Overview
- Prime Minister Lawrence Wong is on a March 17–19 official visit that includes a guard-of-honour ceremony, a working dinner with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, meetings with senior political and business leaders, and a reception for overseas Singaporeans.
- Singapore and Japan have agreed to deepen cooperation on cross-border electricity, low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia, carbon capture, civil nuclear energy, liquefied natural gas, and advanced grid technologies.
- Wong used a Nikkei op-ed to frame the 60-year relationship and set priorities that include stronger economic resilience, digital trade, and trusted cross-border data flows.
- He called for expanded collaboration on frontier technologies such as AI, quantum and space, as well as closer work with ASEAN initiatives like the ASEAN Power Grid and regional security efforts including counterterrorism and disaster relief.
- The partnership rests on substantial ties, with more than 5,300 Japanese-registered companies in Singapore, significant two-way trade and investment, and 2025 travel flows of about 620,000 visitors from Japan to Singapore and 720,000 from Singapore to Japan.