Will Japan Exempt Vietnamese Visitors From Visa?

The Japanese government and the ruling coalition are discussing to include visa exemption for tourists from Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines in their travel action plans to be released in June this year. (Source: kcpstudentlife.com) Kyodo News on April 15 citing sources within the government has just released this information.The proposal above is to help Tokyo attract tourists from Southeast Asian countries, including the fellow Muslim. Japan has set a target of increasing the number of annual visitors to 20 million before the 2020 Olympics, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also sees tourism as a key element in his economic recovery strategy, according to Kyodo News

. In the middle of last year, Japan relaxed its policy by issuing multiple visas to citizens of Southeast Asian countries. This type of visa - which is intended only for Japanese officials, professionals, merchants and relatives of Japanese citizens - allows visitors to stay in Japan for 15 days at a time and is valid for three years. A similar policy applies to Vietnamese tourists: Last year, the number of tourists from Thailand and Malaysia to Japan increased 61% to a total of 630,000, after Japan applied visa exemption to the two countries This is from July 2013.



Meanwhile, about 140,000 Indonesian tourists, 110,000 Filipino tourists and 80,000 Vietnamese tourists came to Japan last year. “Among the countries where citizens must apply for a visa to enter Japan, these three Southeast Asian countries have a high number of visitors to Japan. With the visa exemption, the number of visitors to Japan can increase sharply, as the demand for overseas tourism in these countries is increasing according to the economic development "- Kyodo News said. Quynh Nhu, the cultural committee of the Consulate General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City, said that he did not know the information as mentioned by Kyodo News. with 64 countries and territories to visit and visit relatives. South Korea, a strong tourism country in Northeast Asia, has also loosened its visa policy to attract tourists.

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