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FCDO travel advice for Japan. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 27 November 2024

• Warnings and insurance

  Before you travel No travel can be guaranteed safe. Read all the advice in…

• Entry requirements

  This information is for people travelling on a full ‘British citizen’…

• Safety and security

  This guide also has safety advice for regions of Japan. Terrorism There is…

• Regional risks

  This section has safety advice for regions of Japan. It only covers…

• Health

  Before you travel check that: your destination can provide the healthcare…

• Getting help

  The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) cannot provide…

How  you import from and export to Japan. 

• Updated: 20 December 2024

UK secures special protected status as geographical indications for a further 39 British food and drink products in Japan.

• Updated: 22 December 2024

• Updated: 13 June 2023

Protected food name with Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)

• Updated: 4 January 2021

Information for British citizens moving to or living in Japan, including guidance on residency, healthcare and driving.

• Updated: 7 May 2024

Use a separate statement of objection form for each Japanese GI product name you object to.

How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.

• Updated: 17 February 2023

Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients from Japan for healthcare practitioners.

• Updated: 20 September 2021

Use a separate statement of objection form for each Japanese GI product name you object to.