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The manufacturer is based in Japan, they said they'll continue to produce it because it's legal. I don't know which store you're talking about.
I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about.
re-reads old news articles
(Damn, this was already a month ago.)
So it was produced by an Osaka company, but the stores selling their product wasn't the reason people got sick. Some "guy" at an outdoors festival was passing them out to minors. The manufacture specifically forbade minors from buying or consuming them. Once festival bro bought them, it was out of their hands.
And if the Japanese company that makes these gummies wants to keep making them, they do have to change recipe to omit HHCH. If they don't, they'll run afoul of the new law now banning it from use in Japan.
Was HHCH the real reason 20 people got sick at one festival on one day? Dunno.
I don't know either, but the sole fact that the guy distributed HHCH to people unaware of that marijuana replacement chemical is inexcusable of him.
Tricking someone into taking drugs is assault. The victims often have a really bad time. People who use drugs usually understand that. That guy must have been either an asshole, a moron, or both.
Well, yeah. But what's strange is there are no articles about the guy. Only the store that sold it and the company that made it. Can they not find him?
Japanese news articles say he was arrested. They probably know the identity of the man.
Seems it's a strange person who talks about gods daily.
Link? Every article I read says 'the police are investigating.'
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2c2cb50ab5494e5109552fbe75185e1ea2be3397
This article says the guy voluntarily took an interview (任意聴取) with the police.
Additionally I've seen a random webpage summarizing this incident claiming he was arrested. So far, I haven't come across a news organization reporting that. Apologies. But most likely police know who he is.
Maybe I'm translating it wrong, but I think it says they interviewed the people who were hospitalized. That's how they found out it was a guy passing them out.
You would think they would have found him by now, yet I haven't seen any follow-up news about what happened.
It's on the second page.
Welp, the Yahoo! link is dead now.
Based on what you copied, I guess he communicated in some way with the police but it doesn't say what the police did in response.
Like I said, it feels so intentionally vague. For whatever reason, they don't want this case or the fate of the man to be reported on for now.
I still don't think he was trying to make kids take drugs or hurt anyone like the two in OP's report.