Japan raises daily arrival cap to 50,000 as tourism sector sluggish

Japan increased its daily entry cap on arrivals from 20,000 to 50,000 on Wednesday, as the country's tourism sector has been languishing in the face of strict COVID-19 border controls imposed for more than two years.Starting on the same day, incoming travelers who have been vaccinated at least three times do not need to take coronavirus tests within 72 hours of departure and show proof they are not infected."I had to take seven or eight PCR tests coming back from China last spring," said Hiroyuki Kushida, an auto parts company employee who had just returned to Japan from a business trip to …READ FULL ARTICLE