{"id":144770,"date":"2022-02-22T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=144770&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-02-22T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:40:20","slug":"drug-smuggling-into-fukuoka-shifts-to-mail-services","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/drug-smuggling-into-fukuoka-shifts-to-mail-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Smuggling Into Fukuoka Shifts To Mail Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Moji Customs disclosed that most of the illegal drugs found last year involved international mail services. The report sites twelve cases of attempted importation of marijuana and other drugs in 2021, four times as much as 2020. Under the immigration restrictions due to the pandemic, drug smuggling in personal baggage aboard passenger airplane passengers has decreased dramatically. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20220219\/5010014940.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144768\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_drug-smuggling_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C764&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_drug-smuggling_2022_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_drug-smuggling_2022_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_drug-smuggling_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C559&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_drug-smuggling_2022_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C419&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The report sites twelve cases of attempted importation of marijuana and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":144768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-144770","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/144770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}