{"id":44902,"date":"2022-05-27T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/japan-to-reopen-to-foreign-tourists-after-two-year-pandemic-closure"},"modified":"2022-05-27T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T03:20:33","slug":"japan-to-reopen-to-foreign-tourists-after-two-year-pandemic-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44902","title":{"rendered":"Japan to reopen to foreign tourists after two-year pandemic closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government to allow in tourists from 98 countries and regions next month \u2013 but only as part of tour groups<\/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 has announced it will end a two-year pandemic closure and reopen to tourists from 98 countries and regions next month, but travellers will only be allowed in as part of tour groups.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after the government last week said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/japan-prepares-to-reopen-to-tourists-for-first-time-since-2020\">test allowing small group tours<\/a> with visitors from the US, Australia, Thailand and Singapore from this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/japan-to-reopen-to-foreign-tourists-after-two-year-pandemic-closure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government to allow in tourists from 98 countries and regions next month \u2013 but only as part of tour groupsSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan has announced it will end a two-year pandemic closure and reopen to tourists from 98 countries and regions n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,1066,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/44902","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44903,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44902\/revisions\/44903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}