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I have a couple of questions.
1. Do you need to type/input in Japanese?
2. What part of Japan are you going to be in?
3. Do you want to input in Japanese after you return to the States?
You may want to consider buying your laptop in Japan, with a Japanese keyboard. Most laptops there will automatically adjust to proper electric cycles, saving you from dragging a converter around with you. (FYI: Western Japan runs on 50 cycles, Eastern Japan on 60 cycles).
If you buy your laptop there, wipe the hard drive of it's native OS, install a native English OS (2000 or XP) with Japanese language support, and you're good to hook. If you buy the laptop there, you can use it in the States without a converter because it will automatically detect the cycles. Plus you would have a Japanese keyboard, which is uber necessary if you want to input in kana.
If your going to work in English only, look at the above comments.
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