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Originally Posted by Henbaka
Maybe I can steal this thread for a quick question.
If you have a perscription for some medicine in your (foreign country), how would you go about to get it in Japan? I'm not speaking of some weird drug that's restricted or so. Do they have the equivalent of pharmacies or something?
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Yes, they do, all over the place. There are dedicated pharmacies, and little pharmacies in most all "drug stores".
However, they will not fill a prescription written outside of Japan. What you do is get a prescription and if possible a note explaining why you need it in your home country, take that to a doctor in Japan (medical terminology is largely identical, drug names - or rather, compound names not brand names - are written identically so the doctor will be able to read it without translation.) and get him to write the equivalent prescription in Japanese... And take that to a pharmacy if they don`t immediately fill it at the doctor`s.
Unless the drug is something which is restricted, then as far as I know it`s a pretty smooth process. If it is something restricted, they will just need to confirm that you do indeed have a condition which requires it.