Japan To Fully Reopen To Tourists

The government of Japan is planning to fully reopen the country to international tourism, perhaps as early as October.

Japan currently allows an extremely limited number of tourists who have reservations with guided tourist groups into the country and has been among the slowest of all wealthy countries to open up, though China still has some of the strictest border controls.

Government officials in Japan hope the current weakness of the yen will help drive tourists who are looking for good deals.

The decision to reopen to international tourists comes as Japan recovers from its highest daily case count of the entire so-called pandemic, when cases were recently spiking in a way the country has never seen before.