Japanese kanji keyboard on my new MB?!?!?!?

Just got my custom new aluminum MB in the mail and it's got kanji characters along with English characters on the keyboard and the keyboard is not laid out like a US keyboard. I was assuming it would look like the one pictured at Apple's site! I'm assuming I just need to return this, but is a serious buzzkill. Wanted to know if anyone else experienced this. A search for Japanese keyboard on the new MB forums didn't yield any info, but thought I'd as anyway...

Just got my custom new aluminum MB in the mail and it's got kanji characters along with English characters on the keyboard and the keyboard is not laid out like a US keyboard.
Who shipped you that MB? In the past the only way people who wanted the special JIS Japanese keyboard could get one was to buy the machine in Japan, or buy the keyboard separately and replace the original.

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