Yesterday, several Japanese media reported:
According to relevant Japanese government sources, the Japanese government is currently discussing the slowdown in entry restrictions for foreigners. The specific direction of discussion is to include Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand as the first echelon of resuming exchanges with Japan.
At present, this restriction prohibits entry into Japan by more than 100 countries around the world, and the tentative end period is until the end of June. In other words, the slowdown in entry is likely to be officially implemented from July.
This time, the epidemic situation in the four countries in Japan that have been slowed down in entry restrictions are all very stable, so there is a high voice for relevant personnel in the company to hope to communicate with each other again. Especially in Thailand, among the four countries, there are a lot of Japanese companies entering the local area, business people between the two countries are more eager to hope that the Japanese government can lift the ban as soon as possible. In response to this, Japan's Nishimura Economic Regeneration also stated in public that it will discuss specific implementation details on the easing policy and various countries in June.
The current preliminary idea is to take business people between countries as the target of slowing down. First, before going abroad, you need to undergo PCR testing in your own country to obtain a non-positive certificate for the new coronavirus. After that, you need to undergo another test when entering Japan. If the result is still negative, you will be allowed to enter.
Many Chinese friends may be a little confused here. If it is said that the epidemic control is the case, I believe no country has done more thoroughly than China. Why is there no China in the first echelon of Japan's slowdown in entry restrictions?
Japanese media also gave a special interpretation of this:
Although the epidemic in China is currently under control, there are no new patients. However, because China and the United States have fallen to an unprecedented freezing point in terms of both the source of the epidemic and the economy, if Japan is eager to resume exchanges between China and Japan at this time, it is likely to arouse opposition and criticism from the United States, so the Japanese government is conducting careful discussions on this.
Long ago, China had proposed to temporarily slow down entry restrictions between the two countries. In fact, as Japan's largest trading target country, Japan also hopes to resume normal exchanges between business people between the two countries as soon as possible, because this also has a huge driving force for the recovery of Japan's economy.
However, the problem that cannot be overcome before Japan is that Japan and the United States are allies. In such a delicate period, let alone the number of infections in the United States, even Japan, the ally, dare not resume exchanges with the United States easily. Therefore, in order to avoid stimulating the United States, Japan cannot directly announce the slowdown of China's entry restrictions. Therefore, this time it is also a roundabout strategy to propose the resumption of exchanges with some countries.
According to Japanese media, the Japanese government intends to resume exchanges with China during the second wave of slowing entry restrictions.
