Please check if you need an entry visa for Japan. Nationals and citizens of those countries and regions shown below are not required to obtain visas to enter Japan when their visits are tourism, commerce, conferences, visiting relatives/ acquaintances, etc. Visitors from outside these 68 countries must apply for a visa in advance.
If you need an entry visa for Japan, please follow these two steps:
- Step 1
Please fill in the ITC-Asia19_visa_assistance_request_form and send it to us by e-mail pc2019@itc-asia.info.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp as soon as possible. This information is necessary to prepare your documents. We will prepare the necessary documents based on your information, and then send them to you by mail. The ITC-Asia 2019 Organizing Committee will provide the visa letters for this international symposium only to:
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- Speakers / Presenters,
- Committee Members,
- Attendees.
Please contact Program Co-Chairs Hideyuki Ichihara and Masahiro Ishida (pc2019@itc-asia.info.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp) for further assistance. If you will be accompanied by someone else, please give us the necessary information about them. In general, you can apply for visas together, but in some cases you must apply separately. Please ask the nearest Japanese Embassy/Consulate.
- Step 2
Please submit the documents, which include the necessary ones we will send, to the Japanese Embassy/Consulate. They will process your documents and decide on your visa application.
※Mailing visa documents (Step 1) often takes two or three weeks, and it can take more than one month for your visa application to be processed (Step 2). So, please send the form as soon as possible.
Detailed Visa Application Procedure can be found here.
| Asia | Europe |
|---|---|
| Brunei (15 days) | Andorra |
| Indonesia | Austria |
| Malaysia | Belgium |
| Republic of Korea | Bulgaria |
| Singapore | Croatia |
| Thailand (15 days) | Cyprus |
| Hong Kong | Czech Republic |
| Macao | Denmark |
| Taiwan | Estonia |
| North America | Finland |
| Canada | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| United States | France |
| Latin America and the Caribbean | Germany |
| Argentina | Greece |
| Bahamas | Hungary |
| Barbados | Iceland |
| Chile | Ireland |
| Costa Rica | Italy |
| Dominican Republic | Latvia |
| El Salvador | Liechtenstein |
| Guatemala | Lithuania |
| Honduras | Luxembourg |
| Mexico | Malta |
| Surinam | Monaco |
| Uruguay | Netherlands |
| Oceania | Norway |
| Australia | Poland |
| New Zealand | Portugal |
| Middle East | Romania |
| Israel | San Marino |
| Turkey | Serbia |
| United Arab Emirates | Slovakia |
| Africa | Slovenia |
| Lesotho | Spain |
| Mauritius | Sweden |
| Tunisia | Switzerland |
| United Kingdom |