chapter 61 has in fact come out in japan.

i'm currently looking for a way to scan it into a computer, but if i don't i know someone else will. fear not! it will be in your hands soon ^^

(it looks like the last ishbal chapter too, lots of cool stuff happens... i wish i knew japanese though!! *flails* too much dialogue for my furigana skills to decifer....)

woo!

*edit*
i wrote up a non-japanese speaker's summary of the chapter, from what i could decifer from pictures and limited understanding of the language in a convo with gk, so here is it

spoilers, obviously.

http://gretchen8642.livejournal.com/15278.html#cutid1