EMS restrictions

[Stephen]

Anyone else that deals with the issue?

[PNSSHOGUN]

Vintage military artifact is a winner. I can understand why buyee doesn't deal with swords due to the long process of having them exported. Of course they could setup a team to do it but it's probably simply not worth the effort or headache.

[Ken-Hawaii]

Yeah, but an old military dagger isn't a Nihonto.

[sabiji]

I recently bought an Nihonto in Japan for a friend. After paying, the seller suddenly said that there had been new regulations for airfreight shipping. It could happen that EMS rejects the shipment. Then only shipping by ship would remain. Finally, the dealer could send the sword via EMS. The package was marked with a sticker "dangerous tool inside".
That was about 5 weeks ago. At that time, I could not find a clue anywhere (in forums, at traders), and thought it was a bad joke.
But there must seem to have been changes to the rules governing shipments of goods by plane in Japan ... or the changes are coming soon ...

[PNSSHOGUN]

Yeah, but an old military dagger isn't a Nihonto.

Neither are Tsuba or Koshirae but they all get unceremoniously lumped together by buyee!

[Ken-Hawaii]

Oh, no argument about that, John! That's why I'm almost done setting up a more-friendly way to get items from Japan to elsewhere. More nes on that as we work the bugs out.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Ken that's great news, look forward to hearing more about it when ready. There's been a gap in the market for decades just waiting for someone to come along and fix it.