Sorry to mislead you guys, but sky box is a colloquial terms we British use to describe the receiver used to collect the signals that Rupert Murdoch's company - Sky transmits around the world. I wondered if I could bring that with me so that I could continue to enjoy all my settings/favourites etc. My thinking was that as Japan is in a diffent hemisphere would the satellites' direction allow/prevent it? I didn't think that Japan was in any way a backward nation.