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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 1d

Japan's top opposition steps up efforts to assemble coalition for PM vote

CDP leader Noda calls on DPFP counterpart Tamaki to negotiate

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 1d

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)

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 6d

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...

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

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 9d

Thank you!!!

Foreign visitors to Japan hit record 3.42 million in August

Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 12d

Got my Tshirt ready….. Explained the whole thing to granddaughter Alice who agrees with me. #nomoremanels 🇯🇵🇦🇺👊

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 27d

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...

The tally was pushed higher by visitors from mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the United States.

Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 27d

Uniqlo!!! 🇯🇵 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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?

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スーパーウーマン「なれない」　緩い残業抑制、育児負担の偏りに悲鳴 - 日本経済新聞

Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 29d

スーパーウーマン「なれない」　
緩い残業抑制、育児負担の偏りに悲鳴：Nikkei 🇯🇵👩🏻 #womenofjapan
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

2024年の日本人の出生数が70万人を割るなど少子化に歯止めがかからない。残業や転勤が前提の働き方が変わらず、長時間労働と家事・育児をこなせない限り誰もが何かを諦めている。両立支援や少子化対策に何が足りないのか。大手ゼネコンに勤める40代の女性は、第1子出産後に「うつ状態」と診断された。花形の設計部で活躍していたが、子どもができて定時退社するようになり仕事が回らない。絶えず時間に追われ、悪夢に

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 15

Enjoy!!! 🇦🇺✈️🇯🇵

Australian businesses must stop flying over Asia and start investing

Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 15

My grandkids just rang me to wish me Happy Old People’s Day! Nice, I think. #敬老の日 ❤️🇯🇵🇦🇺🧑🏻‍🦳

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Fernando Gros @fernandogros.com · Sep 9

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.

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 9

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...

Canberra must insulate the nation from the fallout of a potential power vacuum left by America.

www.afr.com

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 7

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….🇯🇵

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 7

But many pollies thought he would hold on for a bit

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 7

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、

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 5

🇯🇵🇦🇺 www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...

After China’s military parade, Japan and Australia agree to elevate defense ties

The countries’ top diplomats and defense chiefs committed to deepening collective deterrence amid shared concerns over the security environment in the Indo-Pacific region.

Anger in Japan after Instagrammer drinks burial site offering

Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 4

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...

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/business/202...

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 3

Welcome to Japan, Governor-General 🇦🇺🇯🇵

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Sep 1

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!!! 🚂⛰️🇯🇵

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荒木健太郎 @arakencloud.bsky.social · Aug 30

どうかお願いです。
熱中症に本気で気をつけてください。

8/30の最高気温は関東・甲信で40℃、東海で40～41℃予報の地域があり、命に関わる危険な暑さになります。
小さなお子様や高齢者の体調をいつもより気にかけてください。冷房使用等で暑さを避けて、こまめに水分補給を。

万全の暑さ対策を！！

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Aug 27

‘Nothing special’. Wow!! 🗻🇯🇵

The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · Aug 27

A 102-year-old Japanese man with a serious heart condition has been certified as the oldest person to climb Mount Fuji — but still shrugged off the feat as nothing special. ebx.sh/z4DgyD

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Aug 24

Share of female managers in Japan still short of government target

The survey found that the share of such women rose 0.2 percentage point from the previous year to 11.1% on average, growing for the 11th straight year.

Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · Aug 20

Horrifying indeed!