"CL" <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:gs5u8c$q1c$1@news.motzarella.org...
> Marvel wrote:
>> Is there any equivalent pain reliever to Ibuprofen in Japan.
>>
>> aka Motrin, Advil
>>
>> I have no idea how to cross reference.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>
> IIRC, ibuprofen is a prescription drug in Wa and you have to go see you 
> local tax-stealing quack to get any.  You could also ask a pharmacist at 
> one of the many small drug distribution shops across from the hospitals 
> or, if you want it right away, the pharmacist at a major drug chain like 
> Matsumoto Kiyoshi or Terashima (I'm in northern Kanto so your choices may 
> not have the same names) has most of what is permissible to sell already 
> in stock ... but under the counter in many cases.
>
> BTW, just because you're talking to someone in a white lab coat do not 
> automatically assume they know WTF they are talking about, although there 
> is always one of them who does.  Finding THAT one is not a problem we can 
> assist with at this distance.
>
> -- 
> CL
>
And all this time I thought the guy in the white lab coat was a genius.

So he is really just moonlighting from his Fotomat job huh?

Thanks for the info CL.

...do you think it is legal to get them in the mail from U.S.A.?

The way they tax pipe tobacco I am afraid to think what they might do with a 
medicine.

Marvel