Didn't want to address it in the last post where it would get buried in the photos and stuff.

You know...I kind of agree with you on this. Again I know how lucky I was being able to fly the First Square on ANA. This was an award trip so it cost me about $100. However, I do at times pay out of my pocket for J on some of my flights and I would happily book a paid NH J trip again. The service was just as good between F/J...I loved the seat and layout in J. Actually the tray table in J I liked better, it was easier to push out to a comfortable position, the way that the F one swings out it felt like it was always wanting to sit right up against me instead of a few inches out.
So if I were on these flights again I would be totally content sitting in J staggered NH...unlike say maybe having flown LH F where you have the separate bed and then having to sit in LH J with an angle flat.

I booked these trips at the end of June. From what I can remember I believe I could have flown direct NRT-JFK in J on the MP award but I wanted to try F as well so I went for what was originally NRT-ORD-LGA. But, then a few months ago when I realized I wanted to come back home and surprise my Mom I couldn't find space to fly from NRT-SFO/LAX so I kept the NRT-ORD F and then did the bookings myself to fly ORD-LAX-MRY-SFO-JFK.