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Enforcement 🇯🇵 Japan

Japan seizes a record tonne of cannabis hidden in a container

Narcotics agents said on 13 August 2025 that they had seized 1.046 tonnes of dried cannabis, worth about 5.2 billion yen on the street, from a shipping container that had left Vietnam in May and arrived in Japan in June.[1] It was the largest single seizure of any illegal drug in Japan, and more than twice the 452 kg of herbal cannabis recorded across the country in 2024.[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Japan here.

References

  1. Kyodo News — Record 1 ton of cannabis, worth $35 mil., seized in Japan

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