help in buying magazines in japan

[lostconfused]

Hi all, longtime lurker here with some pressing questions. Hopefully this is the right place to ask it. Anyways, I went on a blind shopping spree using an auction deputy service for a bunch of magazines off of the Yahoo Japan auction site. Now I'm not sure if it's OK to have them sent to the USA, or if customs is going to give me a lot of hassle about it. I went off the images in the auctions, which are just covers and not much to go by, and I have no idea what the content is. So here are my questions:

1) Are these magazines going to cause trouble?
2) Where/how could I find someone in Japan to scan them for me instead? (right now the deputy service is just sitting on them until I tell them to ship it, I'd also save on shipping costs this way and someone else gets ~40 free magazines)

A partial list of magazines is 熱烈投稿, 台風クラブ, スーパー写真.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[guy]

Generally speaking, if they're magazines that you can find on amazon.co.jp, then there shouldn't be anything illegal with their content and you should have no problems importing them into USA (after all, Amazon JP ships directly to USA). But I can't say for sure because I don't know the full list of magazines and what exactly they contain, and I certainly can't predict whether the customs officer will be having a good day and simply ignore your package, or if he'll be upset and randomly confiscate packages for no good reason.
:dunno:

But trying to find someone in Japan to scan them for you will be pretty difficult.

 

[lostconfused]

Darn, I was hoping that wouldn't be the case. Unfortunately all of these are old (used) and therefore really cheap, but not available on Amazon JP. If it is that hard to find someone in Japan to help scan/inspect them I may just have to give up. Hopefully someone will miraculously chime in to help

 

[wetwet]

Yes, I agreed. As long as the contents do not infringe stuff like child porno, it should be OK.

 

[nosihc]

japanese buying J-mag have never being difficult...
but actually scanning 40 magazine say 300page each required lots of times and patience to fap the page,scan ,save,and convence files,upload...
scan one voloume of comic require around half a days of work...

and some scanner even have to breakup-page of the mag to give the best scan result

 

[lostconfused]

Yeah, it would be a big effort, but at this point the curiosity of what's in the magazines is driving me crazy, not to mention having them so close to being in my hands and yet so far away. I might just have to get them shipped, or pay someone to scan them if somehow I can find someone willing. Does anyone know where I could even begin to look for someone who would do that for a fee (other forums, etc)?

edit: I *think* the content is similar to that of stuff in things like "Beppin School" or the like, if anyone can tell me if those are OK to import.