Is be great for other countries, but I had bought these adapters especially for my laptop in Japan and knew after unpacking directly that there is nothing is (thankfully I've only noticed my journey ..). Normally you do not use there namely the connector, which you use for the US, but with the three contacts, but with two. Fair enough, you can from the three contacts with the locking lever machen- also two blocks from only this lever then wonderfully the entire German schuko plug surface, so that no SchuKo let alone reinpasst other plug more. Can I now, however, also do not care, because the adapter is so bad processes that called lever is canceled after the third operation. The adapter stops accordingly not really what it promises. Such an adapter for me and Japan - not again !! If someone wants to go to Japan and therefore want to take a laptop or the like, which has a shock - buys you in Japan an adapter, you will not be happy with this ...