COVID-19 Japan's Covid-19 border policy

IronDove said:

i think this is being used more as an experiment to see if reintroducing tourism at this stage is something that will be seen as "safe".
a small control group selected from the safest possible candidates (booster shoted and from a highly developed nation if i remember right) can be seen as progress for the tourism industry while doubling up as the perfect excuse to outright shut down tourism again should this control group and the people they come into contact with be found to be infected with any form of coronavirus.
if there are no covid-19 cases related to this control group, i assume larger and more frequent groups will get the green light until a time when cases related to the groups emerge. from there, its anyone's guess i suppose

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Petaris said:

Looks like I will be applying for the visa after all. I wonder If I will be restricted to some area local to my MIL's house? I will have to ask the consulate when I apply.

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The government will simultaneously start a new genomic surveillance program, under which entrants with symptoms such as fever are tested voluntarily, with the aim of detecting new infectious diseases. […]
Travelers arriving at five major airports -- Narita, Haneda, Chubu, Kansai and Fukuoka -- will be subject to the new framework, which is set to start when the legal status of COVID-19 is downgraded to the same category as seasonal influenza early next month. It takes about a few weeks for genomic test takers to get the results, according to government officials.

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