Currently, passport photo pages are printed at municipal government offices and Japanese diplomatic missions abroad, which allows for quicker turnaround times. Advanced security The new design ...

Japan's Foreign Ministry announced the new passport on Friday. The photo page is made from hard plastic instead of paper. It also features an IC chip containing personal data. The photograph ...

It uses data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to make the comparison. Japanese passport holders can access 193 of the 227 cities that the index covers without first ...

with each being a two-page spread. For the five-year passport, 16 paintings are displayed in the same manner. Along with promoting Japanese culture in line with the 2020 Tokyo Games, depicting an ...

The Japanese government has unveiled a new passport. The page with the face photo will change from paper to plastic. This is to prevent fake passports and other reasons, and will make them more ...

Based on exclusive data from the world’s largest ... Towards the end of 2023, Japan lost its spot at the top of the passport ranking for the first time in five years, overtaken by Singapore.