The world's most powerful passport just got a makeover. Japan is issuing passports featuring art by ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai to Japanese citizens who applied after February 4.
Japan is issuing passports featuring art by ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai to Japanese citizens who applied after February 4.
"Ukiyo-e" is a genre of mass-produced Japanese woodblock prints that display everything from theater announcements and landscapes to sumo wrestlers and even salacious erotica.The new passports will feature the"Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" series created by Hokusai in the 19th century, which features one of Japan's best-known ukiyo-e prints,"The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
The 10-year passport has 54 pages, excluding the front cover. Each of the 24 works that compose the"Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" will be used as a single work on the 48 pages of the back cover, personal information page and visa column.The new Japan passport pages, pictured, feature the "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji."The Foreign Ministry decided to redesign the passport four years ago.
The ministry said the complicated design will strengthen counterfeit-prevention measures but also help introduce Japanese culture to the world as the country prepares to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games., which periodically measures the world's most travel-friendly passports, released its first report of the new decade in January 2020.
Japan is now top of the leaderboard, its passports offering visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to an incredible 191 destinations around the world.
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