I sustained a serious injury abroad and lost my passport as part of the fun. Picked up an emergency/temp 1 year passport and it appears that I will be able to use that successfully to enter Singapore and Vietnam here shortly (Japan was no problem). Given the timing of everything on my docket (only going to be in the states for 2-3 weeks at a time for the foreseeable future) I'm assuming the best thing to do is to use my emergency passport to get in and out of the states over the next few months and then when I'm back in Japan go ahead and do my renewal via the consulate here (since I'll have 6-8 weeks to wait)...