Japan drops blanket halt of inbound flight bookings after criticism

Photo shows passengers arriving at Narita airport near Tokyo no Dec. 2, 2021. Japan retracted the same day its plan to completely halt bookings for inbound international flights in December due to the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus as the step was criticized as going too far.

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