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Japan Sees Business Aviation Surge
Asian nation is seeing rising numbers of foreign visitors, and more arriving business aircraft.

While Japan is currently struggling to return its economy to growth mode, one sector in the Asian nation is booming: foreign tourism. Over the past three years, the number of foreign visitors to Japan has more than doubled, with an economic impact of $25 billion. Last year saw more than one million visitors from the U.S. alone, an all-time high.

While the majority of that influx came via airlines, business aviation has also seen recent spikes. From 2010 through 2015, the average number of business aviation flights grew by approximately 3 percent, and 7.7 percent for international private flights. Last year, business aviation operations in total increased by more than 25 percent.

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