I have traveled from Sapporo to Miyazaki and iv come to love and understand JR better in that time, however there are two big problems with the jr pass and I also have a suggestion.
The first problems is that you make it very clear the pass is not replaceable or refundable if lost, however what is very must not clear is that a pass can not be reissue until it expires. This lead to the second problem, which is the pass is the same as the tickets that you need for each stop and you must also insert both at the station. This causes more opertunity for the pass to be lost. With something as simple as the clear card hold you get when you buy bust tickets it could help to keep your tickets separated or a phone app the squka cards do. My suggestion would be in my travles I have found that when they print the train ticket receipt in English it had the stop and all the info for the comple trip to my next destination, however the platform was not on there so had to ask all the time. I know the platform changes daily but if there was a way on that on the day or when you know or even attest the platform of the first train. I look forward to visiting your beautiful country again, as soon as I can save up the the extremely expensive plane tickets.
