nikoneko wrote:Here is the link: http://www.aandf.co.jp/knife/index.html
Which is just a copy of this: http://www.jkg.jp/law.htm
Someone with better translation skills than me will have to help out though, my wife helped me figure out the harder parts.
Really the whole thing needs to be read but here are a couple of relevant parts:
Excellent. That answers most of my questions.
Couldn't be arsed translating the whole thing, so I'll leave that to someone with the necessary will and free time.
But basically, taking a knife you've just bought home or to the shop for repair is considered a legitimate reason for carrying. Transporting a fishing or survival knife to and from the fishing or hiking grounds is OK too. A cook can carry his own knife to and from his restaurant. Of course there are other valid reasons along the same lines, but in all cases the knife must be well packed and protected during transport.
Sounds fair enough, unless you get some a-hole cop who decides to push his powers of discretion to the limit.
