I am going to Japan for a couple of months for school soon and I am in the process of making sure I can bring more than one month of my medicine with me. I’m a little confused as to what the next step is and I figured I might get an answer quicker here than by email. My Yunyu Kakunin-sho has been certified and they mentioned contacting UPS. What are they talking about? Am I supposed ship my medicine? Are they talking about something else entirely?
Here is the text copied directly from the email from the ministry of health:
“Attached is the certificated “Yunyu Kakunin-sho”.
Please contact to UPS and inform them that you have obtained and submit it.”
Any help would be appreciated.
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**Yunyu Kakunin-sho question**
I am going to Japan for a couple of months for school soon and I am in the process of making sure I can bring more than one month of my medicine with me. I’m a little confused as to what the next step is and I figured I might get an answer quicker here than by email. My Yunyu Kakunin-sho has been certified and they mentioned contacting UPS. What are they talking about? Am I supposed ship my medicine? Are they talking about something else entirely?
Here is the text copied directly from the email from the ministry of health:
“Attached is the certificated “Yunyu Kakunin-sho”.
Please contact to UPS and inform them that you have obtained and submit it.”
Any help would be appreciated.
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They may have misunderstood and thought you were shipping your meds independently. Bring your meds with you and a printed copy of the Yunyu Kakunin-sho and, assuming the drugs you’re bringing are legal in Japan, you should have no issues when you enter the country.
The above is basically exactly what I did, and they never even looked at my drugs or paperwork. It’s good to be prepared, though.
Unless you mentioned having it shipped to you on your request (forms 12 & 14) they could just be confused. As long you have their form that is stamped and the correct amount that you requested to bring, I think you should be okay.
Doing this myself tomorrow for the first time so I will let you know how it goes but I really don’t expect any issue.