Buy From Japan Guide

日本限定商品の海外からの購入方法(英語)

• Bottom line: a lottery preorder means "apply now, pay only if you win"

  Found a Japanese figure/book/merch preorder that uses a lottery ("chusen") system and doesn't understand the rules, deadlines, or why a proxy seems to be requir

• Bottom line: it depends on whether you already found the item

  Wants to buy something only sold in Japan (or only to Japanese addresses) and doesn't know whether to use a "proxy buyer" or a "package forwarder", or how the f

• Bottom line: one question decides your whole path

  Wants a Japanese-exclusive item (figure, book, limited merch) and doesn't know where to start — proxy, forwarding, lottery, direct shipping all sound like diffe