Media Mail

Hello everyone, needing some insights for our upcoming move to Japan in March. 🙂 My girlfriend will be starting a job as a university researcher, and I'll be continuing my language and architecture studies.

We were originally planning to ship our academic books from San Francisco to Japan through the USPS M-Bag. Unfortunately, as of January 2025 Japan is no longer accepting these (according to the USPS website, and the post offices that I've spoken to). We've already accounted for scanning, re-buying, and reducing what we intend to bring, but are still left with quite a few books that we want to have physically on hand.

I am wondering if the community knows of any other options are available for media mail (if any), or if Yamato Shipping (TA-Q-BIN Besso) is the only way to go for these.

ありがとうございます。