It is apparently prohibited to transport cashew (red or black), cashew base
or cashew thinners on commercial flights leaving Japan as they are
considered hazardous.
Dave
>Why were the paints taken? Is there a law about exporting them, or are they
>consdidered dangerous to have on a plane?
>
>-Pizmeyre
>
> > I've just returned from Japan. At the Narita Airport I was stopped and my
> > bags were opened. What they didn't like was a bottles of cashew Urushi
>paint
> > that I needed for fixing ceramics( Kintsugi) with cashew and gold powder.
>I
> > had two containers and to my great disappointment, they were confiscated.
> >
> > Now I wonder what I could buy to replace this very high quality cashew
> > urushi paint. If you have any information, I would appreciate it very
>much.
> >
> > Aiko Ichimura
> > aikop@erols.com
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