6. A letter explaining the purpose of visit: why you wish to travel to Japan as a Working Holiday-maker.
Please ensure that this is typed and at least one A4 page in length. To be a successful applicant, indication of your strong motivation of visiting Japan is viewed favourably.
I keep reminding myself that they're not expecting the Nobel Prize for literature.
Even this kind of thing will get you in. And yet I still haven't written something I feel I can proudly submit at the consulate tomorrow. Ugh, bugger this for a joke.