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I know Japan is especially strict about exporting swords and other edged weapons for cultural reasons. There was a lot of national angst over the number of heirloom swords that were lost to American GIs during WWII (lots of those "trophy" swords were just mass produced army issue, but a supprising number of them were family antique blades remounted with contemporary handles and scabards)I thought they were actually fairly strict. When I was looking into getting swords made from Japan there was a lot of procedure and paperwork to go through.