I am moving to Japan soon on a student visa. I have previously studied abroad in Japan, but it was almost ten years ago now. I am already bringing medication with me that will require me to fill out an import certificate, but I am also bringing with me common OTC medications from the US and am wondering if I also need to include them with my Yunyu Kakunin-sho. I would have thought that a bottle of Ibuprofen or something wouldn't be worthy of declaring, but the example form on the ministry of health's website literally shows how to fill the paperwork out for bringing one hundred 200mg aspirin tablets. I was planning on taking a bottle with approximately two hundred tablets of 250mg acetaminophen, since I will be staying for multiple years, and I remember how totally useless over the counter pain medications were. Has anyone had any issue not declaring OTC meds like this? I know that you need to show a prescription for medications you're importing, and I guess I don't think my doctor would mind doing that, but it seems kind of silly to have her write me a prescription for Advil, Tums, Pepto Bismol, etc.
Thanks!
by treelectric