Melanie Brock
@melanie.brock.social
Long-term Australian resident of Japan. Mum. Grandmother of three! Non executive director, Chair Emeritus of ANZCCJ, senior advisor for several amazing companies active in 🇦🇺🇯🇵
I am Australian through and through but maybe after having lived in Japan for so long one of the things that I cannot stand is HOW BLOODY LATE PEOPLE ARE!!!!!! Obviously not talking about friends catching up etc but MEETINGS WITH GOVT PEOPLE GAHHHHH GRRRRRRR. 🇦🇺
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I am Australian through and through but maybe after having lived in Japan for so long one of the things that I cannot stand is HOW BLOODY LATE PEOPLE ARE!!!!!! Obviously not talking about friends catching up etc but MEETINGS WITH GOVT PEOPLE GAHHHHH GRRRRRRR. 🇦🇺
Home for a few days. How bloody lovely. 🇯🇵⛰️
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Home for a few days. How bloody lovely. 🇯🇵⛰️
Thirty years ago today the boys and I arrived in Japan. They were so little. I was young! Gahhh. We were thinking about staying for six months….feels like yesterday. 🇦🇺🇯🇵👦🏻💙🎉
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Thirty years ago today the boys and I arrived in Japan. They were so little. I was young! Gahhh. We were thinking about staying for six months….feels like yesterday. 🇦🇺🇯🇵👦🏻💙🎉
Good Morning Tokyo town. 🇯🇵
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Good Morning Tokyo town. 🇯🇵
Reposted by Melanie Brock
Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
Reposted by Melanie Brock
I really think I should get my tomorrow's cartoon out there today, while it's fresh.
Ballroomocracy. My @smh/@theage cartoon.
Ballroomocracy. My @smh/@theage cartoon.
October 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I really think I should get my tomorrow's cartoon out there today, while it's fresh.
Ballroomocracy. My @smh/@theage cartoon.
Ballroomocracy. My @smh/@theage cartoon.
First woman PM for Japan. And yes, the picture of Takaichi san in the Diet proves just how few women there are in politics in Japan. 🇯🇵
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 AM
First woman PM for Japan. And yes, the picture of Takaichi san in the Diet proves just how few women there are in politics in Japan. 🇯🇵
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
Japanese politics!! Woah. 💥 What a time. 🇯🇵
PS Any coverage in Australian media about the developments taking place in one of our key partner countries? (she asks knowing the answer…sigh)
PS Any coverage in Australian media about the developments taking place in one of our key partner countries? (she asks knowing the answer…sigh)
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Japanese politics!! Woah. 💥 What a time. 🇯🇵
PS Any coverage in Australian media about the developments taking place in one of our key partner countries? (she asks knowing the answer…sigh)
PS Any coverage in Australian media about the developments taking place in one of our key partner countries? (she asks knowing the answer…sigh)
豪情報機関トップ「日本の新リーダーと連携強化」中国にらみ 🇦🇺🇯🇵
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
豪情報機関トップ「日本の新リーダーと連携強化」 中国にらみ - 日本経済新聞
【パース=今橋瑠璃華】オーストラリア西部パースで6日、日本と豪州から約700人が出席する経済会議が開催された。豪情報機関トップは日本の自民党の新総裁に就いた高市早苗氏との連携強化に意欲を示した。豪情報機関、国家情報庁（ONI）のシアラー長官は海洋進出を強める中国を念頭に「日豪関係が戦略的な将来の基軸だ」と演説し、日豪がインドを含めた友好国との関係を密にすべきだと強調した。高市氏を巡り、シアラ
www.nikkei.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
豪情報機関トップ「日本の新リーダーと連携強化」中国にらみ 🇦🇺🇯🇵
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
Got my Tshirt ready….. Explained the whole thing to granddaughter Alice who agrees with me. #nomoremanels 🇯🇵🇦🇺👊
October 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Got my Tshirt ready….. Explained the whole thing to granddaughter Alice who agrees with me. #nomoremanels 🇯🇵🇦🇺👊
3.42 million tourists visited Japan in August. Such a hot time to visit. I tend to run away from Japan in the summer. Hope they all had fun. ✈️🇯🇵 www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...
Foreign visitors to Japan hit record 3.42 million in August
The tally was pushed higher by visitors from mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the United States.
www.japantimes.co.jp
September 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
3.42 million tourists visited Japan in August. Such a hot time to visit. I tend to run away from Japan in the summer. Hope they all had fun. ✈️🇯🇵 www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...
