I don't know about AM, but the FM band is the same; should work fine.
Have you tried it? (At least the stuff I have worked fine in Japan and in
the US.)
-Dondo
I thought the FM band in Japan was a smaller segment and/or started
lower in the spectrum than in North America.
Channel spacing, on both the AM and FM bands vary from country to country.
So in some countries (and I don't know if it applies to Japan) the spacing
on AM is 9KHz apart. Likewise FM has a different spacing. It means
virtually nothing with an analog tuner, but with digitally tuned radios,
it can mean most stations can't be tuned in. Also, the spacing difference
may not be noticeable on FM. In North America, FM channels are 200KHz
apart, but the spacing elsewhere is different. But if the radio tunes
every 100KHz, like one I had, one will not notice if you are in North
America or elsewhere, but that smaller increment works on both schemes.
Michael