Passersby wearing protective face masks walk past in front of an electric screen displaying notice about Covid-19 safety measures in Tokyo on Feb 1, 2022. (Reuters photo)
TOKYO: Singaporean Adeline Leng expected to start studying at a language school in Japan last April but is still not able to travel to the country due to its strict Covid-19 border controls.
Leng, 26, began the process of applying 16 months ago and since then it has been one long, increasingly fraught, wait.
“When the timeline passed, and we got to about August, after the (Tokyo) Olympics, and September, October, that is when the stress of not being able to enter Japan started to get to me,” Leng told Kyodo News in an online interview.
Japan has banned entries by nonresident foreigners since Nov 30 last year, days after…
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