necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote:
> "Brett Robson" <deep_m_m@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cjait6$ds4$1@nnrp.gol.com...

>> The OP still doesn't know. Does he have to learn to read Japanese
>> before he travels to Japan?

> No, not at all. If he gets hauled before a judge for carrying the wrong kind
> of knife, all he has to do is say, "your honor, I had no idea it was against
> the law" (or have his interpreter relay the message) and he will promptly be
> set free...

Actually, since he has to check the knife in these days, all he has to
do is declare it at customs.

Mike