TOKYO, June 17 (Xinhua) — Japan issued 1.29 million visas to international nationals in 2022, up roughly 14 fold from the earlier 12 months after the nation dropped COVID-19 border management measures, the federal government has introduced.
While the entire continues to be removed from the pre-pandemic file excessive of 8.28 million in 2019, it marked the primary improve in three years following the nation’s leisure of COVID-19-related border controls this April, the Foreign Ministry stated on Friday.
The variety of visas issued to enter Japan dipped sharply in the course of the pandemic, falling to 1.12 million in 2020 when the nation began tightening its border management measures and dropped to 90,306 in 2021, the bottom determine since comparable information turned out there in 1999.
In 2022, 186,577 visas, or 14 p.c of the entire, had been issued in China, adopted by Vietnam with 177,329, the Philippines with 134,607, South Korea with 104,937, Indonesia with 92,663 and the United States with 88,557.