• Customers eat at a yatai, mobile food stall, along the Naka River in the Nakasu area of Fukuoka on Saturday. Japan is one of the last remaining rich economies with strict border controls, but that is set to change on June 10, when package tours from overseas will bring back tourists and their spending money. | BLOOMBERG
    Customers eat at a yatai, mobile food stall, along the Naka River in the Nakasu area of Fukuoka on Saturday. Japan is one of the last remaining rich economies with strict border controls, but that is set to change on June 10, when package tours from overseas will bring back tourists and their spending money. | BLOOMBERG

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Japan plans to allow more regional airports to accept entrants from abroad, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday, as the country gradually relaxes stringent border controls implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The government will also unveil guidelines on COVID-era inbound tourism for the travel industry on June 7, Kishida said, three days before it resumes accepting tourists from overseas, initially targeting those on package tours with guides and fixed itineraries.

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