The government plans to lift an entry ban on individual tourists around October, significantly relaxing border controls that were imposed to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Taking into account the decrease in the number of new cases of infection, the government is to scrap the current daily entry limit of 50,000 people, and will allow visitors from the United States and certain other countries to stay in Japan for a short period of time without a visa.
The government intends to bring border control measures closer to those that were in place before the spread of the disease as part of its efforts to increase the number of individual travelers, the primary source of visitors to Japan.
