A record-breaking 691,100 Singaporeans visited Japan in 2024, said the Japan National Tourism Organisation’s (JNTO) Singapore Office on Wednesday (Jan 15). Read more at The Business Times.

In 2025, JNTO is hoping to continue this streak by rolling out their newest initiative ‘Fly & Explore’, this time pushing Singaporeans to venture into Japan’s uncharted regions with handy guides on domestic flight routes, secret spots, and travel tips.

The tenth-busiest widebody route in Japan by number of flights is between Tokyo Narita Airport (NRT) and Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport (BKK). Between January 2025 and November 2025, five different carriers will operate a total of 2,292 flights in each direction on this route.

Singapore's non-oil domestic exports rose 9.0% in December from the same month a year earlier, data on Friday showed, boosted by increased shipments of both electronic and non-electronic goods. The increase compared with a Reuters poll forecast of a rise of 7.

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They wanted to take a break for the holidays, but so did their luggage - quite literally. A Singapore traveller was shocked to find her sister's luggage severely damaged after a family trip from Singapore to Japan last year,

The cocktail club currently has 13 locations in Japan, with several more slated to open by the end of February, including in Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Kyoto, and more. There are also planned future launches in London, New York, Seoul, and Shanghai.

Toyonori Takahashi of Japan's Orix Corporation says Japan’s first casino could outpace those in Singapore and Macau.

Apollo Global Management plans to expand in Japan and add staff to its Asia wealth business, its regional top executive said, as global investment firms pump more resources into the region to capitalise on a surge in deals and assets.

Japan's Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (NTT) has appointed Bank of America and UBS to work on a $1 billion data centre real estate investment trus

Firms’ expenditures going into Japan, Canada and Singapore also hit records. In contrast, new investments into China rose only slightly to US$3.65 billion last year. They accounted for only 7.5 per cent of companies’ total overseas spending – the lowest in data going back to 1991.

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