No, and this is a commonly made mistake.
AM/FM tuners are still sought after for their high performance with high-quality analog FM stereo signals. In Australia, the FM broadcast band is 88 – 108 MHz, so any tuner you purchase needs to cover that same frequency band. Tuners from Europe and North America do, tuners sold in Japan do not.
The problem is that the Japanese FM broadcast band is 76 – 90 MHz. There is just a 2 MHz overlap with our FM band here in Australia. Because tuners (radios) rely on tuned circuits utilising inductors, capacitors, etc, there isn’t a simple switch that can be flicked to fix this.
Almost all good tuners have two different RF front ends to deal with this, and they are installed at the factory, based on where the tuner is going. You need to choose a tuner designed for 88 – 108 MHz. No Japanese market tuner is.
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