China has restarted its visa-free arrangement for short-term visitors from Japan and eight other nations, including Bulgaria and Romania, in a bid to boost tourism, trade and investment.
Japanese travellers can now enjoy visa exemption on stays of up to 30 days until the end of calendar year 2025, marking an extension to the previous waiver, which was on stays of up to 15 days and had been suspended since March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The extension is designed to make tourism and business travel from Japan “more convenient” than before, according to the…
