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Breaking: Prime Minister Kishida Approves Visa Free To Japan {See Commencement Date}

<h4>Breaking&colon; Prime Minister Kishida Approves Visa Free To Japan &lbrace;See Commencement Date&rcub;<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> has gathered that&comma; Japan&comma; one of the most technologically developed countries in the world&comma; will resume visa-free entry for individual travelers on October 11&comma; 2022&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Asia country Prime Minister&comma; Fumio Kishida&comma; announced Thursday in New York&comma; bringing its border rules close to pre-pandemic norms for the first time in about two and a half years&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We will remove the cap on the number of people entering the country&comma; and will resume accepting individual travel and visa-free travel&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kishida said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At present Japan only allows package tours&comma; and requires visas for all visitors&comma; in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Daily arrivals have been capped at 50&comma;000&period; But this has made the country more and more of an outlier&comma; as most other economies have fully reopened to tourists&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Starting on October 11&comma; short-term visitors will no longer be required to apply for tourist visas&period; Before the pandemic&comma; Japan allowed visa-free short-term travel from people from 68 countries and regions&comma; such as Singapore&comma; Malaysia&comma; Thailand&comma; Hong Kong and the U&period;S&period; And with no need to book tours through travel agencies&comma; it will be easier to visit&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Japanese government hopes to boost the economy through inbound tourism&comma; taking advantage of the weak yen&period; The currency is hovering around 24-year lows&comma; touching 145 per dollar at one point&comma; which makes Japan a more attractive destination for international travelers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Before COVID-19&comma; Japan accepted a record 31&period;8 million visitors in 2019&comma; making it one of the most popular destinations in Asia&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thanks to its cultural resources and airport infrastructure&comma; Japan ranked No&period; 1 on the World Economic Forum&&num;8217&semi;s latest Travel &amp&semi; Tourism Development Index&comma; released in May&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Japan is an island country in East Asia&period; It is situated in the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">northwest Pacific Ocean<&sol;a>&comma; and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan&comma; while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea&comma; Philippine Sea&comma; and Taiwan in the south&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire&comma; and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering 377&comma;975 square kilometers &lpar;145&comma;937 sq mi&rpar;&semi; the five main islands are Hokkaido&comma; Honshu &lpar;the &&num;8220&semi;mainland&&num;8221&semi;&rpar;&comma; Shikoku&comma; Kyushu&comma; and Okinawa&period; Tokyo is the nation&&num;8217&semi;s capital and largest city&comma; followed by Yokohama&comma; Osaka&comma; Nagoya&comma; Sapporo&comma; Fukuoka&comma; Kobe&comma; and Kyoto&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world&comma; as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;About three-fourths of the country&&num;8217&semi;s terrain is mountainous&comma; concentrating its population of 125&period;5 million on narrow coastal plains&period; Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions&period; The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world&comma; with more than 37&period;4 million residents&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Japan has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic period &lpar;30&comma;000 BC&rpar;&comma; though the first written mention of the archipelago appears in a Chinese chronicle &lpar;the Book of Han&rpar; finished in the 2nd century AD&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Between the 4th and 9th centuries&comma; the kingdoms of Japan became unified under an emperor and the imperial court based in Heian-ky&omacr;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Beginning in the 12th century&comma; political power was held by a series of military dictators &lpar;sh&omacr;gun&rpar; and feudal lords &lpar;daimy&omacr;&rpar; and enforced by a class of warrior nobility &lpar;samurai&rpar;&period; After a century-long period of civil war&comma; the country was reunified in 1603 under the Tokugawa shogunate&comma; which enacted an isolationist foreign policy&period; In 1854&comma; a United States fleet forced Japan to open trade to the West&comma; which led to the end of the shogunate and the restoration of imperial power in 1868&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the Meiji period&comma; the Empire of Japan adopted a Western-modeled constitution and pursued a program of industrialization and modernization&period; Amidst a rise in militarism and overseas colonization&comma; Japan invaded China in 1937 and entered World War II as an Axis power in 1941&period; After suffering defeat in the Pacific War and two atomic bombings&comma; Japan surrendered in 1945 and came under a seven-year Allied occupation&comma; during which it adopted a new constitution and began a military alliance with the United States&period; Under the 1947 constitution&comma; Japan has maintained a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislature&comma; the National Diet&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Japan is a highly developed country&comma; and a great power in global politics&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Its economy is the world&&num;8217&semi;s third-largest by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest by PPP&period; Although Japan has renounced its right to declare war&comma; the country maintains Self-Defense Forces that rank as one of the world&&num;8217&semi;s strongest militaries&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After World War II&comma; Japan experienced record growth in an economic miracle&comma; becoming the second-largest economy in the world by 1972 but has stagnated since 1995 in what is referred to as the Lost Decades&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Japan has the world&&num;8217&semi;s highest life expectancy&comma; though it is experiencing a decline in population&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A global leader in the automotive&comma; robotics and electronics industries&comma; the country has made significant contributions to science and technology&period; The culture of Japan is well known around the world&comma; including its art&comma; cuisine&comma; music&comma; and popular culture&comma; which encompasses prominent comic&comma; animation and video game industries&period; It is a member of numerous international organizations&comma; including the United Nations &lpar;since 1956&rpar;&comma; OECD&comma; G20 and Group of Seven&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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