diff --git a/Unicode/Unicode.pm b/Unicode/Unicode.pm
index 646d14b..48d07d5 100644
--- a/Unicode/Unicode.pm
+++ b/Unicode/Unicode.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package Encode::Unicode;
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-no warnings 'redefine';
 
 our $VERSION = do { my @r = ( q$Revision: 2.15 $ =~ /\d+/g ); sprintf "%d." . "%02d" x $#r, @r };
 
@@ -13,7 +12,7 @@ XSLoader::load( __PACKAGE__, $VERSION );
 # Object Generator 8 transcoders all at once!
 #
 
-require Encode;
+use Encode ();
 
 our %BOM_Unknown = map { $_ => 1 } qw(UTF-16 UTF-32);
 
diff --git a/lib/Encode/Alias.pm b/lib/Encode/Alias.pm
index 0a25256..bd31a4e 100644
--- a/lib/Encode/Alias.pm
+++ b/lib/Encode/Alias.pm
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 package Encode::Alias;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-no warnings 'redefine';
 our $VERSION = do { my @r = ( q$Revision: 2.21 $ =~ /\d+/g ); sprintf "%d." . "%02d" x $#r, @r };
 use constant DEBUG => !!$ENV{PERL_ENCODE_DEBUG};
 
+use Encode ();
+
 use Exporter 'import';
 
 # Public, encouraged API is exported by default
@@ -19,7 +20,6 @@ our @Alias;    # ordered matching list
 our %Alias;    # cached known aliases
 
 sub find_alias {
-    require Encode;
     my $class = shift;
     my $find  = shift;
     unless ( exists $Alias{$find} ) {
@@ -134,7 +134,6 @@ sub undef_aliases {
 }
 
 sub init_aliases {
-    require Encode;
     undef_aliases();
 
     # Try all-lower-case version should all else fails
diff --git a/lib/Encode/Encoding.pm b/lib/Encode/Encoding.pm
index 6b7aae1..1df2140 100644
--- a/lib/Encode/Encoding.pm
+++ b/lib/Encode/Encoding.pm
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ our $VERSION = do { my @r = ( q$Revision: 2.7 $ =~ /\d+/g ); sprintf "%d." . "%0
 
 our @CARP_NOT = qw(Encode Encode::Encoder);
 
-require Encode;
+use Carp ();
+use Encode ();
+use Encode::MIME::Name;
 
 sub DEBUG { 0 }
 
@@ -22,13 +24,10 @@ sub Define {
 
 sub name { return shift->{'Name'} }
 
-sub mime_name{
-    require Encode::MIME::Name;
+sub mime_name {
     return Encode::MIME::Name::get_mime_name(shift->name);
 }
 
-# sub renew { return $_[0] }
-
 sub renew {
     my $self = shift;
     my $clone = bless {%$self} => ref($self);
@@ -58,14 +57,12 @@ sub fromUnicode { shift->encode(@_) }
 #
 
 sub encode {
-    require Carp;
     my $obj = shift;
     my $class = ref($obj) ? ref($obj) : $obj;
     Carp::croak( $class . "->encode() not defined!" );
 }
 
 sub decode {
-    require Carp;
     my $obj = shift;
     my $class = ref($obj) ? ref($obj) : $obj;
     Carp::croak( $class . "->encode() not defined!" );
@@ -190,7 +187,6 @@ MUST return the string representing the canonical name of the encoding.
 Predefined As:
 
   sub mime_name{
-    require Encode::MIME::Name;
     return Encode::MIME::Name::get_mime_name(shift->name);
   }
 
diff --git a/lib/Encode/Unicode/UTF7.pm b/lib/Encode/Unicode/UTF7.pm
index e9ba62e..dd10124 100644
--- a/lib/Encode/Unicode/UTF7.pm
+++ b/lib/Encode/Unicode/UTF7.pm
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@
 package Encode::Unicode::UTF7;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-no warnings 'redefine';
 use parent qw(Encode::Encoding);
 __PACKAGE__->Define('UTF-7');
 our $VERSION = do { my @r = ( q$Revision: 2.9 $ =~ /\d+/g ); sprintf "%d." . "%02d" x $#r, @r };
 use MIME::Base64;
-use Encode;
+use Encode qw(find_encoding);
 
 #
 # Algorithms taken from Unicode::String by Gisle Aas