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Episode 420 - A History of Drugs in Japan

History of Japan

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The Drug Trade in Japan

After world war too, koreans and chinese lost their citizenship under the new post war regime. Many were recruited by gangs and the resurgent yakusa who got very into the drug trade. One 19 89 study suggests that the average ikusa group derived 34 point eight % of its annual income from drug trafficking. This is the height of the real estate bloom in japan.

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