Government considers raising entry cap to 30,000 at the beginning of July

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1. I’m sitting here at the taxi stand at Haneda, where I’ve been working all day.

   The news said they doubled the limit from ten thousand to twenty thousand today, but you would never know it by being at the airport.

2. Honestly can’t wait to re-visit but I’ve never felt so unwelcome in a country before.

3. [From another article on this:](https://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2022060100997)

   > Within the government, there is also a proposal to scrap the daily entry cap altogether.

   I hope that proposal is being taken seriously. Why raise it to only 30k in July? In 2019, around 140k people entered every day. With the removal of testing and other COVID procedures for most arrivals from today onwards, there’s surely no need for a cap. I’m not aware of any other country that is capping the number of entries per day.

4. The trickle is getting really absurd. It’s like a math problem in algebra 1 where they say “if you raise by 10k per month when will it reach 2018 levels?!”

5. Dream on. Come now and be like a NKorean tourist. The test group from Thailand arrived negative and became positive while in Oita. Rona alive and still thriving in Japan = normal tourism isn’t happening for a while.

6. Another poster said that in 2018, there were 140,000 daily arrivals. The cap raises so far have been: 3/1 to 5,000, 3/14 to 7,000, 4/10 to 10,000, 6/1 to 20,000, 7/1 to 30,000. Assuming exponential growth, the daily cap will be lifted (i.e. allowing for 140,000+ daily arrivals) on 10/17 🙂

7. I’d love to move to Japan it seems like such a peaceful country

8. And yet those who are supposed to be coming for work reasons get delayed…

9. I don’t understand the point of raising caps if tourists are still unable to enter. My visa was approved in early March along with many others who were trying to enter for work, and we had absolutely no difficulty with getting a flight. Maybe there is a supply/demand issue that varies by region…?

10. Since masks have been proven to be effective, the Japanese have relied on individual ethics to wear them and protect society.

    Non-Japanese do not do so out of self-interest, even if they know it is effective, unless they are forced to do so by law.

    Therefore, the entry of non-Japanese into Japan can only have a negative impact.

    It is only natural that they are wary.