As you may already be aware, new restrictions were placed early this year on travellers coming to Japan and also various states of emergency were placed within Japan to reduce the impact of the pandemic. The final state of emergency in Japan was lifted on the 21st of March but there has been no new announcement as to when the borders will reopen to students to be able to enter for the April term. 

We met with some of the language school associations to discuss what we can do to lobby the government on behalf of all language school students.

The response from the school representatives was that the government highly weighs the impact to those students who are most directly affected and so we created a form to help capture that information to be able to share with the government more easily.

We ask if that you are willing to share your story that you please fill the form we link here as soon as you can, so we can use the information to push for students to be able to enter Japan for the April term as soon as possible. 

We know that it is very important that everyone takes all the necessary precautions to make sure that the COVID-19 doesn’t spread further but students are ready and willing to take all measures to limit any spread including being tested before and after entering Japan, will not use public transportation on arrival, do any required quarantine and follow all recommended social distance guidelines.

Share your story below so we can create highlight what students are going through during these difficult times and why they are motivated to come to Japan to learn Japanese.   You can write in English, your native language, or in Japanese.  Please only submit your story to the form once.

You can get involved here: https://forms.gle/mS53z3p3NrkEu6b17

Please note by sharing your details you are agreeing that if selected that your information can be used online and in print by Go! Go! Nihon and Japanese School Groups to lobby the government, we may have to edit some submission for length or clarity.  

We know many of you have been pushing already but we would like to ask that as many people as possible share their stories, so please pass this form on to friends too, in order to be able to supply the school representatives with as much helpful material as we can.