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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.

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THE GREEN SCARF

THE GREEN SCARF [BRITAIN 1954] A portrait of actor MICHAEL MEDWIN in his role of a shp's steward. Date: 1954

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Mitsubishi Pencil's erasable pen

File photo shows Mitsubishi Pencil Co.'s erasable ballpoint pen, the uni-ball R:E 3. The pen writes in three color and set to hit the market on Nov. 29. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo