Most of the applications for studying in Japan are Asian students.The authorities have been delayed to open the country and attract huge protests in social media.Students who originally wanted to study in Japan had been transferred to other countries in April to further studies.
Fu Hui Tokyo Special officer
Japan has only opened the "half -door door" by the border control caused by the crown disease epidemic, but it has recently rumored that Japan intends to further relax the control.
The Japanese media quoted internal information yesterday that the authorities decided to allow 100,000 international students to enter the country within these two months.Once the customs quarantine can be confirmed, the next step is to formally consider more opening up.
In October last year, the Japanese epidemic slowed down and had decided to fully open it to international students. Later, due to the strong spread of Omircong, a poison strain in overseas.Epidemic prevention measures tighten sharply.It was not until this month that the number of entry was really decided.
Let 10,000 international students enter the country from mid -month
Japanese cabinet official house Chief Matsuna Koda said at a press conference yesterday that with the inbound measuresEastern, the upper limit of the number of entry Japan will be increased from the current 5,000 people to 7,000 on the 14th of this month.Some of the 15,000 overseas students who have obtained entry qualifications at that time will enter the country by the end of May.
According to the news reports, due to hundreds of thousands of international students who have accumulated unable to enter the country, the authorities plan to enter 10,000 international students to enter the country every week from the middle of this month.
In order to avoid crowded airports and considering input cases, the authorities are preparing to allow most international students to enter the country from Monday to Thursday when there is a small number of passengers.
major Japanese airlines have received notifications, trying to arrange 8,000 international students to enter the country on weekdays.On the weekend with many passengers, 2,000 international students can enter the country.
It is reported that the authorities do such arrangements to avoid excessive pressure on the quarantine department of the Japanese airport.If everything goes smoothly during the entry of international students, the authorities will further consider the large -scale open border.
Most of the applications for studying in Japan are Asian students.The authorities have been delayed to open the country and attract huge protests in social media.A female student in Indonesia showed a protest card in social media, saying, "Don't lock the country in Japan, I have waited for 337 days!"
Nikkei believes that the Kishida government is cautious about opening up.It is a good thing to worry about the crown disease epidemic once a counterattack.But this concern has clearly caused the outside world's impression of Japan.According to the Nikkei survey, students who were originally going to study in Japan had been transferred to other countries in April to study.Among these people who are preparing to study in Japan, there are many South Korea that go to the border control earlier than Japan.
The risk of atrophy of the Japanese economy
On the other hand, the data released by the Japanese Cabinet Mansion yesterday showed that the actual economic growth data in Japan last year was downward.Amended, last year's economic growth increased slightly from 1.7%to 1.6%.
The revised data shows that before the rapid spread of Omikon in Japan, the recovery was weak.The Kishida government launched a package of 56 trillion yen (about S $ 660 billion) in November last year to stimulate economic support to support economic recovery.
But the economist believes that with the rise in Ukraine's war and oil prices have increased the prospect of uncertainty, the economy has atrophic risks this quarter.
