There are 303 people ahead of me waiting to have their gaijin cards changed. Mine says it's valid until 2018 but...
...showing CJ level of head-in-the-sand, in my opinion.
Edit: ooh, it gets better. When people reply that they got the earlier notification, Jake gets upset with them for not tweeting that fact at the time...
I wasn't going to pipe in with yet another "smoooooooooth conversion out in the boonies, what with a visitors parking spot within the Immigration Office compound and only one other person there" story, but since I am posting... Did it about a month ago.