Underground Trade in ‘Miracle’ Weight-Loss Drugs: Osaka Police Crack Down on Illegal Mounjaro Sales
OSAKA – The surging global demand for weight-loss pharmaceuticals has birthed a dangerous shadow market in Japan. On Tuesday, the Osaka Prefectural Police took decisive action, forwarding the cases of…
The Shadow Market: Japan’s Struggle with the Illicit Trade of GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs
The modern landscape of body image, medical regulation, and social pressure in Japan has birthed a complex and dangerous underground economy. While global interest in GLP-1 receptor agonists—the class of…








