Most places that sell used cars in japan will not ship to a person. I have spoken with a few dealers over there and they all say the same thing. They have to ship the car to a licensed importer and they have to perform the required modifications. He said that it would probably cost around 9k extra.

Moral of the story.... your piece of **** civic that you "paid" 3k for will wind up cosing you 20k when it is all said and done with shipping costs, import costs, export costs, deregistration and emission mods.

Have fun with that