TOKYO – Japan will further ease border controls from Sept 7 by raising the ceiling for daily entrants to 50,000 and freeing up entry for travellers from all countries on package tours without the need for guides, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday (Aug 31). Speaking to reporters after returning to work from a Covid-19 infection, Kishida said Japan...
People disinfect their hands while a thermal camera reads their temperature, at the entrance of a department store, on the first day of Japan's closed borders to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov 30, 2021.
Speaking to reporters after returning to work from a Covid-19 infection, Kishida said Japan will proceed with further easing steps, taking into account virus infections in and outside of the country, travellers' demand and border controls adopted by other countries. "From the standpoint of making use of merits from the weak yen, we'll ease border controls further," Kishida told reporters.
Japan's yen has been trading at its lowest in more than 20 years against the US dollar and other major currencies, a potential boom for Japanese businesses exposed to international tourism.But visitor arrivals had been limited to 20,000 per day and had to be part of packaged tours accompanied by guides at all times to ensure compliance with infection controls.
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