Japanese passport

Japanese passport
日本国旅券
The front cover of a contemporary
10 years Japanese passport
Identity Information Page of a 10 years Japanese biometric passport
TypePassport
Issued byMinistry of Foreign Affairs
First issued21 May 1866[1][a]
(letter of request)
1 January 1926[1]
(booklet)
1 November 1992[1]
(machine-readable passport)
20 March 2006[2]
(biometric passport)
31 August 2013[3]
4 February 2020[4][5]
(current version)
PurposeIdentification
EligibilityJapanese citizenship
Expiration10 years or 5 years
or shorter [6] after acquisition for adults,
5 years for ages under 17
Cost10 year adult passport;
¥16,000
5 year passport for 12-year-old or over;
¥11,000
5 year passport for 11-year-old or under;
¥6,000[7]

Japanese passports (日本国旅券, Nihonkoku ryoken) are issued to Japanese nationals to facilitate international travel. From 2018 to 2022, it was ranked first on the Henley Passport Index for visa-free travel,[8] and second as of July 2024, with holders able to travel visa-free to 194 countries and territories.[9]

  1. ^ a b c "旅券の変遷と最近の動向(海外渡航文書150周年に際して)" (PDF). 外務省. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Council of the European Union - PRADO - JPN-AO-02002". www.consilium.europa.eu.
  3. ^ "Council of the European Union - PRADO - JPN-AO-02003". www.consilium.europa.eu.
  4. ^ "2020年旅券の申請受付開始について". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
  5. ^ "New Japanese passports featuring ukiyo-e by Katsushika Hokusai to be issued from this month". 3 February 2020.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "こんな時、パスポートQ&A". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
  7. ^ "パスポートの申請から受領まで(初めてパスポートを申請するとき等の例)". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
  8. ^ "Major Shake-Up in World's Passport Power Ranking". Henley & Partners. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  9. ^ "The Henley Passport Index Global Ranking 2024". July 22, 2023. Retrieved July 22, 2024.


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