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Originally Posted by hpg23
-One Morning Musume member, (I forgot the name), got practically erased from showbusiness a couple years ago, simply because she was caught smoking and dating a boy.
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This "boy" was a man about twice her age. It would've made news anywhere. Of course I agree with you that the particular rules applied to this kind of idol are very strict, howeverthe issues concerning Ai Kago were much more complicated. The outcome was due to other issues as well of which there's a lot of speculation. The plagiarism scandal, boyfriend of ayaya etc never resulted in something similar even if they're not totally different.
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Originally Posted by hpg23
-Ami Suzuki had a huge scandal that crashed her career, because she was evading taxes. She was only able to come back some time after, thanks to her re-debut with Avex, and with a lot less success than what she once had, when she was one of the tops.
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like metioned above she was dropped because she went against her own company, a problem a lot of people face in other industries as well (loyalty issues). I agree the whole case was a big tragedy.
Some of the posts in this thread are really disturbing, but most've been said already.
Some officials have proposed to distribute heroin to addicts in order to halt the black market. I think this is a really bad idea because a lot of the addicts also sell drugs and offer it to users of other kind of illegal drugs. Heroin is a drug that is highly addictive and abusers often have to use higher dosis every time to achieve the same amount of pleasure. Giving it out for free would do nothing to make the black market smaller but rather boost availability. It would also mean that the governement directly or indirectly would contribute to the continued farming of these kind of crops which is utterly absurd for so many reasons IMO.