OH WHAT!!? Another scandal news!!? What's really going on? It seems like that my world of Japan seems pretty bad right now - JAL's headed for bankruptcy next week, and now Ayu's implicated in a drug scandal? Hello? It seems that this is not really good news - and how could it be from a reputable source!?

It's not so much "ANOTHER" scandal than it is a reaaaallly late reporting of an already blown over scandal...

From September 2009.
http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94181

I'm a little surprised that people didn't recognize it. It's rather obvious in that thread that some of the posters seemed to really want the rumors to be true though.

Could we just overreact now, or could we just calm down now? It seems like this could be a rumor or so, but I think Channel News Asia should really check more and double-check about this...

i just hope it wont affect ayu's career

^ It's true she HAS been implicated in a drug scandal, but it's not really anything to worry about right now.

I live in japan and I can say that here there was never such news in the television!!!So here no one is talking about ayu and drugs!^^

She was... 4 months ago, and it seems that everything's blown over since then. [Mika Noguchi's blog closed at some point in September and only came back in December]

Her only relation to the scandal was that she was best friends with Mika Noguchi, and somehow that made her involved/suspicious. Since Mika's back on the blogging scene, I doubt any legal action was taken on Mikajohn. I guess a story like this was mainly posted to get a ton of hits on a news site (AYUMI HAMASAKI! DRUGS! SCANDAL! FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE WHO WAS ASSOCIATED WITH SOMEONE ELSE WHO WAS ARRESTED!), but when you look at the facts, there's really nothing to worry about at all.

I'm pretty sure if this was true, and as popular as Ayu is, it would've been all over the news already.

God...why do people feel the need to defend her against everything, when she doesn't even need to be defended.

You know, people saying that it's still an on-going investigation and that she's being investigated, doesn't mean anything, or anything against her, just that...um the case is still being investigated.

If the case was closed...we'd know the case was closed because it would have been reported?

Besides, all the speculation about her having something to do with it is just as valid as the speculation of her not having something to do with it...because, oh yeah, we don't know anything lol

The biggest thing this article had was that Oshio implicated her directly? hah lol

It's obviously not really mattering to Ayu yet though...so, I dont think we have to care yet lol

It appears as though when Mika's blog reopened, she mentioned that because the investigation was still going on, that she wasn't going to say much about it, but that most of what was being said online about her and Ayu (I guess...?) were lies and that she denies all of the rumors that she was involved or that Ayu was somehow involved...

I guess in the end, this (in relation to Ayu) is all Mika's fault to begin with for allowing that client to use a property that she owned in an illegal manner in the first place.

Saying my prayers Hope it isn't true.

Another rumor :)) I don't care at all

omg all this nonsense!! WE STAND BY YOU NO MATTER WHAT AYU!!

I think the main story that Channelnews is trying to report is that ayu is selling (or transfer) her share fearing that her implication will affect the stock market of avex trex it doesnt mean that ayu is guilty of the drug scandal they used the word implicated didnt they.
Pls note that stock market prices will drop once a negative report is being spread. I remember the last time when the media reported that ayu n tomoya were together, avex's share dropped.

ugh, not this crap again :headache

I'd still love her even if she was in league with druggies.

Actually, it looks like they're trying to report that avex wanted to transfer their management rights to Ayu somewhere else, but where? This is reminding me of how the news sources said that avex was trying to remove Ayu's presence from all a-nation '09 material when that wasn't the case at all as she was present in all the usual a-nation '09 news reports.

Not worried :D

Yeah and that also turned out no to be true...Not to mention that yeah before even considering all the facts (ie she was very present on a-nation footage and that she had a regular share of promo for You were..., 2 concerts aired since and a couple of mag interviews - now that's not what you are supposed to do if you want to "hide" someone away from the public) some people on here obviously would love to see this proven true.

almost every bad news like this is actually about Mika Noguchi and Ayu is always like a tie-in because she's her best friend :roflmao