{"id":174609,"date":"2018-08-02T03:11:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T07:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=174609"},"modified":"2018-08-02T03:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T07:11:44","slug":"japan-eases-visa-requirements-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/02\/japan-eases-visa-requirements-filipinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan eases visa requirements to Filipinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_129201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129201\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/asia-21442_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129201\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/asia-21442_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/asia-21442_960_720.jpg 480w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/asia-21442_960_720-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The decision was based on Tokyo&#8217;s &#8220;Tourism Vision Realization Program 2018&#8221;, which seeks to further promote people-to-people exchanges between Japan and the Philippines. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Japanese government has eased the visa requirements to Filipinos planning to have a short-term stay in Japan effective Thursday, August 1.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was based on Tokyo&#8217;s &#8220;Tourism Vision Realization Program 2018&#8221;, which seeks to further promote people-to-people exchanges between Japan and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Japan Embassy in Manila, the scope of applicants eligible for multiple entry visas for short-term stay with business purposes and for cultural and intellectual figures will be expanded.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, the validity period of the visas will be extended from five years to 10 years maximum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The abovementioned relaxation of visa requirements is expected to contribute to improvement of convenience for tourists and increase in repeat visitors as well as further advancement of people-to-people exchanges between Japan and the Republic of the Philippines,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The relaxation coincides with the 62nd year celebration of Tokyo and Manila&#8217;s normalization of diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Japanese government has eased the visa requirements to Filipinos planning to have a short-term stay in Japan effective &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":129201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}