"Hey Frat and compadre Dom.....all you need to do is enter Japan on a E/D card instead of a shore pass on your last flight and you can stay here for up to 3 months, no need to tell the office girls to organise a shore pass with white paper(7 day limit) etc.....been done a million times."Somebody got in trouble recently for doing just that Coco-san, they came as a crew and filled out an ED and never registered on the GD as having entered Japan as a crew, there was something recently on the daily reports about it. The shore pass doesn't have to be restricted to 7 days, it could simply transfer you to your next trip with the white paper, thus my recommendation.