{"id":48444,"date":"2022-09-13T13:57:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T04:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/13\/pressure-builds-on-japan-to-return-to-unrestricted-tourism-by-end-of-month"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T04:57:57","slug":"pressure-builds-on-japan-to-return-to-unrestricted-tourism-by-end-of-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48444","title":{"rendered":"Pressure builds on Japan to return to unrestricted tourism by end of month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses want prime minister Fumio Kishida to loosen restrictions to help the world\u2019s third-biggest economy recover from the pandemic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> could return to unfettered tourism by the end of next month as pressure builds on the government to end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> travel restrictions and cash in on a weak yen.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are reportedly considering removing the current daily cap of 50,000 arrivals, which includes returning residents, and a return to visa-free travel. A rule requiring individual travellers to make bookings through travel agencies could also be lifted, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/13\/pressure-builds-on-japan-to-return-to-unrestricted-tourism-by-end-of-month\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses want prime minister Fumio Kishida to loosen restrictions to help the world\u2019s third-biggest economy recover from the pandemicJapan could return to unfettered tourism by the end of next month as pressure builds on the government to end Covid-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,1066,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48444","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48445,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48444\/revisions\/48445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}