Japanese officials are scrambling to keep the Omicron variant from taking hold inside the country. They're focusing on border restrictions, but the rules are unclear, especially for Japan's ...

On October 11, Japan will lift most of the remaining border restrictions it enforced more than two years ago, at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic. On the face of it, that means a return to ...

Japan’s stringent COVID-19 border controls have been in place for far too long, which has had ramifications across a wide range of areas. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged over the weekend to ...