Originally Posted by
lsquare
I was actually thinking about this topic. I have to say I'm not really impressed with how Japanese officials are placing the sticker on my passport. This means it'll take up more space than necessary and may mean I'll run out of pages before it's time to renew.
Cannot second this.. my sticker+stamps start at the VERY (top-)left; next year/one is like really tightly below the upper one (whole page free otherwise).
Also sticker+stamp is considerably small. Not like full page funky-blinky making the passport impossible to stay closed by itself and so on..
Or comparing that to other countries where they just slam the stamp into the middle of the empty page...
No, JP immigration is not a space waster in my experience..