US users can't buy from other country's itunes

Question

As the first line in the Terms of Service in the Japanese iTunes states.
"Purchases from "this" iTunes store are available to you only in Japan and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use "these" services outside of the available territory...."
I may just be reading the first line so their may be more to this but so far I find it completely asinine that I'm unable to buy Japanese songs from the Japanese iTunes. It's very hard to find current non-anime related Japanese artist on the internet.
If you can help me at all, please do. (Sad Angry Face)
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Answer 1

This comes up all the time. You have to have a valid billing address and credit card from a certain country to buy from that store. It is not up to Apple - it is up to the folks who hold the rights to the Japanese songs.
Here is a post from forum regular Dave Sawyer that pretty much sums it up:
+This has been covered here literally dozens of times, but once again: the content owners do not allow cross-border sales from any of the legal download stores. You must therefore have legal residence in the country of the iTunes Store you wish to use. So in order to buy from another country's iTunes Store, you must (as proof of residence) have either:+
+a) a credit card issued by a bank in that country with a billing address also in that country, or+
+b) a mailing address for your residence in that country and a gift certificate or a prepaid card that was bought in that country.+
+If you cannot fulfill one of these two sets of conditions, you will not be able to purchase from any given country's iTMS.+
+This, again, is due to restrictions placed on Apple by the record companies and other rights holders (who are often completely different from country to country and so all require their own individual negotiations and contracts), not by Apple's choice.+