The Japan Tourism Agency announced on Tuesday, May 17 that it would start allowing small group tours in May as part of a “test tourism” trial before the country fully reopens to foreign visitors. The ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan rose to nearly 500,000 in October, the first month it fully reopened to overseas visitors after more than two years of Covid restrictions, more than doubling ...

The Japanese city of Hatsukaichi in the Hiroshima Prefecture, home to the centuries-old Itsukushima Shrine, one of Japan’s UNESCO World Heritage sites, has introduced a new tax on visitors to its ...

TOKYO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 9 story has been corrected to add negative COVID-19 test condition in paragraph 13) As Japan throws open its doors to visitors this week after more than two years ...

A comic book has sparked travel anxiety in East Asia with predictions that a “real catastrophe” will hit Japan this summer. The Future I Saw, a comic book by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki, has prompted ...

TOKYO, May 30 (Reuters) - Japan's easing of a two-year ban on foreign tourists seeks to balance the enormous economic importance of tourism with concerns that travellers would trigger a COVID outbreak ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The island of Shikoku was ranked sixth in the Top 10 Regions category in Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2022 lists. Japan’s fourth largest island, Shikoku lies southwest of ...

It sounds like the plot of a comic itself. A manga artist has a dream, draws it, and decades later, the world responds not with admiration, but with cancelled holidays, empty flights, and spiralling ...