Foreign passport - gaikokujinryoken

...These passports are divided into two types: ordinary passports (single passports), which expire after one departure and return, and multiple passports (multiple passports), which are valid for a certain period (5 or 10 years in Japan) and allow unlimited departures and return. In addition, some countries have a system of group passports given to group travelers with a leader, and foreign passports given by the host country to stateless persons and foreigners who cannot obtain a passport from their home country. Passports and refugee travel documents issued to refugees by competent international organizations or host countries (for example, the identity card issued by the host country of refugees at the suggestion of High Commissioner for Refugees Nansen during the League of Nations era was called the Nansen passport), as well as travel documents issued by consuls, are recognized as passports in the broad sense in Japan. ...

*Some of the terminology used in relation to "foreign passports" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…これらの旅券は，1回出国して帰国すれば失効する通常旅券(シングル旅券)と一定期間(日本では5または10年間)有効で何回でも出国･帰国できる数次往復旅券(マルティプル旅券)の2種類に分けられる。そのほか，指揮者のいる団体旅行者に一括して与えられる団体旅券，無国籍者や本国の旅券を取得できない外国人に所在国が与える外国人旅券の制度をもつ国もある。権限ある国際機関や所在国が難民に発給する旅券や難民旅行証明書(例えば，国際連盟時代に難民高等弁務官ナンセンの発案で難民所在国が発給した身分証明書はナンセン旅券と呼ばれた)，さらに領事の発行した渡航証明書などが，広義の旅券として日本で認められている。…

※「外国人旅券」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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