China Overseas Chinese Network, July 17th, according to the Japanese "Chinese Herald" reported that recently, in view of the gradual calm of the epidemic situation in some countries and regions, Japan is recently actively relaxing restrictions on entry and exit. According to the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Association) report on July 11, the Japanese government intends to allow international students who return to the country before issuing the "List of Restricted Countries for Entry" to enter Japan after meeting the conditions for nucleic acid testing.

　　In order to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Japan has implemented immigration control on 129 countries and regions. In principle, foreigners (including foreign residents holding re-entry permits) who have stayed in countries and regions with restricted entry within 14 days prior to the date of application for landing permission will be denied entry to Japan.

　　However, based on humanitarian considerations, on June 12, the Ministry of Justice’s Department of Immigration and Residency Administration of Japan announced that it is permitted to hold a re-entry permit to allow foreigners who leave Japan to travel to restricted countries and regions to re-enter Japan under “special circumstances”. case.

　　As mentioned in specific examples, foreigners (including Japanese spouses who do not have more than one residence visa) have residence visas for permanent residents, Japanese spouses, permanent resident spouses, and permanent residents who hold a re-entry permit (including the "re-entry permit"). Children) If they meet certain conditions, they are deemed to have special reasons to allow reentry.

　　In July, with the slowing of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in some countries and regions, the Japanese government intends to further loosen the restrictions on entry.

　　NHK reports that government discussions include foreigners who are allowed to leave the country before issuing the "Entry Restricted Countries List", foreigners holding residence visas for study abroad, technical internships, etc. with a re-entry permit (including the "re-entry permit"). Re-enter Japan after meeting the conditions for nucleic acid detection.

　　At the same time, due to the impact of the epidemic, many foreign students staying in their home countries failed to go to Japan, resulting in a large number of Japanese schools losing their sources of income and falling into operating difficulties.

　　According to 6 groups of Japanese education institutions (National Association of Japanese Language Education of various schools, National Association of Japanese Language Education, National Association of Japanese Language Schools, National Association of Japanese Language Education, National Association of Japanese Language Education, Japanese Language Education Promotion Association, Japanese Language School The incomplete survey conducted by NETWORK) shows that there are 13,700 foreign students scheduled to enter classes at 208 Japanese schools in Japan this April. Among them, about 1,000 people chose to drop out, accounting for nearly 10% of the total; about 11,600 people were temporarily suspended to Japan, accounting for more than 80% of the total. It is believed that there are 86 Japanese schools with no freshmen enrolled at all, and some schools have been closed for classes. (You Xichuan)