The curse of not living in The United States raises it head again. I would gladly lay cash down today for the preorder.

If it hurts, then solve it - startup idea: In Japan there is a company called tenso.com that will ship to anywhere so you can buy products for the Japanese market and have them shipped to your local tenso Japanese address. They box it up and forward to you where ever you are - for a nice fee. Not sure if this exists here in the US, but maybe you should create it if there is a market.

There's are a number of services in the US for shipping US products overseas such as http://www.shipito.com/

These guys (a guy and a gal) will send it to you. http://wesendtoyou.com/

I think they will receive your Amazon package, for example, unpack‡, and repackage and relabel to your JP address.

‡I think that's to ensure nothing banned by the destination country gets sent (and get the shipper in trouble). Anyhow, buyer beware.