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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Do I Need Visa To Travel To Japan?

Wazzup Pilipinas!

Filipinos! If you’re planning to go to Japan anytime soon then I’m sorry to announce that Filipinos still need to get a visa to visit the Land of The Rising Sun.

The Embassy of Japan in the Philippines notified the public that Japan has not lifted the visa exemption for the Philippines yet. But worry not! Japan has opened multiple-entry Visas to Filipinos.

In celebration of the 40th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation, the Government of Japan has decided to begin issuance from July 1, of multiple entry visas for short-term stay to nationals of the Republic of the Philippines (ordinary passport holders) who reside in their home country.

If you’re curious about what a multiple-entry visa means, multiple entry visas are use for short-term stay for nationals of the Republic of the Philippines (ordinary passport holders). It can be availed by those who have fulfilled certain conditions and who have an ordinary Machine-Readable passport (MRP) meeting International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards or an ordinary IC passport.

A Multiple entry visa can grant you up to 15 days of stay in Japan and its validity is up to three years. Accepting multiple entry visas is expected to increase the number of Filipino tourists who visit Japan.

However if you’re still not satisfied with getting a multiple entry visa, you can get yourself a visa but to acquire one, Filipinos who are interested in getting a visa to Japan should apply at the Japanese embassy through accredited agencies. The Japanese embassy in the Philippines does not accept direct visa applications.

Until now these are all the only options we have to travel to Japan legally and we can just hope that later in the future, Japan would let us visit their country without a visa.

*To view the countries with visa exemption from Japan visit here.

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