Overview

• The Tokyo Metropolitan Police sent case files on four team members aged 19 to 20 to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Tachikawa Branch on August 20.
• Investigators say the alleged joint possession occurred in mid-June at Kokushikan University's dormitory in Machida, Tokyo.
• Two of the four had been arrested on August 4 on suspicion of jointly possessing dried cannabis.
• During police questioning, six first- and second-year members, including the four referred, admitted past cannabis use, according to investigative sources.
• Kokushikan's men's judo team, a national powerhouse that has produced Olympic medalists, remains under indefinite suspension.