Mysterious new Digital Nomad Visa

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1. This is a copy of your post for archive/search purposes.

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   **Mysterious new Digital Nomad Visa**

   Over on Twitter/X is saying:

   https://x.com/imaeda_soichiro/status/1752278085310046312?s=20
   >**Breaking News** Some information on the long-awaited Japanese version of the digital nomad visa has been released…a public comment session will be held in mid-February…

   >The new Japanese Digital Nomad visa is just a long tourist visa..3 months more, double, and you can work for six months, instead of zero months

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   Maybe Japan got embarrassed when last month: [**South Korea Introduces A Digital Nomad Visa That Will Permit Foreigners To Stay For Two Years**](https://www.msn.com/en-in/travel/news/south-korea-introduces-digital-nomad-visa-that-will-permit-foreigners-to-stay-there-for-2-years/ar-AA1mlEtY)

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2. I would love to hear the qualification criteria for this. Will it be super nuanced so that the country isn’t inundated with tourist-workers?

3. This means that people can work for existing foreign clients, and can’t work for Japanese companies, or solicit work from those companies on this visa, correct?