Gladly, 99% of the parts comes from mainland and since I'm in okinawa I need a way to transfer the money to the seller's bank account. Inorder to transfer money to the seller's bank account you yourself must have a bank account. Since I don't speak japanese (very well), I don't have a japanese bank account. This is where a japanese friend comes into play, usually a female

. Transfering to a bank account is THE way they transfer money, they don't use paypal or checks or whatever. Lastly you need to know someone to ship it to, this isn't too difficult as many of my co-works live "off-base". And 99% of the people on the auctions won't ship outside the country. I suppose if I spoke fluent japanese and lived off-base I'd be all set. How's that?