Japan to double limit on foreign arrivals from next month

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Japan will next month double its limit on foreign arrivals to 20,000 a day, the top government spokesperson said on Friday.Chief Cabinet
Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a regular news conference that travellers from most countries, about 80% of the total foreign entrants to
Japan, would not be required to provide proof of negative COVID 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.Matsuno said experience with the trials would be used in later decisions to
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