Japan’s PM says foreign long-term visa holders can gradually enter from October, East Asia

TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan will gradually start allowing entry to foreigners with newly issued long-term visas from October, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday (Sept 25), further relaxing tough restrictions introduced earlier this year to guard against imported cases of coronavirus. The relaxation will be applied to foreigners with the appropriate visas, including student and dependent visas, sequentially from countries where the novel coronavirus has subsided, Mr Suga said, without saying which nationalities would be the first to be granted entry. They will be required to test for coronavirus before they are allowed into the country. Tourists are still…