Japan Government Advisor to Propose Letting in Tourists

Above, the Seven Samurai mural at Toho Studios in Setagaya. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

An unnamed Japanese government advisor is proposing that the country be reopened to foreign tourism. The advisor is expected to submit the proposal in a meeting today.

Whether or not the government will agree to this remains to be seen. It has been reported that tourism may reopen in autumn.

Bloomberg reported:

A Japanese government advisor plans to call for reopening the country to tourists, the Yomiuri newspaper said, amid a recent decline in new Covid infections and calls to ease strict border controls put in place in early 2020.

An unnamed, private-sector member of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, which advises Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, is expected to submit the proposal in a meeting Wednesday, the Yomiuri reported without saying how it obtained the information. It was not immediately clear whether the member had the support of the council’s other members.  

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