One referred over 8.93 g of THC tablets carried off a cruise ship at Kagoshima
Customs officers in Kagoshima found 8.93 grams of tablets containing THC in a foreign cruise-ship passenger's hand luggage on 26 July 2026. On 12 August the Nagasaki Customs Kagoshima branch referred one person to prosecutors under the Customs Act for attempted import of narcotics.
🇯🇵 Kagoshima cruise-ship terminal, Kagoshima · Japan
Photographs released by Nagasaki Customs included tablets containing a cannabis
component found in a foreign cruise-ship passenger’s hand luggage.[1][2]The
passenger had sailed from South Korea aboard an international cruise ship
intending to bring the tablets into Japan.[3]Kagoshima Customs officers found
the tablets during an inspection on 26 July 2026, preventing the import.[3]Customs identified the material as tablets containing
delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol weighing 8.93 grams in total.[3]
After a joint investigation with Kagoshima police, the Kagoshima branch referred
one person to the Kagoshima District Public Prosecutors Office under the Customs
Act on 12 August 2026.[3]On 5 November Nagasaki Customs held a waterfront
anti-smuggling meeting and released photographs of drugs seized during the year.[1][2]
The 5 November meeting drew 32 people from six bodies including Nagasaki
Customs, the prefectural police and the coast guard.[1]Participants shared
information on recent smuggling methods and enforcement to stop drugs at ports
and airports.[1]
Photos and video
Officials display the seized tablets at the 12 August 2026 press briefing. Photo: Nagasaki CustomsPhoto details
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Source: Nagasaki CustomsThe seized THC-containing tablets laid out for the press. Photo: Nagasaki CustomsPhoto details
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Source: Nagasaki CustomsClose-up of the tablets containing delta-9-THC, 8.93 grams in total. Photo: Nagasaki CustomsPhoto details
The reports do not name the referred person or give a nationality, age or sex, so only one charged person is recorded.
No tablet count or street value was published, only the 8.93 gram total.
No prosecution, fine or court outcome after the August referral was reported.
The 5 November meeting figure of two illegal-drug or gold smuggling detections in the first half of 2026 is a combined total and is not recorded as a cannabis figure.
The submitted gallery image has no caption or credit identifying it as this seizure, so only the agency's press-briefing photographs are listed as media.
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