Japanese phone manufacturers make GSM phones mostly for the Chinese market unless it supports UMTS as well it won't be very useful in japan.
That said, as soon as it gets picked up by the hong-kong resellers you should be able to get one shipped to the good old USA... assuming it has an fcc-id or sneaks through customs as another brand of phone (chinese phone pie-rats are a creative lot).
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Japanese phone manufacturers make GSM phones mostly for the Chinese market unless it supports UMTS as well it won't be very useful in japan.
That said, as soon as it gets picked up by the hong-kong resellers you should be able to get one shipped to the good old USA... assuming it has an fcc-id or sneaks through customs as another brand of phone (chinese phone pie-rats are a creative lot).