A passport belonging to Chinese actress Dilraba Dilmurat, complete with a Japanese travel visa, was discovered unattended at ...

As of December 2024, there were 21.6 million valid Japanese passports in circulation, representing around 17.5 percent of the overall population, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Before the ...

Even as swathes of tourists pour into Japan in record numbers, the country’s citizens are showing less enthusiasm to venture abroad with only one in six Japanese now owning a passport ...

The latest index covers 199 passports and 227 destinations. It shows that Japanese passport holders are exempt from needing visas to enter 194 countries and regions. Japan was pushed out of the ...

He stamped my passport, allowing me to board my flight ... This time, he called over a colleague for a consultation in Japanese. My heart sank as I watched them discuss my damaged document.

The Japanese passport is one of the strongest in the world, but only around 17% of the population holds one, considerably lower than the figure in many Western countries, government data shows.

A mere 17.5 per cent of Japanese citizens currently have a passport, compared with 25 per cent just before the pandemic, with the weak yen and concerns over safety abroad cited by many as reasons ...

CHINA: Chinese actress Dilraba Dilmurat’s passport, which included a Japanese visa, was reportedly found unattended at a café ...

The same easy-to-make mistake left my passport damaged and wet twice, which cost me money and nearly left me stranded abroad ...