Drugs, Sex and Yakuza at Nagoya Nightlife

The night was late when I reached the Sakae area which is one of the busiest stations and shopping and entertainment in the city of Nagoya located in Aichi prefecture, central Japan.Although the shops are almost everything is tutuo but the night life is still felt still stretched and even just started in this place. Visible with the still crowded vehicles including taxis and private vehicles at Nishiki Dori and also crowds of people passing by and waiting for the red light to green to cross the road. Most of them still carry their briefcases as if they had just returned from work.

Sakae, is one of the nightspots where there are karaoke, discotheque, bars, restaurants and also hotels both local and international.A karaoke place with bright lights was still displaying warmth in the middle of the night in the cold early in March. The bright red and white colors display a mixture of kanji and hiragana or katakana.

I keep going, the cold wind blows bones, but the warmth of the fluorescent lamps is still breathing. "Bikini girls, bikini girls", some youth continue to persuade pedestrians.Wah, it's a lot of nightlife in Nagoya!

Nagoya, as well as other big cities in Japan is indeed visible and feels very safe both for locals and visitors. No worries or worries even though we walked in the middle of the night. Even in a horrible area like in this Sakae red light area.

Here, there is even a street where the disco and bar bar provide a kind of "live show", which can be an erotic dance or other thrilling show. A bar named "Bond Girls" features purple-colored fluorescents depicting girls, the girls are a tantalizing pose. The full information includes show time and ticket prices can also be easily seen. In addition to Bond Girls, there are many other names that are quite hearty like "Harem" and "Pharoh". In a building, there are even Indonesian bars and restaurants called the Bali Moon.

"Although it looks safe and peaceful, in fact this area holds quite a lot of hidden dangers," said my colleague, who has lived in Nagoya for quite some time. According to information, this red light area is closely related to drug trafficking as well as Yakuza's grip. Yakuza is a very well-known underground organization in Japan. This organization even consists of hundreds of organizations that commonly operate their mercury operations. The largest and most famous Yakamen gumi and headquartered in Kobe with jumlang gang members around 7000 orng, while for the Nagoya area they have a gang named "Kodokai" with members of about 4000 people only.

It is common knowledge that despite official permission from the government, all business venues in the nightspots are also required to pay tribute to the protection of the Yakuza. And Yakuza involvement in drug trafficking is also very real with the various types of money laundering practices they undertake. Usually they are a source of funding for overseas gangsters producing drugs such as South Korea, Thailand, and China. The drugs are then smuggled into Japan and traded in red-light areas in major Japanese cities such as Sakae in Nagoya.

In Nagoya, like other big cities in Japan, the most preferred type of drugs is amphetamine, although some other types of cannabis, MDMA (ecstasy), and most recently such as ketamine have also become popular. Japan itself is now arguably as a consumer country where almost all drugs are imported through smuggling.

The level of drug trafficking in Japan is very limited indeed. But according to the story of the retail price on the streets that can reach hundreds of times the price of capital makes this business provides a very tempting advantage, although in an amount that is not too many once. Compared to other countries, the prevalence level of drug abuse in Japan itself is very low. The circulation is very limited and usually only in the sinful areas of Sakae.

With almost no "made in Japan" drugs, addicts depend on imported supplies. Customs custody at all airports and patrols at Japanese ports are so tight that even smugglers have many sophisticated ways of putting these illicit goods in Japan.

Yakuza involvement in drug trafficking in Japan was not alone. Foreign synonyms such as from China also turned out to be a lot of involvement and they besides working alone also sometimes work together with Yakuza gangs in distributing illicit goods earlier in various major cities in Japan including in this Sakae area. to give the impression and disguise their involvement of these Yakuza gangs instead use the foreign gang as a dealer as well. And most of the Chinese and supposedly khabarnya there is also yag originating from Iran.Namun all the way that night in the Sake area, most people who stand in front of the entertainment and youth who menoparakan bikini girl is a Japanese.