As for international shipment.
Most probably it won't work because Li-Ion batteries are almost impossible to ship from Japan (and anything containing such batteries also)
Mine was bought at Amazon Japan by a friend who works there, my only problem was that all the manuals, language used in the camera was all purist Japanese.. that's the only head ache i'm facing rightnow..
Got mine on ebay. As Vitaliy says after he shipped it out they returned to sender and he had to separate the battery from the camera and ship separately. Got here in the end and I am really digging this camera.