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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
Patently false. This was changed in July of 2008. I'm in America visiting my grandmother, or I would pull up the paperwork I received from Ministry of Foreign Affairs explaining that status changing in Japan is no longer allowed. Trust me on this; my experience would have been easier had they not changed this policy.
And yes, they are extremely suspicious of multiple tourist visas, but there are several explanations you can use to get multiples in a row. You just have to be morally and ethically "okay" with either an overt lie or a lie of ommission.
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Okay, obviously it is not officially legal, it never was as far as I can tell. The question is whether they gave YOU problems specifically because you had multiple consecutive tourist visas. We are not debating whether it is against their policy to change within the country we are trying to figure out when it is they actually decide to enforce this policy. It sounds like they bring out the paperwork when you get their attention by applying for consecutive visas and not if you get your COE before you have to exit the country after the first 90 days. You speak of others who had problems, are you sure they didn't also have consecutive tourist visas?
No one is calling you a liar, just trying to get to the bottom of these contradictions.