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Japan's Travel Curbs Choke Off Chance For Tourism Recovery On Weak Yen

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CNA
 
Japan further relaxed its infection border controls on Wednesday (Sep 7), but its insistence on visitor visas means the yen's plunge will not translate to a tourism boom any time soon.
The government raised the daily ceiling of inbound travellers to 50,000 from 20,000 and scrapped a require...

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FOCUS: Japan Eases COVID-19 Border Controls But Tourist Surge Doubtful

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's relaxed border measures from Wednesday, including raising a daily cap on arrivals from 20,000 to 50,000, will not translate into a surge of tourists to gun its economy unless they are given greater freedom to travel in the country, industry officials say.
They say that touris...

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Japan Revises Guidelines For Overseas Tourists

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NHK
 
The Japan Tourism Agency has revised its guidelines for overseas tourists as the county prepares to reopen to individual tourists next week.
Starting on Wednesday, the government will allow tourists from all countries to enter Japan without joining a guided tour.
Travelers will be able to p...

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Japan Further Eases Border Controls For Tourists, Allowing Non-Guided Package Tours

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CNA
 
From Sep 7, Japan will also raise its daily cap on the number of people allowed to enter the country to 50,000.
Tourists will be able to visit Japan from next week on package tours without a guide, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday (Aug 31), as the country moves to ease strict ...

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Japan Moving To Allow Individual Tourists In Again

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NHK
 
The Japanese government is moving to start accepting overseas tourists who do not want to take guided tours in a bid to address a decline in the numbers of foreign travelers visiting Japan.
The country reopened to foreign holidaymakers in June with the easing of anti-coronavirus border cont...

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Japan Eases Travel Alert For Indonesia, Philippines, Other Areas

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KYODO NEWS
 
The Japanese government on Wednesday eased its travel warning over the coronavirus pandemic for 54 countries and a region, including Indonesia and the Philippines, and is no longer requesting that residents in Japan refrain from nonessential trips to those nations.
The Foreign Minist...

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Japan To Drop Pre-Arrival Testing For Vaccinated Travelers Next Month

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday that Japan will stop mandating pre-arrival coronavirus tests for vaccinated travelers from Sept. 7 — a step that brings Japan’s border control policy closer to that of other major economies.
Japan will also raise the daily arrival caps fro...

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Japan Set To Allow More Tourists To Enter, Ease Covid-19 Test Rule

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THE STRAITS TIMES
 
Japan is set to more than double the number of people it will allow into the country and may scrap the need for a negative Covid-19 test to enter, as the last rich economy with stringent entry requirements still in place looks to join the rest of the world in easing pandemic c...

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Japan Saw Over 100,000 Foreign Visitors In June, 3rd Month In Row

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KYODO NEWS
 
 
 
The number of foreign visitors to Japan in June exceeded 100,000 for the third consecutive month following the easing of border control measures, preliminary government data showed Wednesday.
Arrivals in the month of 120,400 were more than 10 times those of June 2021, but still d...

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Japan To Open To Tourists After COVID, With Masks, Insurance And Chaperones Required

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REUTERS
 
Foreign tourists visiting Japan will be required to wear masks, take out private medical insurance and be chaperoned throughout their stay, the government said on Tuesday, as it plans a gradual opening from two years of COVID-19 restrictions.
Only visitors on package tours will be allow...

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