[jasonbvr]

Furniture? Your company is paying for this, aren't they? Anyways, tax. Never heard of anyone being taxed for bringing their own junk into Japan. If you are shipping a car, that would be a different story. If you are bringing a pet, that is also a different (and complicated) story. Other than those two things, alcohol is about the only other thing I can see them taxing. Japan's government loves their alcohol revenues.