Ith i totally didn't think about it..
I don't have the money right now but how much longer are you in Japan?

After doing a quick check it looks like blu-ray movies and all the ps3 games work fine on jap ps3's while dvd's and ps2/1 games don't..which is fine..

only question i couldn't find an answer to is if i try to play online games like fifa/cod3 will i be playing in the U.S. Japan or internationally? Anybody find an answer to that?

yeah man ill be here for another year. u might wanna look and see if you can change the menu language ive always known it was region free ill ask around and see if anyone knows about the online thing

I wanna move to Japan and be an english teacher like a buddy of mine...

That may not ever happen, but I am at least going to learn the language. I am going to start going to night classes at a community college around here after I graduate from my current school with my networking degree.

Heh, we were sposed to be stationed in Japan right now :( It was our follow-on after Turkey but my Wife's mother got real sick and we put in to come state-side so it would be easier to be with her.

that sucks khaoz sorry to hear that... where were you trying to go mainland or okinawa?