I have a lot of respect for both Woody and Bernie, and I have no reason to pick a fight, but something is not right here.
I have a JDM shifter in my car. I simply reversed it so that it is angled to the left instead of the right. It does NOT hit the radio bezel when you shift to 1, 3, 5 as Bernie and Woody are suggesting. (They are obviously very knowledgeable so I don't know why they are augered in here). Here is the vid - you be the judge:
If there are any doubts that my car was once an automatic, you can clearly still see the "Shift lock" sticker on the bezel in the video.
The JDM transmission was purchased from Shoaib at JDM Source in Calgary back in 2005. It was fresh off the boat from Japan.