From Behadrei Haredim (this is a loose translation):
“God is landing blow after blow on the Japanese. But they’re like Egypt and Pharaoh. Japan does not understand that it is holding the detainees [Satmar yeshiva students arrested for drug smuggling] for no reason. They think the yeshiva students know what this drug is, but from where would hasidic yeshiva students know what this is? Only goyyim [non-Jews] know what drugs are. Rather than [Japan] admitting its mistake, it continues to hold them, and for that [Japan] is punished.”
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2011/03/hasidic-reb...
Translated (sort of) article at this link
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bhol.co.il%2F...
Japan sentences Hasidic Israeli to 8 years in jail after Ecstasy bustThe Israeli, who was a minor at the time of the crime, was arrested along with three other Satmar Hasidim in 2008.
5-3-09 A Japanese court sentenced an Israeli to eight years in prison on Friday after convicting him of attempting to smuggle Ecstasy into the country, according to friends of his family.
The Israeli, who was a minor at the time of the crime, is the youngest of three yeshiva students arrested a year ago while attempting to enter Japan with suitcases containing large quantities of Ecstasy pills.
The other two Israelis, Yoel Goldstein and Yaakov Yosef Grinwald, are still waiting to face trial.
Goldstein, Grinwald and the minor were arrested in April 2008 at Tokyo's Narita International airport after arriving on a flight from Amsterdam. Customs officials found that they were carrying 90,000 Ecstasy pills after suspicions were raised over their large suitcases.
The affair has caused shockwaves in the Satmar Hasidic ultra-orthodox community to which the three men belong.
Two more Satmar Hasidim are suspected of being behind the operation: Haim Roter is believed to have fled to Europe and Ben Zion Miller was arrested in Israel in February.
Police believe Miller worked for an Israeli criminal organization that they suspect is connected to the Abergil family.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/japan-sentences-hasidic-israeli-to-8-years...
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Decrees like this are nothing new. Re: the 2004 tsunami:
Former Israeli chief rabbi quoted as saying tsunami divine punishment for Gaza pullout support
AP Worldstream
01-31-2005
Dateline: JERUSALEM
The tsunami that ravaged southern Asia last month was God's punishment for world support for Israel's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, a former Israeli chief rabbi has been quoted as saying.
"When the Holy One, Blessed be He, is angry with the nations of the world that don't help Israel _ but want to evacuate and disengage, and interfere in our affairs and harm us _ then the Holy One, Blessed be He, claps his hands in sadness, and this causes the quake," Rabbi Mordechai Eliahu was quoted as telling the ultra-Orthodox Ma'ayanei …
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-104935102.html