What I am looking for is just a regular CORDED phone for home. The kind that you would see in the office connected to the digital telephone system, with a bunch of one-touch dial buttons, large screen, phone book for at least 50 numbers that shows the person name and the number itself and built-in answering machine, but it should work with the regular telephone line in the US.
The only phone I found so far is
It seems that no other phone like this exists on the market (there are similar, but none of them has built-in answering machine). And this brings me to the second part of the questions.
I believe something like that should be available in Japan. Does anyone know if their phone system is compatible with US ? If it does - can anyone recommend a company that does "unofficial" electronics import from Japan ? Kind of like DYNAMISM.COM (they don't deal with regular phones). Or maybe just point me to some Japanese website that ships to US. I don't speak Japanese at all, so it should have English version :-D