Any television receiver brought in from outside Japan is likely not to work. The standards are simply different. And if it involves a satellite, you're screwed. From Japan, the satellites that broadcast to the UK are clean on the other side of the mostly-round Earth. As for the settings, those are almost certainly based on the local environment and, even if you got the box to work, your old settings would probably net you a completely different compliment of channels.

That said, I feel I should also include the disclaimer that I've never tried this and am only going by technical data that I've read. YMMV. For example, even though the FM radio broadcast band in Japan is offset from what it is in the States, there is some overlap so US-made radios *can* pick up some FM broadcasts -- just not all of them.

Synthia: I'm not sure what "flipflop" you're referring to. I must have missed something.