Japan’s stringent COVID-19 border controls have been in place for far too long, which has had ramifications across a wide range of areas. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged over the weekend to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...