"Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message news:<bchc91$diq$1@cobalt01.janis.or.jp>...
> "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:73fde4f0.0306130451.522d5b8e@posting.google.com...
> > mlamphier@hotmail.com (m. lamphier) wrote in message
>  news:<53fc9e0a.0306122037.4e81ce87@posting.google.com>...
> > > I am currently in Japan on a 90-day tourist/business visa (granted to
> > > US citizens) while working at the Japan branch of my company. I left
> > > Japan for a one-week vacation in April and came back for another 90
> > > days. Now my work may keep me in Japan a little longer than the
> > > originally planned second 90-day period. I could do another trip to
> > > Korea, etc. but I am just wondering if anyone has experince with just
> > > going down to the immigration office and getting the standard 90-day
> > > tourist/business visa extended for another month or two, i.e. without
> > > leaving the country.
> > >
> > Though I trust Declan on this, I'll add my useless two cents and
> > suggest you contact the embassy/consulate and ask them. Seems like
> > there ought to be a way. But, then, when I first moved to Japan I
> > thought there ought to be a way for Japanese companies to make a
> > washing machine that didn't require relocating the laundry to another
> > basket for spinning.
> 
> Is that what that other basket is for? I always thought it was like a
> washer/dryer combo that didn't work for shit.

Actually, I could get my clothes pretty dry in that thing. I hated
hanging my stuff on the balcony; seemed odd that I'd spend the time to
get the clothes clean and then hang them up in the polluted, smoggy
air to dry.

John W.