"Helen Ramsay" <r@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:btdn64$602q6$1@ID-207901.news.uni-berlin.de...
> "Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote
> > Mind you, I did get skilled at cramming "Specialist in
> > Humanities/International Services", or some variant thereof, into that
> > tiny little box on the Japanese visa renewal forms.
>
> Since I've never seen a Japanese visa renewal form I'll have to take your
> word for that.

The problem is that often some answer that will take 3 or 4 Japanese
characters to write will take up a few inches of English. Japanese
bureaucrats, in all their wisdom, usually create bilingual forms but keep
the answer boxes the same size.

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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom