2026年9月11日 / 美国东部时间上午10:12 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
据一名官员及媒体周五报道，东京警方逮捕了两名涉嫌向日本走私价值百万美元大麻的美国女子，其中一名嫌疑人称她是受免费赴日旅行的诱惑才参与此事。
两名均为25岁的女子于上周六从纽约抵达东京羽田机场，警方发言人向法新社透露，她们携带的两个行李箱中被秘密藏有“类似大麻的干植物”。
日本放送协会（Nippon TV）播出了缉毒现场画面，画面中可见十余包疑似大麻的物品。
日本拥有全球最严苛的毒品法律之一，走私或持有违禁毒品可被判处长期监禁。
据媒体报道，这批干大麻重约30公斤（66磅），价值约1.5亿日元（约合97万美元）。
日本放送协会报道称，其中一名女子告诉警方，她参与此次“任务”是为了赚钱，且“我被可以免费去日本这件事吸引了”。
据《东京新闻》援引不愿具名的警方消息人士报道，另一名嫌疑人否认相关指控，称她“不知道行李箱内藏有大麻”。
警方发言人告诉法新社，两名女子“与一名身份不明的同伙合谋”。据当地媒体报道，她们称收到了一名在社交媒体上结识但从未谋面的男子的指令。
这位发言人表示，两名女子已因“涉嫌违反毒品及精神药物管制法，或为牟利而走私”被捕。
他补充称，她们还违反了另外两项未具名的法律。
以牟利为目的走私大麻最高可判处10年监禁，并处最高300万日元（约合1.95万美元）的罚款。
去年12月，美国知名剧作家杰里米·O·哈里斯（Jeremy O. Harris）因涉嫌走私致幻毒品摇头丸在日本被捕，三周后获释。
U.S. women arrested for allegedly smuggling $1 million worth of drugs to Japan, one claims she was motivated by free trip
September 11, 2026 / 10:12 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
Tokyo police arrested two American women for allegedly smuggling $1 million worth of cannabis into the country, with one suspect claiming she was motivated by a free trip to Japan, an official and media reports said Friday.
The pair, both 25, arrived at Tokyo’s Haneda airport from New York last Saturday with two suitcases in which “cannabis-like dried plants were secretly stored,” a police spokesman told AFP.
Nippon TV aired images of the drug seizure, showing more than a dozen packages containing the alleged cannabis.
Japan has some of the world’s strictest drug laws and smuggling or possession of illegal narcotics can result in a lengthy jail term.
The dried cannabis weighed around 30 kilograms (66 pounds) and is valued at about 150 million yen ($970,000), media reported.
One of the women told police she took the job for the money and because, “I was attracted by the fact I could go to Japan for free,” Nippon TV reported.
The other suspect denies the allegation, telling police she “didn’t know that cannabis was inside” the suitcase, the Tokyo Shimbun reported, citing unnamed police sources.
The women “conspired with someone else whose name is unknown,” the police spokesman told AFP. They claimed they received instructions from a man they met on social media but never met in person, according to local media.
The pair were arrested “on suspicion of violating the drugs and psychotropics control law, or, smuggling to gain profit,” the spokesman said.
They also breached two other unnamed laws, he added.
Smuggling cannabis for the purpose of making profit carries up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 3 million yen ($19,500).
Last December, prominent American playwright Jeremy O. Harris was arrested in Japan on suspicion of smuggling the psychedelic drug ecstasy. He was released three weeks later.
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