Japan restarts accepting foreign tourists as COVID worries wane

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1. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/06/ef606ea171da-japan-reopens-to-foreign-tourists-as-covid-worries-wane.html) reduced by 84%. (I’m a bot)
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   > Japan on Friday resumed visa procedures to accept foreign tourists, taking the first step toward increasing inbound tourism to help turn around its economy as worries about the COVID-19 pandemic wane.

   > The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in April was down 95.2 percent from the same month in the pre-pandemic year of 2019 at 139,500 people, according to government data released in May. Business leaders have called on the government to gradually reopen to inbound tourists to help revive the pandemic-hit economy, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has given assurances that Japan will ease border controls "In stages" to bring them on par with other Group of Seven nations.

   > Japan expands daily arrival cap to 20,000 as COVID fears recede.

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