Cocain in Japan - A History of the Drug Trade

In the thirties, things would begin to change as drug crime arrests began to rocket upwards. The reasons why are complex bult at least in part have to do with the fact that the government itself entered the drug trade,. But let me back up a spell. When the japanese seized control of mancheria from the jang family, therefore, there was already a regional opium trade in very high gear. And the japan army, sensing an opportunity for revenue, and in desperate need of it in order to finance the expensive colonial project manchuria had become, decided to set up an opium monopoly.