Alright, we are onto mulling, this means by mid-June we may be at consideration, and discussions by July! /s
Haven’t we seen this type of headline before, with nothing changing? I’ll believe it when I see it.
This part is pretty telling:
>While details such as whether the government will place a cap on the number of tourists allowed in are not yet known, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to announce the plan Thursday at the earliest, the sources said.
We’ll have *something* by Thursday.
Do they mean entry as a normal tourist, without the group tour thing?
Just rip off the bandaid like Korea did. You dont even need testing on arrival. Just make people do testing 24-48 hours before boarding, thats it!
June next year I assume
It’s happening
Wait, so they’re really going from a 50 people tour group to resumption of tourism in a span of like 2 weeks? That seems super optimistic. It still begs the question what kind of data are they looking for in that 50 people tour group?
Wake me up when they actually set plans for reopening. Always with these articles it’s a “maybe” or “almost”.
This headline just makes me think of Lucy with the football.
Look, folks, if you want to come, I get it, but wait until it’s actually announced. Not “almost set”, wait until it’s a sure thing.
> Japan on Tuesday began accepting small-scale tours for vaccinated tourists from the United States, Australia, Thailand and Singapore as a trial toward the resumption of foreign tourism.
> Viewing tourism as a key driver of economic growth, Japan aims to attract up to 60 million foreign tourists in 2030.
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Alright, we are onto mulling, this means by mid-June we may be at consideration, and discussions by July! /s
Haven’t we seen this type of headline before, with nothing changing? I’ll believe it when I see it.
This part is pretty telling:
>While details such as whether the government will place a cap on the number of tourists allowed in are not yet known, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to announce the plan Thursday at the earliest, the sources said.
We’ll have *something* by Thursday.
Do they mean entry as a normal tourist, without the group tour thing?
Just rip off the bandaid like Korea did. You dont even need testing on arrival. Just make people do testing 24-48 hours before boarding, thats it!
June next year I assume
It’s happening
Wait, so they’re really going from a 50 people tour group to resumption of tourism in a span of like 2 weeks? That seems super optimistic. It still begs the question what kind of data are they looking for in that 50 people tour group?
Wake me up when they actually set plans for reopening. Always with these articles it’s a “maybe” or “almost”.
This headline just makes me think of Lucy with the football.
Look, folks, if you want to come, I get it, but wait until it’s actually announced. Not “almost set”, wait until it’s a sure thing.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/05/07c03f97fe7d-breaking-news-japan-mulls-resuming-foreign-tourist-entry-in-june.html) reduced by 66%. (I’m a bot)
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> As many advanced countries have eased COVID-19 restrictions after the peak of the Omicron variant, Japan has been the only member among the Group of Seven industrialized countries that continues to refuse entry to foreign tourists.
> Japan on Tuesday began accepting small-scale tours for vaccinated tourists from the United States, Australia, Thailand and Singapore as a trial toward the resumption of foreign tourism.
> Viewing tourism as a key driver of economic growth, Japan aims to attract up to 60 million foreign tourists in 2030.
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Every headline I see about this makes me dislike Japan a little more
Are they still talking about the tour group or normal tourists I’m confused