The Beef Jerky in Your Bag Is a Criminal Offence at Japanese Arrivals
To say No, I don't have any in Japanese, say いいえ、持っていません (iie, motte imasen).
There's a beagle working Japanese arrivals, and it is not there to say hello. It's there for the snacks in your bag.
Kanji in this phrase
- 肉製品
- にくせいひん
- 持って
- もって
- 持っていません
- もっていません
- 動物検疫
- どうぶつけんえき
Why this phrase
Animal quarantine in the customs hall. Hana plays the quarantine officer, Kofuku plays the traveller with jerky in his bag. She asks 肉製品はお持ちですか, and the answer he needs is いいえ、持っていません. Beef, pork and chicken products are barred without an export certificate no tourist has, so declaring it doesn't make it legal, it just means you hand it over instead of breaking the law. On paper the penalty runs up to three years or three million yen, but that's the statutory ceiling: in practice a tourist loses the jerky and gets their passport logged, and enforcement got a lot stricter in 2019.
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