Japan’s policy requiring declaration from Hong Kong arrivals will be reduced to simply a ‘gesture’, tour agents say

fd952ed0-3ed2-483d-a377-210744c7d815_8a420fea

Tour agents have questioned the effectiveness of requiring arrivals from Hong Kong and Macau to declare at three Japanese airports opened to them that they have no recent travel history to mainland China, suggesting the policy would only amount to a “gesture” with no accurate way to validate such information.

Operators in Hong Kong pointed out that residents from the city and Macau used a different travel document, the home return permit, to enter the mainland, leaving no record on their passports.