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I am convinced, yes. They told me they would not send the COE until I gave them date I was leaving Japan as a tourist. They then sent the COE to my company, believing I was either about to leave or had already left. My company then gave me the COE, and I exited the country around the date I said I would leave, COE in hand, spent one day only in Korea, got my visa, and returned.

It was an easy and unstressful process.

MOFA does the COE. MOJ, immigration, does not. Yes, you can apply at immigration, but that is not who releases the COE. So saying what immigration will and will not do in regards to a COE is not correct.

MOFA and MOJ are different entities.