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

• Updated: 22 December 2024

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

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

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

Information on the provisions related to agri-foods in the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.

• Updated: 5 November 2020

Find out what a composite food product is, and the rules you need to follow to export or move these products from Great Britain to the EU and Northern Ireland.

• Updated: 22 November 2023

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

• Updated: 20 September 2021

This guidance provides information on important security and political risks which UK businesses may face when operating in Japan.

• Updated: 13 June 2023

protected food name with Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)

• Updated: 8 March 2024