[timelesssymphony]

So this is a question for residents of Japan, I am currently in a dilemma my friend wants a decorative Katana from Japan so I go and drop about 10,000 yen on one for him and go to the post office with it all packed up nice and pretty. The clerk measures it and measures it and says its to big, so as I'm walking out she's like wait you could send it EMS but then she checks and says Japan Post does not ship such a thing (even though I told her 6 times it wasn't real >.<) So I go to DHL they want 13,000 yen to ship it and FedEx is near the same, Do you guys have any suggestions? I can't bring myself to pay 13,000 yen to ship something that light weight and not that big! I miss the US postal service.