whats_up_skip - 7:58 am on Jun 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

There are many sites for showing the difference between Google's www, www2 & www3, but there seems to be no www2 or www3 for the Japanese version of Google. Does any one know a way around this?

Also if you enter the same term in Japanese to www.google.com you receive a very different result to www.google.co.jp I gather this is due to the different encoding, but does any one know any more about this?