Japan eyes visa waiver for Pinoy tourists

[Monseratto]

Sugod mga japayukis...

Kyodo
Posted at 04/15/2014 12:25 PM | Updated as of 04/15/2014 1:20 PM

A businessman looks at cherry blossoms in full bloom in Tokyo. Photo by Toru Hanai, Reuters.
TOKYO - The Japanese government and the ruling coalition are making arrangements to waive visas for tourists from Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam as one of the initiatives in a revised action plan due out in June to make Japan a tourism-oriented country, government sources said Monday.

The initiative, which is aimed at drawing more tourists from Southeast Asia, including the Muslim population in the region, is envisioned as Japan seeks to achieve its goal of increasing the annual number of foreign visitors to 20 million in the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is also looking to tourism as a pillar of its strategy to spur the country's economic growth.

Last year, tourists from Thailand and Malaysia increased 61 percent from the previous year to a combined 630,000, after their visas were waived last July. It helped Japan's overall number of foreign tourists to top 10 million in a year for the first time.

Roughly 140,000 Indonesians, 110,000 Filipinos and 80,000 Vietnamese visited Japan last year. Among the countries whose nationals need visas to enter Japan, the three Southeast Asian countries ranked high in terms of the number of visitors to Japan, following China.

With a visa waiver, a large increase in the number of visitors to Japan can be expected from the three Southeast Asian nations, given growing demand in such countries for overseas trips reflecting their economic growth, observers say.

The rates at which overstay occurred among the short-term visitors from Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam between January and November last year were relatively low at between 0.09 percent and 0.34 percent.

By country and region, China, South Korea and Taiwan have sent the largest number of tourists to Japan.

To attain the goal of increasing the annual number of foreign visitors to 20 million, Japan needs to step up efforts to attract a greater number of people from Southeast Asian countries, according to the Japan Tourism Agency.

Japan has waived visas for short-term visitors from South Korea, Taiwan and 64 other countries and regions, if their purposes of visit are sightseeing or visiting their relatives.

South Korea, which rivals Japan as one of the main tourist destinations in Northeast Asia, has also eased its visa policy to attract a greater number of visitors.

==Kyodo

[holdencaulfield]

makapag hugas na nga ng etits! wahoo!

napanood ko noon sa Probe yung mga hosto natin dun, grabe sa hayok mga haponesa.
6am nung isarado yung bar, nagwala mga haponesa. yung iba umihi sa harap mismo ng bar.
sarap nun!

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[beginnerz]

Correct me if im wrong, pero i think japanese women prefer ung nde gwapings tlga or nde masyado good looking

[e2romo]

makapag hugas na nga ng etits! wahoo!

napanood ko noon sa Probe yung mga hosto natin dun, grabe sa hayok mga haponesa.
6am nung isarado yung bar, nagwala mga haponesa. yung iba umihi sa harap mismo ng bar.
sarap nun!

please don't follow me on twitter

Hinahanap ko sa YouTube, i-witness pala. Kita ko yung sinasabi mong umiihi na naka-pula. Ibang level talaga sa Japan, very open sila sa s*x, it's not a big deal to them. It's something to enjoy and nothing to be ashamed off, kahit casual s*x lang.

Sent from the Twilight Zone...

[CVT]

Put3,- s3x kaagad ang inisip ninyo... Pati public areas/phonebooths,- may mga contacts kaagad doon.... :naughty2:

Puwede bang Tokyo Disneyland muna?....



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[Retz]

Good news ito. That means no more egg shaped face sa visa.

[Ry_Tower]

Put3,- s3x kaagad ang inisip ninyo... Pati public areas/phonebooths,- may mga contacts kaagad doon.... :naughty2:

Puwede bang Tokyo Disneyland muna?....



23.0K:bokmal:

Oo nga naman. Next trip na yung ***capade. Family vacation muna ano Bro CVT.

[glenn manikis]

ok yan... ill pay a visit sa mga japanese massage girls...

[ZENMasterTYL]

Visa-free travel to Japan may start by June

MANILA – The Philippine Ambassador to Japan on Wednesday said that Filipinos may travel to the land of the rising sun without any need for a visa by June.

"We are just awaiting the official advice, but from reliable sources and from the newspaper accounts that have come out already, it seems that its likely going to happen sometime in June of this year," said Ambassador Manolo Lopez.

Lopez said the ease in visa requirement is part of Japan's plan to boost its economy.

"Since the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came into power in December 2012, the economy of japan have started to inch up and they would like to sustain this momentum by inviting more tourism coming in to Japan and they realized that in Southeast Asia that there is a lot of wealth in these countries," he said in an interview with ANC.

The ambassador added that Japan is targeting 20 million tourists in six years. It will also host the 2020 Olympic Games.

"Japan is targeting 20 million tourists by 2020 and they only breached the 10 million mark recently and so they will liberalize more and more the entry to Japan from other countries," he said.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-fi...may-start-june

[holdencaulfield]

Good news ito. That means no more egg shaped face sa visa.

ang guwapo naman ng egg para sa mukha mo.

diba japan sa nueva ecija lang yan?

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