{"id":49432,"date":"2022-10-18T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/18\/relief-tinged-with-unease-as-japan-reopens-after-two-really-tough-years-covid-tourists"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T04:00:41","slug":"relief-tinged-with-unease-as-japan-reopens-after-two-really-tough-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49432","title":{"rendered":"Relief tinged with unease as Japan reopens after two \u2018really tough\u2019 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Kyoto, local shop owners are ready to welcome back tourists but there is a way to go before a return to pre-Covid days<\/p>\n<p>After more than two years of near-total isolation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has reopened its borders to overseas visitors \u2013 but the road back to the pre-Covid tourism boom could be long and bumpy.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the country lifted some of the strictest pandemic border controls in the world when it removed a 50,000 daily cap on arrivals, reinstated waivers for short-term visas and dropped a rule requiring tourists to visit as part of group tours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/18\/relief-tinged-with-unease-as-japan-reopens-after-two-really-tough-years-covid-tourists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kyoto, local shop owners are ready to welcome back tourists but there is a way to go before a return to pre-Covid daysAfter more than two years of near-total isolation, Japan has reopened its borders to overseas visitors \u2013 but the road back to the p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2863,"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":[41,1066,88,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-travel","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\/49432","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\/2863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49433,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49432\/revisions\/49433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}