Japan easing border controls from March

Recently, the Japanese government announced that it will start easing up on border controls from March. This will include increasing the current cap of international arrivals from 3500 people to 5000 people a day, and cutting the quarantine period upon arrival from 1 week to 3 days. These rules will apply not just to Japanese citizens returning home, but also foreigners who are entering Japan for purposes besides tourism. Furthermore, those that have received three doses of the vaccine for the CCP virus will be exempt from any sort of quarantine.

This will be good for many companies that rely on employing foreigners - especially ALT dispatch companies, who are looking for new ALTs for the new school year starting from April. This will also be good for students who had planned to study in Japan before the strict borders came up in November last year in reaction to the omicron (aka Xi) variant of the CCP virus.