The latest trial of Tashiro Masashi (48) started yesterday. He is being tried on charges of marijuana and amphetamine use while on probation for an earlier drug offense. He was arrested in September while driving in Tokyo with a woman named as Fukui Setsuko (38). She claimed he convinced her that sex would be better on drugs and that she hadn’t been able to refuse for fear of angering him. The former musician and variety show star has seen his life fall apart in the last few years. It started when he was caught filming up a woman’s skirt at a train station in 2000. He was later arrested for peeping into a man’s bathroom and again for drug possession. He was given a 2-year sentence, suspended for 3 years, in 2002. In the meantime, he also caused a traffic accident in June. He is expected to have to serve a prison sentence this time around.