>Why don't you stay at Kaz's in Hyogo ? You'd get along very well with Kaz

  if by "medusa" you mean his wife, i think he is divorced, so he is
already giving too much money to useless people.


>That was certainly a mistake from the bank to give you those cards.

capital one did also.   i need them now though.   ill just bring a
tourist guide with a list of hotels.  stay at an expensive one the
first night.  but really this whole immigration thing seems to easy;
surely japan would have a larger problem with illegal immigration?