Overview

• Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Drug and Firearms Control Division took the 26-year-old into custody on Sept. 3 at his home in Suginami Ward on suspicion of violating the Narcotics Control Law.
• Investigators say Shimizu acknowledged possession, stating there was no mistake that he had marijuana.
• Police searched the residence on Wednesday morning and reported finding a substance believed to be cannabis along with rolling papers.
• Authorities allege possession around July, with reports saying a woman in her 20s who lived with him was also arrested on related suspicion.
• Shimizu appears in the Tokyo Revengers films and the TBS drama 19-banme no Karte, and TBS said it is confirming the facts in response to the reports.