Cannabis Freedom Index

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history: close four Japan triage opens, upgrade 1968 entry with Nagahama primary

Triage: Hokkaido wild eradication, Tottori hemp-licensing ban, 2021 panel recommendation and 2023 passage all unscored. Wikipedia audit found no missing dated events. The 1968 foreigners entry now cites the read Nagahama 1968 UN Bulletin article verbatim for its first sentence.

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A UN report finds most of Japan's cannabis offenders are foreigners

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The report said those who broke the cannabis law were mainlycrime in Japan was generally of foreign origin, with rising arrests of foreign sailors and soldiers on leave from the Vietnam war fronts who imported cannabis into Japan.[@1] In 1972 there were 853 violations; by 2006 there were 2,423, and in 2019 4,570 after six years of increases.[@2]

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Masamutsu Nagahama — A review of drug abuse and countermeasures in Japan since World War II, UN Bulletin on Narcotics, 1968 issue 3 1 unchanged

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+# Japan: triage closed plus Wikipedia audit and 1968 primary upgrade
+
+Research checked on 27 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`, the Japan
+timeline and profile, the English Wikipedia History and Legal-status
+sections in full (used as an audit checklist), and the Nagahama 1968 UN
+Bulletin article (read in full on UNODC). No scores or profiles changed.
+
+## What changed
+
+- Four triage opens closed as unscored with reasons: Hokkaido 2003 wild
+  eradication; Tottori 2016 prefectural hemp-licensing ban; 2021 panel
+  recommendation (superseded); 2023 reform passage (scored at 2024
+  commencement).
+- `japan-foreign-violators-1968`: first sentence converted to per-sentence
+  citation on the Nagahama primary (read; confirms foreign-origin wording
+  verbatim with the Vietnam-leave detail); stats sentence stays
+  Wikipedia-sourced. (Also fixed an unquoted-colon YAML bug the test
+  caught.)
+
+## Wikipedia audit result (no missing dated events)
+
+Our timeline already covers everything dated in the article: 1948 Act, 1950
+farms, 1968 foreigners, 1980 McCartney, 1982 definition, 1985 upholding, 2003
+Hokkaido, 2008 sumo and drug strategy, 2016 Tottori, 2021 panel, 2023 reform,
+2024 use crime, plus the conventions. Open leads, not entries: Hirohito's
+pre-1948 industrial-hemp assurances (Japan Times, unread, paywalled);
+dappo-habu crackdowns after two 2010s driving incidents (Vice 2022, unread,
+undated).
+
+## Validation and tree note
+
+- Chain `jp`, `history:test` 40/40, `answers:test`, production build to be
+  run before commit.
+- Commit stages only these five hunks plus this note, via patch filtering
+  without stashing. Foreign work in the shared tree stays untouched.
docs/research/history-jp-triage-2026-10-27.md +22 −0
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+# Triage: four Japan opens closed as unscored
+
+Research checked on 27 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`, the four
+entries with the jp profile and chain (1948 100→3, 2024 3→2). No scores or
+profiles changed.
+
+## What changed
+
+- `japan-hokkaido-wild-cannabis-2003`: unscored (wild eradication).
+- `japan-tottori-hemp-ban-2016`: unscored (prefectural hemp-licensing ban;
+  fibre programme, no drug-user change).
+- `japan-panel-recommends-use-offence-2021`: unscored (recommendation;
+  superseded by the reform).
+- `japan-reform-passed-2023`: unscored (passage; scored at 2024
+  commencement).
+
+## Validation and tree note
+
+- Chain `jp`, `history:test`, `answers:test`, production build to be run
+  before commit.
+- Commit stages only these four hunks plus this note, via patch filtering
+  without stashing. Foreign work in the shared tree stays untouched.
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