Updates to Sakai Noriko's arrest

Frankly speaking, from sympathizing with her, I think many people will be angry with her by now. By hiding for 6 days and dumping her son with a friend (supposedly her husband's lover), she is still being difficult by refusing to cooperate with the police. This will probably make it an uphill task for her to return to showbiz since she doesn't seem to have shown any remorse about what she did. Although her husband's behaviour of exposing his wife's deeds isn't something many people approve of, I think both of them are equally to blame for what has happened. I feel that the biggest victim is her son who must now bear with the stigma of having his parents charged and possibly jailed for a number of years.

Sakai Noriko arrived at the Tomisaka Police Station on 8 August at around 7.55pm, accompanied by her family members and her husband's lawyer. She is now formally arrested by the police for possession of 0.008 grams of stimulants and usage of this banned substance. However, Sakai is not being cooperative and has given ambiguous accounts to the police.

Apparently, the police had called for Sakai's surrender through Takasou's lawyer and the latter called the police at around 4pm yesterday, indicating Sakai's intention to surrender. Later that evening, Sakai showed up with her relatives and lawyer in tow. It is also said that Sakai had deliberately chosen to give herself up on a Saturday as the scale of media reports is said to be lesser on a weekend i.e. Sunday.

When asked about the stimulants, dozens of straws and aluminium foil used to consume the drug, Sakai did not confess readily and gave an ambiguous answer, "if you found it in my home, then that's mine". Later that night at around 9.30pm, Sakai was then sent to the Shibuya Police Station for more questioning and an urine test. Results for the urine test are expected to be revealed in 3 days. When asked about her whereabouts for the past six days, Sakai refused to say anything. As such, even though there were reports that she had been in a friend's house in Tokyo all along, it is unknown whether she had been to Yamanashi since her mobile phone's signal was detected there.

Meanwhile, her agency, Sun Music held a press conference early this morning where the president revealed that Sakai has to be fired if she is prosecuted in court and found guilty. He was also very upset that Sakai had not come to him for help despite knowing and supporting her for over 20 years. The president said that apparently, their relationship was not as close as what he had thought and hoped that Sakai will be truthful and reveal whatever she has done so as to repent for her mistakes.