Originally Posted by
invalyd
The visa waiver program has been suspended for 2.5 years. That should be plenty of time to train your gate agents as to what a valid Japanese visa looks like.
Possibly not. Throughout the pandemic, Japan frequently suspended the validity of certain visas with very little notice. The agent would not only need to recognise a visa, but also recognise whether said visa was still valid according to whatever mood the GoJ was in at the time. Furthermore, this eVisa innovation was a relatively recent one.