Japan to double limit on foreign arrivals from next month
TOKYO — Japan will next month double its limit on foreign arrivals to 20,000 a day, the top government spokesperson said on Friday (May 20).
A passenger walks past a board showing international flight arrivals at Tokyo's Haneda international airport on March 2, 2022.
TOKYO — Japan will next month double its limit on foreign arrivals to 20,000 a day, the top government spokesperson said on Friday (May 20).
Chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a regular news conference that travellers from most countries, about 80 per cent of the total foreign entrants to Japan, would not be required to provide proof of negative Covid-19 tests, nor would they have to quarantine on arrival.
This included people from all other members of the G7 group of developed economies.
Japan is accepting business travellers, foreign students and academics but not tourists, except a limited number in a trial of package tours.
Mr Matsuno said experience with the trials would be used in later decisions to further reopen. REUTERS
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