{"id":49249,"date":"2022-10-11T12:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/11\/japan-opens-borders-to-tourists-as-last-pandemic-travel-restrictions-eased"},"modified":"2022-10-11T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T03:22:26","slug":"japan-opens-borders-to-tourists-as-last-pandemic-travel-restrictions-eased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49249","title":{"rendered":"Japan opens borders to tourists as last pandemic travel restrictions eased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan removes strict Covid-19 travel curbs, fuelling hopes a tourist boom will reinvigorate the economy<\/p>\n<p>Japan has fully opened its doors to visitors after more than two years of pandemic isolation.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the country reinstated visa-free travel to dozens of countries, ending some of world\u2019s strictest Covid-19 border controls. Japan has also lifted the 50,000-person entry cap and ended the requirement for tourists to travel as part of tour groups, Kyodo news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/11\/japan-opens-borders-to-tourists-as-last-pandemic-travel-restrictions-eased\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan removes strict Covid-19 travel curbs, fuelling hopes a tourist boom will reinvigorate the economyJapan has fully opened its doors to visitors after more than two years of pandemic isolation.On Tuesday, the country reinstated visa-free travel to d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-49249","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\/49249","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49250,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49249\/revisions\/49250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}