Japan Tightens Border Controls for Travelers From COVID-Hit China as Accurate Virus Data Obscured

Chinese rush to search cross-border travels ahead of border reopening

Passengers arrive at the international terminal of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Oct. 11, 2022. Japan reopened to foreign travellers after two-and-a-half years of COVID restrictions. Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images

Japan is the latest country to tighten border controls for people who have visited mainland China, as the communist regime removes cross-border traveling restrictions despite a COVID-19 outbreak sweeping across the country.

Starting from midnight on Dec. 30, travelers from mainland China are required to present a negative COVID test result upon arrival, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Dec. 27.