Important requests to all visitors to Japan to prevent livestock diseases

In Japan, bringing in meat products is prohibited to prevent livestock diseases such as foot and mouth disease and swine fever. Please cooperate and abide by the rules during your trip.

2025.04.30

Requests to all visitors to Japan

Meat products, fruits, vegetables, etc. cannot be brought into Japan

・You cannot send them by international mail. Do not send meat products, fruits, vegetables, etc. to family or friends in your home country by international mail.

Please tell them so.

(If you have received uninspected meat products, fruits, vegetables, etc. via international mail, please contact the Animal Quarantine Station or Plant Quarantine Station.)

・Please do not bring dirty work clothes, work shoes or boots used overseas.

・Do not touch livestock from overseas within one week before coming to Japan, and do not touch livestock for one week after arriving in Japan.

・Bringing meat products, fruits, vegetables, etc. from overseas into Japan is strictly restricted by law.

・Illegally bringing meat products, fruits, vegetables, etc. into Japan will be heavily penalized (up to 3 years in prison or up to 3 million yen).

(For corporations, fines of up to 50 million yen will be imposed.)

・If we determine that the bringing in of items is malicious, we will report it to the police.

-Some people have been arrested for illegally bringing in the drug.

・If you are carrying any livestock products that cannot be imported, you may be denied entry.

Classical Swine Fever

To all climbers, campers and those working in the forest

Please help prevent the spread of the swine fever virus.

A disease called swine fever is spreading among wild boars. It does not infect humans, but

It infects pigs and causes great damage to the pig farming industry.

Please help us not to bring the virus back from the forest.

1. The virus is also contained in soil. Wash off the mud from your shoes by going to the mountains.

② Please take any leftover food home with you to avoid attracting wild boars.

③Do not approach facilities where livestock are kept.

④If you find a dead wild boar, please contact your local government.

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