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Oshio 1 1/2-year term suspended for five

Former actor and singer Manabu Oshio was sentenced Monday to a suspended 18-month prison term by the Tokyo District Court for using the illegal synthetic drug MDMA in August in an apartment where a woman was found dead. Although a suspended term is... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Mon, Nov 02 2009

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