Uniqlo!!! 🇯🇵 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance
The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer?
www.newyorker.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Uniqlo!!! 🇯🇵 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Reposted by Melanie Brock
A few ideas
Appoint CEOs who have international experience. Especially in Asia.
And stop promoting internal candidates to CEO who have no international experience.
Appoint more board members with Asia experience.
And have fewer board meetings per year to help internationalise boards.
Appoint CEOs who have international experience. Especially in Asia.
And stop promoting internal candidates to CEO who have no international experience.
Appoint more board members with Asia experience.
And have fewer board meetings per year to help internationalise boards.
September 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A few ideas
Appoint CEOs who have international experience. Especially in Asia.
And stop promoting internal candidates to CEO who have no international experience.
Appoint more board members with Asia experience.
And have fewer board meetings per year to help internationalise boards.
Appoint CEOs who have international experience. Especially in Asia.
And stop promoting internal candidates to CEO who have no international experience.
Appoint more board members with Asia experience.
And have fewer board meetings per year to help internationalise boards.
Like an old record but yes….. oh and QANTAS CEO should take this advice literally. The flying kangaroo has 28 weekly flights to Japan and yet no visit by Ms Hudson? 🇦🇺✈️🇯🇵
www.afr.com/world/asia/a...
www.afr.com/world/asia/a...
Australian businesses must stop flying over Asia and start investing
Canberra must insulate the nation from the fallout of a potential power vacuum left by America.
www.afr.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Like an old record but yes….. oh and QANTAS CEO should take this advice literally. The flying kangaroo has 28 weekly flights to Japan and yet no visit by Ms Hudson? 🇦🇺✈️🇯🇵
www.afr.com/world/asia/a...
www.afr.com/world/asia/a...
Watching PM Ishiba’s resignation speech on YouTube. I find the comments fascinating - lots of people saying a range of different things but now some random person is just posting truckloads of hearts over and over and that is irritating everyone a LOT. Too much hoohaa for a Sunday night I think….🇯🇵
September 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Watching PM Ishiba’s resignation speech on YouTube. I find the comments fascinating - lots of people saying a range of different things but now some random person is just posting truckloads of hearts over and over and that is irritating everyone a LOT. Too much hoohaa for a Sunday night I think….🇯🇵
Sayonara PM Ishiba. Seems he will step down. More at a 6pm presser. No rest for Japanese journos. 🇯🇵 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
石破茂首相が辞任意向 午後6時記者会見、総裁選要求が拡大 - 日本経済新聞
石破茂首相は7日、辞任する意向を固めた。午後6時に臨時記者会見を開く。事実上の退陣勧告である総裁選の前倒し要求が広がる状況を受け、自ら退くべきだと判断した。2024年10月に首相に就任しておよそ1年で退くことになる。自民党は8日に総裁選前倒しの是非を決める予定だった。党所属の295人の国会議員と47都道府県連のうち過半数が要求すれば実施が決まる。日本経済新聞の調査では7日時点で4割超が賛成で、
www.nikkei.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Sayonara PM Ishiba. Seems he will step down. More at a 6pm presser. No rest for Japanese journos. 🇯🇵 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
Most tourists do the right thing and then some dickhead does something like this and gives us all a bad name. 🇦🇺✈️🇯🇵 www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...
Anger in Japan after Instagrammer drinks burial site offering
On Tuesday, the Australian Embassy warned on Facebook that travelers must ensure 'appropriate behavior' while visiting Japan, without explicitly referring to the incident.
www.japantimes.co.jp
September 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Most tourists do the right thing and then some dickhead does something like this and gives us all a bad name. 🇦🇺✈️🇯🇵 www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...
Welcome to Japan, Governor-General 🇦🇺🇯🇵
September 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Welcome to Japan, Governor-General 🇦🇺🇯🇵
On the 小海線 heading to Sakudaira en route to Tokyo for a big week. Loving this cute train that goes from the station closest to me! The train conductor comes through and offers to take photos of the train otakus who are also enjoying the ride!!! 🚂⛰️🇯🇵
September 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
On the 小海線 heading to Sakudaira en route to Tokyo for a big week. Loving this cute train that goes from the station closest to me! The train conductor comes through and offers to take photos of the train otakus who are also enjoying the ride!!! 🚂⛰️🇯🇵