I am on my second year as an English teacher on a working instructor visa, and I read somewhere that switching from a working-visa to a SOFA/US job would reset my elapsed 2-years to zero when I decide to get a Japanese-visa job again.
However, as I couldn't find concrete answers, for the sake of getting a unified answer, I just tried consulting with ChatGPT, it suggested that switching to a SOFA job only pauses the countdown, and if I leave for a Japanese company in 2 years, it will resume at 2 years instead of resetting my elapsed residency to 0.
Which one is correct?
EDIT: Thank you so much for the clear answer. Another case where it's good to confirm with real people, and so I did.
On that note, if I'm going to find a job and work long term in Japan anyways, is it worth resetting those two years to zero for a job with double the pay for a couple of years? I'm thinking of saving enough to get a normal house then going back to any job I can find and continuing from there.
by 500ar