Pens categorized as weapons held at warehouse

GIFU, Japan - Photo taken on July 4, 2012, shows pens, including Smith & Wesson ballpoint pen (upper) and a Schrade Walden fountain pen (C), at knife merchant Yamahide Cutlery Mfg. Inc. in Seki, Gifu Prefecture. More than 200 American-made fountain pens and ballpoint pens, including products made by the companies mentioned above, have been held at a Chubu airport warehouse in Nagoya since the spring of 2011 after customs categorized them as weapons, denying them importation as stationery items, according to customs officials and importer.

• Product Code
• ILEA001171570

• Registered date
• 2012/7/13 00:00:00

• Credit
• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• 2012 Kyodo News

• Media size
• 3119 × 1890 pixel

• Resolution
• 240 dpi

• Deployment size
• 639.56(KB)*

• Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.