TOKYO -- Japan will take in people fleeing Ukraine amid Russia's invasion and consider options to work around stringent coronavirus-related entry curbs, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday.
Kishida weighs separate arrangement from COVID border controls

A woman who fled Russia's invasion of Ukraine holds her grandson as she sits near a refugee shelter Hungary. © Reuters
TOKYO -- Japan will take in people fleeing Ukraine amid Russia's invasion and consider options to work around stringent coronavirus-related entry curbs, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday.