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A: No, this is not possible.
Service delivery is the only person who lives in Japan. (Article 6 of the Terms and Conditions)
It should be noted, also available is of foreign nationality who, if you live in Japan.
I speak fluent Japanese, and yes, what Kuro quoted is correct.
Here's an okay alternative who have English support in the meantime: http://tsukaeru.net/
Have scans of IDs and censored scan of CC ready.
http://bgp.he.net/AS9370
For all sakura.ad.jp services, you need to be in Japan. You can get this lifted if you know someone in Japan willing to verify for you though.
Atleast that's how it used to be back when I still had them (10mbit dedi in Osaka), I just colo with scnet in Equinix now.
Why do they all require such high identification?
Partially xenophobia. Primarily to avoid scams, legal issues, etc. I'm sure plenty of weeaboos would jump to get a JP VPS; but how many of them actually know the local laws, or are even close enough to being fluent to comprehend a TOS/AUP?
Because 99% of these companies only have Japanese speaking staff, they'd rather not get into the hassle of dealing with overseas morons (read: weaboos).
It's something I noticed after coming here, very few companies here wish to expand to the west and beyond. They're content with what they have.
@William Any luck with Ukrainian vpses?
Everyone is so overpriced over there, ugh.
@wintereise infiumhost.com has quite decent prices.
JP VPS is way cheaper than anything you can find here, only if you know Japanese.
1200 something JPY (~15USD) can get you a 2G KVM. (Not sakura, they require JP physical address which is suck. They will mail you a physical letter with an activation code, total paranoid)
dream.jp is on a campaign which lets you try for free for two months. Performance is just so-so.
What is "JP VPS", how about an URL? As you can imagine, googling for it doesn't help much.
And if you don't, there's http://translate.google.com/ and the Chrome/Chromium browser.
@rm_ it sounds like he was meaning you can get VPSs in Japan cheaper (value wise) than what can be found on lowendbox/lowendtalk (or maybe he meant his home country, which he did not meantion...).
LOL. What i meant is Japan. GMO, DTI, Sakura, KDDI, etc are all providing decent VPS services, these are listing companies in Tokyo Stock Exchange. Price range about the same.
The problem is not translating the Japanese alone. You need to have email conversation with those frontdeskers. Besides google translate, you need to know a bit of Japanese to make the conversation smooth and useful.
I am sure most people at tech positions in Japan speak good English.
Japan people can read/write well. But the accent is not easy to listen because of how they learn english.
And the other problem is, I guess if you write to them in English, you will be replied slower (and maybe a chance of being mis-understood).
Blah...
What all this boils down to, is a company either allows foreign orders, or it doesn't.
If they do, they will have English-speaking staff, English website and support.
If they don't, they will not even have your country listed on the countries selection list when you try to sign up in the first place, so everything else is totally moot.
i can tell you that even they dont have an english site they still accept foreign orders. Wont post anymore, too many trolls. :<