{"id":3897,"date":"2025-11-27T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokiomarinenichido.jp\/cant-enter-japan-anymore-due-to-illness-during-your-last-trip-new-rules-starting-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:18:55","slug":"cant-enter-japan-anymore-due-to-illness-during-your-last-trip-new-rules-starting-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokiomarinenichido.jp\/en\/cant-enter-japan-anymore-due-to-illness-during-your-last-trip-new-rules-starting-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t enter Japan anymore due to illness during your last trip! New Rules Starting in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The following news was announced on November 27, 2025<\/p>\n\n

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The government will tighten measures against nonpayment of medical expenses by inbound foreign visitors to Japan, with the aim of lowering the amount of nonpayment information to be reflected in entry screening from the current “200,000 yen or more” to “10,000 yen or more” starting in fiscal year 2026. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, November 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

It’s not a decision yet, but measures will be strengthened.<\/h2>\n\n

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The Japanese government is planning to significantly strengthen measures against “unpaid medical bills of foreign visitors to Japan,” which have been increasing in recent years.<\/p>\n\n

Until now, the standard amount of unpaid medical expenses affecting immigration screening was “200,000 yen or more,” but adjustments are underway to make “10,000 yen or more” subject to denial of re-entry starting in FY2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

The number of travelers visiting medical facilities for injuries and illnesses while traveling in Japan is increasing, but there are many cases of travelers leaving the country without paying medical expenses even though they have received treatment, and medical facilities are having a problem with this.<\/p>\n\n

In response, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has been consolidating unpaid information from medical institutions and sharing it with the Immigration and Immigration Control Agency. (We still do.)<\/p>\n\n

Although it has not been in the news until now, travelers will not be able to come to Japan for business or pleasure if they do not pay even a small amount for medical expenses.<\/p>\n\n

Why?\u3000Why is there unpaid?<\/h2>\n\n

Therein lies Japan’s unique medical situation.<\/p>\n\n

(1) Japanese medical institutions have a culture of “treatment first”.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

In many countries,<\/p>\n\n