[News]
August 26
Starting August 27, 2025, Japan Post will temporarily suspend the acceptance of postal items (Small Packets, parcels, and EMS (goods)) to the United States that contain the following items:
Individual gifts with a content value exceeding 100 US dollars
Goods intended for sale for consumption
because the U.S. government issued an executive order titled "Termination of De Minimis Treatment for All Countries".
So, please do not order items totaling over 100 USD all at once at our official store and bandcamp, if you live in the U.S. (We mean that U.S. residents still can order items totaling under 100 USD all at once.)
The details: https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2025/0825_01_en.html
－ Juta Takahashi, Lunisolar Records
April 1, 2025
"Miyabi" has got selected as one of Monthly Top 20 Albums for March, 2025 at Galactic Travels™.
Thanks so much, Mr. Bill Fox!
October 2
"Miyabi" has got selected as one of Monthly Top 20 Albums for September, 2024 at Galactic Travels™.
We thank Bill Fox for selecting a little old album.
September 15
Postage for Small Packets by Japan Post, the cheapest and most widely accepted way to send goods outside Japan by air, has approximately doubled since April 1, 2021. In particular, the postage to the USA has nearly tripled! It costs about 8 USD to USA and 5 EUR to Europe per one CD now. Reluctantly, we couldn't help raising our shipping rates. We feel the rates are high enough to make people outside Japan discourage to buy CDs from us. We considered reducing weight of CD by selecting digipak or eco-wallet, but they don't lower postage dramatically and besides the costs of CD manufacturing raise rather than selecting jewel case.
Moreover, Japan Post didn't accept Small Packets by air destined to North America and many of European countries, due to serious reduction of flights from Japan, from November 2, 2021 to October 1, 2023 (for about two years!). No one knows what will happen next.
On this occasion, we're seriously considering we don't press CDs but release music only digitally from this point forward. "Journey" might be the final CD release from us.
－ Juta Takahashi, Lunisolar Records
August 15
We're proud to announce that Juta's new (18th) album, "Journey", has been released today (August 15). The details are here and the full previews are here.
August 10, 2024 Prêt!
October 1 At last, Japan Post has resumed accepting Small Packets by air destined to North America and many of the European countries after about 2-year hiatus! Along with that, now we can ship physical items outside Japan at low cost as before by air. However, please note that they've also raised international postage rates, due to the rise in both transportation and delivery costs overseas.
August 6, 2023 Japan Post hasn't been accepting Small Packets by air destined to North America and many of European countries, due to serious reduction of flights from Japan, since November 2, 2021. Since we can't ship physical items outside Japan at low cost as before, we've stopped receiving orders for them from overseas. God only knows when Japan Post resumes accepting Small Packets by air destined to these areas.
21 months seem too long and we've decided to ship items using EMS (Express Mail Service) by Japan Post and resume receiving orders from overseas only at bandcamp, until they resume accepting Small Packets. Small Packets is the cheapest and most widely accepted way to send goods outside Japan by air, and EMS is the second cheapest one. Since EMS is registered mail service, you need to sign for your item. If you feel the shipping fees are expensive, please wait for the resumption of Small Packets.
We're unwilling to use sea mail, because it takes a long while (about a few months) and has risks of loss.
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