Japan publishes list of blue/yellow/red list of countries for new quarantine/testing requirements on entry effective June 1

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1. Can’t read Japanese please TLDR

2. Suddenly all the times I’ve skipped my Japanese practice have come back to haunt me

3. Edit: English list is up here: https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/fna/page4e_001053.html#title28

   ~~From June/1 people will be split into Red/Yellow/Blue groups based on the country they came from. See the breakdown of requirements for each group here:~~ [~~https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/cp/page22e_000925.html~~](https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/cp/page22e_000925.html)

   ~~Unfortunately, no official English page for the country list (~~[~~https://www.anzen.mofa.go.jp/covid19/pdf2/0526_list.pdf~~](https://www.anzen.mofa.go.jp/covid19/pdf2/0526_list.pdf)~~) yet, but from a little bit of Google translate it is:~~

   ~~Red:Pakistan, Fiji, Albania, Sierra Leone~~

   ~~Yellow:Asia/Oceania: India, North Korea, Kiribati, Cook Islands, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands, Tuval, Tonga, Nauru, Niue, Nepal, Vanuatu,Bhutan, Brunei, Vietnam, Marshall Islands, Macao, Micronesia, MaldivesCentral/South America: Antigua Barbuda, Uruguay,Guyana, Cuba, Grenada,Suriname, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Dominica, Trinidad Tobago, Nicaragua, Haiti, Bahama, Barbados, Venezuela, Belize, Peru, HondurasEurope: Andorra, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, North Macedonia, Cyprus, Kosovo, San Marino, Georgia, Tajikistan,Turkmenistan, Vatican City,Belarus, Portugal, Malta,MoldovaLichtenstein,Middle East/Africa: Angola,Yemen, Egypt, Eswatini,Eritria, Oman, Carbo Verde, Gabon,Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kuwait,Comoros, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Saudi Arabia, Santome Principe, Syria, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Seychelles, Equator Guinea, Senegal, Somalia, Chad, Central African Republic, Tunisia, Togo, Turkey, Namibia, Niger, West Sahara, Palestine, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Botswana, Mali,Mauritius, Mauritania, Libya, Liberia, Lesotho, Lebanon~~

   ~~Blue: Anything not mentioned above (Reddit was going crazy whenever I tried to copy and paste a big list in)~~

4. English version should be coming up soon, but in the meantime I don’t see anything too out of the ordinary.
   Perhaps the classification of Russia as green but Ukraine as yellow is writes but that’s probably based purely on COVID numbers

5. The yellow and blue lists are basically the same for triple-vaxxed folks.

6. So, basically, if we buy a ticket to Japan after June 10th, you’ll for sure be able to get in? I’m worried about the “daily cap international travelers” thing

7. Blue category only requires negative test 72 hours before travel. No post-arrival tests or quarantines.

   US and Canada are both blue.

8. What’s with the no/yes being in the same section.

   I.e. blue countries.
   So they need a vaccination certificate or not

9. Just open the borders properly already. I’m vaxxed 3 times soon to be four times and have a wallet full of money I want to spend in your country🤦‍♂️

10. Gotta list N.Korea on yellow tier and not red /s

11. One of the oddest “combos” on that ist is that the Vatican and San Marino are yellow, but Italy is blue….

12. Welp. Happy I’m going to Kyoto on Sunday. And Osaka. Time to see one last look at non tourist covered Japan.

13. Imagine coming back on the 29th from a blue country and having a full quarantine + a 5h wait at the airport. How funny that would be hahaha…

14. Glad to see mRNA-free people like me are allowed in Japan without any form of discrimination 🙂

15. I’m arriving on May 31st from blue country… I wonder whether I will have to quarantine just one day or full 3/7 days (as I don’t have 3 shots)

16. Mexico is Central America? hmmmmmm

17. Can someone clarify… if you’re from a Blue country, you don’t need a vaccine certificate or quarantine if you have a negative test 72 hours prior? Reason I ask is my wife is vaccinated but my 4 year old daughter is not. If they are to visit me in Japan I am curious what restriction my daughter will face if any

18. this is such a dogshit way of doing things.

19. does anyone know which packaged tours are eligible for tourists to get entry with? Is there a list that they used for the trial group?

20. Lol. Italy yellow, but Vatican City + San Marino blue. LOL

21. Quick question. I have a visa so I should be ok to fly in. But I’m an American flying from USA to Singapore for a week then flying to Japan after. Would I need 72 hour pcr test from Singapore or is it not required? I couldn’t find the information related to flying from Singapore. Thanks in advance

22. I wonder how this will affect prices now people can be confident on visiting. Because the prices for next march seem very high atm.