Japan this week will ease tough coronavirus border controls that have been criticized as xenophobic and damaging to the economy. The new rules, however, provide only a slight improvement ...

“As you can see, I’m still here.” Japan plans to keep the border measures in place through the end of February as it copes with a record surge of cases in Tokyo and other major citie ...

On October 11, Japan will lift most of the remaining border restrictions it enforced more than two years ago, at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic. On the face of it, that means a return to ...

They're focusing on border restrictions, but the rules are unclear, especially for Japan's foreign residents. The day before the Omicron variant was detected in Japan, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio ...