I'm [planning] on traveling to fukuoka this December to goto school there (if i can get everything done i wanted before then), I got an estimate today about how much it'll cost and whatnot to goto the school there, Anyhow, They said that due to my nationality of that of being american, I'm only valid to stay to up to 6 month unless i had a special visa that will allow me more then 6-month of stay, and i would like to stay for up to a year there. Does anyone have any insight on this?