extending tourist/business visa
m. lamphier
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.
thanks
Marc
Foxy Emma Jane
Do you actually have a visa now? You can get 90 day temporary visitor
visas in Japan, but visitors from countries with Reciprocal Visa
Exemption (like the US) don't need a visa to stay for up to 90 days.
In either case (temporary or no visa), I don't think you are allowed to
work while you are in Japan. You can have business meetings and do
things like market research, but you are not meant to engage in "paid
activities":
http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/02.html#a
You could apply for an Intracompany Transferee visa, but they may not be
impressed by the fact that you have already worked in Japan for several
months.
Declan Murphy
Can't be done. You have to leave the country and re-enter unless you are
a citizen of Austria (the other one), Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein,
Switzerland, United Kingdom or Mexico. Do you have a second passport
from one of these? If not, enjoy Korea.
--
"All FDR undid was the value of the dollar"
Kevin Gowen (really)
John W.
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.
John W.
Ed
"John W." <worth...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Is that what that other basket is for? I always thought it was like a
washer/dryer combo that didn't work for shit.
John W.
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.
Ed
There's no real pollution problem where I live. The problem is that I live
inbetween an apricot orchard, a grape vineyard and a peach orchard. Those
damned farmers come out about once a week in those pesticide spray cars that
look like giant jet propelled go-karts and spray their crops using the
stratosphere setting. They sit in those things wearing chemical suits (or
maybe just rain suits and masks) and the spray shoots up thity feet in the
air where the wind blows it right at my house.
My wife still insists that a clothes dryer isn't in the works because they
use too much electricity. Never mind the fact that I can't dry clothes
during the rainy season, or that the wind constantly blows my clothesline
down, or that the pesticides constantly sprayed in the area make hanging the
clothes outside a lesson in futility. We have to save electricity!
Hibijibi
> My wife still insists that a clothes dryer isn't in the works because they
> use too much electricity. Never mind the fact that I can't dry clothes
> during the rainy season, or that the wind constantly blows my clothesline
> down, or that the pesticides constantly sprayed in the area make hanging
the
> clothes outside a lesson in futility. We have to save electricity!
This sounds familiar, but with the baby my wife finally caved in. My
initial euphoria has subsided though, as it has become clear this so-called
"dryer" is really just a tumbler with warm air. It just runs for hours and
hours. The first clue was when the guy installed it and I kept wondering
when he was going to put in the hot air duct to the outside. Turns out no
hot air duct is necessary since there's no hot air.
best
hibijibi
John Yamamoto-Wilson
> This sounds familiar, but with the baby my wife finally caved in. My
> initial euphoria has subsided though, as it has become clear this
so-called
> "dryer" is really just a tumbler with warm air. It just runs for hours
and
> hours. The first clue was when the guy installed it and I kept wondering
> when he was going to put in the hot air duct to the outside. Turns out no
> hot air duct is necessary since there's no hot air.
We have something called a Rinnai Clothes Dryer (the precise model is RDT
50S). It sits in a little outhouse, it has a fairly wide hot air duct and it
dries the clothes in just a few minutes.
If I had shares in the company I'd wax even more ecstatic; perhaps I'd even
spam you all constantly, singing its praises. As it is, I'll just say my
wife says "Thank goodness for that dryer" at least three times a week, and
more than twice as often during the rainy season.
Ed
"Hibijibi" <km...@columbia.edu> wrote in message
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>Turns out no hot air duct is necessary since there's no hot air.
In engineering terms, this is referred to as an elegant design.
In Life in Japan terms, this is referred to as par for the course (like when
I started looking for my central heating system's thermostat. hah!)
In Sepponian terms, this is referred to as an unbelievable rip off.
Brett Robson
>
>Never mind the fact that I can't dry clothes
>during the rainy season, or that the wind constantly blows my clothesline
>down, or that the pesticides constantly sprayed in the area make hanging the
>clothes outside a lesson in futility. We have to save electricity!
>
Put your clothes in front of the airconditioner, even on a cool setting the air
is dry so your clothes will dry and you are cooled, saving electricity.
---
"he [John Ashcroft] deliberately left Jesus out of office prayers to avoid
offending non-Christians." - Ben Shapiro 27/2/2003
Michael Cash
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
You might also look and notice that is uses about the same wattage as
your hair dryer.
--
Michael Cash
"I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."
