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Eligibility to enter Japan from the US under covid-19 pandemic

 Just because we have parents and grand parents in Japan, we're looking into whether it's possible to go to Japan in case of emergency. Also hoping the pandemic to start settling (really it's just a hope at this moment though). It has been a surprisingly non trivial journey for us to find the credible, official source of info. A few major reasons are that even on the .go.jp (Japanese national government's domain) there are many pages that provide very simular info. Also many pages are outdated (to worsen, sometimes only a part of a page is outdated but the other part of the same pages is up to date). But I think we finally found the good resource. NOTE that things must be still very fluid, so what you see below is what we found as of April 30th, 2021. I've prioritized sources written in Japanese as I can imagine Japanese administration writes in Japanese first so that it's more possible for English materials to be outdated. Also I do not cite every single words