Problem changing address format

I live in Japan, and therefore have lots of Japanese addresses. When I imported these addresses into Address book, it automatically put them in 'Japan' address format (although I have UK format specified in the preferences). Japan format is more or less the opposite of UK or USA format, with post code and city first, and street address last.
However, Japan format is only used if the address is in Japanese script. Otherwise the addresses are written in UK format. Therefore, I set about changing the formats. However, when I change the format, Address Book automatically puts the words 'United Kingdom' in the country field. I then have to change it to 'Japan'. As I have about a thousand addresses, this is pretty infuriating.
Is there anyway to change this behaviour, so that the country is not automatically inserted?

Unfortunately you may have to clear out the country field before changing the format.

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I've recently changed from pc to mac (yay) and have imported all my contacts into address book.
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I'd like to change the address formats to the appropriate ones, but so far have only been figure out how to do that one at a time, or all together.
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property CountryCode : {missing value:"us", USA:"us", Netherlands:"nl", UK:"uk"}
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repeat with aPerson in people
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