Elmer J. Fudd
Millionaire
Ed
"Brett Robson" <jet...@deja.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:24:44 +0900, "Ed" ...
> >
> >Never mind the fact that I can't dry clothes
> >during the rainy season, or that the wind constantly blows my clothesline
> >down, or that the pesticides constantly sprayed in the area make hanging
the
> >clothes outside a lesson in futility. We have to save electricity!
> >
>
> Put your clothes in front of the airconditioner, even on a cool setting
the air
> is dry so your clothes will dry and you are cooled, saving electricity.
If it's so hot that I need to use an air conditioner, drying the clothes is
the least of my problems. About 30 minutes on the line is plenty on a hot
day.
My preferred method is to just not do the laundry. That way, my wife will do
it.
Scott Reynolds
> We have something called a Rinnai Clothes Dryer (the precise model is RDT
> 50S). It sits in a little outhouse, it has a fairly wide hot air duct and it
> dries the clothes in just a few minutes.
Doesn't it make the clothes smell bad to dry them in an outhouse?
--
_______________________________________________________________
Scott Reynolds s...@gol.com
John R. Yamamoto- Wilson
> Doesn't it make the clothes smell bad to dry them in an outhouse?
No. It's a little lean-to adjoining the house. The previous owners used it
as a kind of pantry (shelves full of pickles and stuff). We had the dryer
installed in there because it's kind of noisy. Fifteen minutes of that thing
rumbling away, though, and the clothes are dry - a real boon around this
time of year.
Scott Reynolds
I can imagine. I used to have a dryer like the one Ed complains about.
It took forever to dry the clothes while raising the temperature and
humidity inside the apartment. Must be nice to have a dryer that
actually works.
BTW, my comment was intended as a joke. The word "outhouse" refers to a
very specific type of outbuilding in American English.
Ed
"Scott Reynolds" <s...@gol.com> wrote in message
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> BTW, my comment was intended as a joke. The word "outhouse" refers to a
> very specific type of outbuilding in American English.
You forgot to add that they have basically been outlawed in the U.S. The
family outhouse (a two-holer) is no longer considered a viable means of
release thanks to sepponian health regulations.
It's still in use, but only by the spiders and the occasional visit by
ex-patriated family members who don't give a shit about their health.
John Yamamoto-Wilson
> BTW, my comment was intended as a joke. The word "outhouse" refers to a
> very specific type of outbuilding in American English.
Ah! No, I hadn't got it and was wondering if you thought maybe we kept pigs
there, or something. My dictionary says that in the US this has been common
usage (tho' no longer in common *use*, I assume) for some 200 years.
Scott Reynolds
> "Scott Reynolds" <s...@gol.com> wrote in message
> news:bcucdi$5bb$1...@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
>
>>BTW, my comment was intended as a joke. The word "outhouse" refers to a
>>very specific type of outbuilding in American English.
>
> You forgot to add that they have basically been outlawed in the U.S. The
> family outhouse (a two-holer) is no longer considered a viable means of
> release thanks to sepponian health regulations.
Just another one of our freedoms they've taken away while I've been
gone. Where will it end? Next thing you know the "sepponian" authorities
will outlaw septic tanks. (Wouldn't that be ironic?)
Scott Reynolds
I'm sure there were lots of other terms in use as well. I remember when
I visited Mount Vernon (George Washington's Virginia estate) the guide
showed us the slave quarters, the "George Washington slept here" main
house, and the "necessary," which was what George and Martha called the
outhouse.
Ed
> On 6/20/2003 6:11 PM, Ed wrote:
>
> > "Scott Reynolds" <s...@gol.com> wrote in message
> > news:bcucdi$5bb$1...@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> >
> >>BTW, my comment was intended as a joke. The word "outhouse" refers to a
> >>very specific type of outbuilding in American English.
> >
> > You forgot to add that they have basically been outlawed in the U.S. The
> > family outhouse (a two-holer) is no longer considered a viable means of
> > release thanks to sepponian health regulations.
>
> Just another one of our freedoms they've taken away while I've been
> gone. Where will it end? Next thing you know the "sepponian" authorities
> will outlaw septic tanks. (Wouldn't that be ironic?)
It'll happen. What is an outhouse but a septic tank with a door, a throne
and reading material?
John W.
But I've been in outhouses that smelled much better than the average
Japanese train station toilet.
John W.