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From: "Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov>
Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan
Subject: Re: extending tourist/business visa
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:21:18 +0900
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"John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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.