am discharged from a Janie office and apologize to a fan and a family in the trial. When I "worked part-time, and any kind of small amount wanted to pay child maintenance" for the eldest son, I did it, and, in sad parental affection, a sob was able to leak again from a seat for the public.
　The defendant accepted a prosecution fact overall, and trial terminated in a day, and the Judge Naoto Sasaki decided the application of "the summary trial" that penal servitude was accompanied by the stay of execution by all means. According to the judgment, the defendant possessed about 0.6g stimulant on a street of Tokyo / Toshima-ku in before dawn of 28th in October, and it was arrested flagrante delicto by a staff member of a police station of Metropolitan Police Department Otsuka station.

Akira Akasaka, former Hikari Genji, admits charges of drug possession in Tokyo court

Jiji Press
November 21, 2007
Original Source: http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=soc_30&k=2007112100442
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　　It was assumed that I possessed a stimulant on a street of Toshima-ku, Tokyo, and it was Tokyo district court, and the first trial of the actor Akira Akasaka defendant (34) of the former idol group "light GENJI" member asked violation of Stimulant Drugs Control Law punishment recognized a prosecution fact on 21st when it "was wrong, and there was" not the Akasaka defendant. The Judge Naoto Sasaki decided a summary trial and, in penal servitude June, 1, sentenced it to (statement of the prosecutor's opinion on the punishment penal servitude June, 1) for stay of execution three years.
　I stated that "the responsibility that demanded a drug easily to change the trouble of the private life was heavy, but I received social sanctions, and the Judge Sasaki could deepen reflection" by judgment.
　When the defendant Akasaka "used it by an examination of the accused to escape from the bitterness that I am divorced in March, and cannot meet a child", I testify it. I "am very sorry for what I did to a fan". I work part-time and will call again from the beginning in future. I apologized when I never did it any more.
　The prosecution comes to use it from this April and points out that I purchased it from seven or eight times traffickers so far. When I "used it continuously, and habitualness was remarkable", I criticized it.

Akira Akasaka: Divorced in March...Stimulants trigger?

Japan Sports
November 22, 2007
Original Source: http://mainichi.jp/enta/geinou/news/20071101spn00m200009000c.html
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　I understood that suspect actor Akira Akasaka (34) was divorced in arrested cause "light GENJI" by flagrante delicto of the violation of Stimulant Drugs Control Law (possession) in the end of March by the story of the lawyer who gave an interview with on 31st. When I seemed to be "connected with each other for the situation, but the conclusion was not enacted" as for the lawyer about connection with having meddled with a stimulant, I did it.

　The legal adviser of the Janie office where suspect Akasaka belonged to gives an interview with at about 8:00 in the afternoon of 31st. It is said that I told that it develops that they were troubled with the issue of divorce in main sheet news of yesterday from about spring, and "reporters can stream down that they were divorced in the end of March".

　According to the lawyer, I "did considerable anxiety (ぐ) of coverage extending" to a Lady and the eldest son (5) who parted. I seem to have announced it not to be troubled more than this.

　What meddled with a stimulant from April just after the divorce. The acquaintances consider that the one of the motives matched the stress by the divorce. The lawyer points out that it may be "said that it was surely the time when it was depressed for the situation very much mentally" (by a divorce). Appear in musical "PLAYZONE" of Boy's Brigade for from July to September; cannot be "said to have come to a deadlock by work". But I did it when "the stress" that he called a cause cannot conclude that it was the shock of the divorce.

　In November, 01, I marry a woman of former OL with a senior for two years of Horikoshi high school days. Mother had the parental authority of the eldest son born in June, 02.

　About the state of the investigation "was unstable, but calm down slowly now mentally at first". When I understood importance, and being similar particularly looked "natural", I gave an explanation that a case was reported greatly.

　On the other hand, the TBS channel of the communication satellite broadcasting was going to broadcast drama "HOTEL" (the fourth series) which suspect Akasaka appeared from 4th,; but for cancellation. Mao Daichi (51) that immorality association was reported in a part in 04 canceled coverage party of the stage starring. In addition, the Azabudai publishing company which published magazine "Popolo" which it published interview column "コトノハナシ" of the suspect serially in did "the future because correspondence was not yet fixed when I cannot answer" it.