{"id":41774,"date":"2022-02-17T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/17\/japan-to-ease-covid-border-controls-after-two-years"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:24:17","slug":"japan-to-ease-covid-border-controls-after-two-years-of-seclusion-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41774","title":{"rendered":"Japan to ease Covid border controls after two years of \u2018seclusion policy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports say PM will raise caps on arrivals and shorten quarantine times amid complaints that tough measures were worsening chronic labour shortage<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan is to ease its strict border controls from next month, media reports said on Thursday, after criticism from students, workers and family members who have been in effect \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/i-cried-all-day-the-anguish-of-people-locked-out-of-japan-by-covid\">locked out<\/a>\u201d of the country for up to two years.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions, which limit arrivals to Japanese citizens and returning foreign residents, have affected 150,000 students, triggering accusations from politicians and business leaders that the ban is damaging the country\u2019s economy and international image.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/17\/japan-to-ease-covid-border-controls-after-two-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports say PM will raise caps on arrivals and shorten quarantine times amid complaints that tough measures were worsening chronic labour shortageSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan is to ease its strict border controls from next month, media reports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774\/revisions\/41775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}