TOKYO/MANILA – Beginning today, Oct. 11, visitors from the Philippines can travel again to Japan as the said country reopens its borders to independent foreign tourists for the first time after two years of COVID-19 restrictions.

MANILA – Philippine Airlines (PAL) praised the Japanese government in its decision to fully reopen to foreign tourists beginning Oct. 11. “Japan's decision to ease travel border rules is good news,” said Philippine Airlines (PAL) spokesperson Cielo Villaluna in a Facebook post on Saturday. “By removing the cap on

TOKYO – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that Japan will allow foreign tourists to enter the country again without joining guided package tours and increase the daily arrival cap to 50,000 beginning Sept. 7.

TOKYO – The Japanese government on Wednesday lowered its travel warning for the Philippines over the COVID-19 pandemic, and is no longer asking its citizens to refrain from nonessential trips to the Southeast Asian nation.