Nearly 1 million Australians visited Japan last year, marking a 50 per cent increase in visitor numbers, as the country records a bumper year in tourism. Japan recorded 36.87 million visitors throughout 2024,

Donna Burke has the most famous voice you've never heard of. The Australian expat first moved to Japan in the 1990s, hoping to make it as a singer. Now, she's the voice of the Tokaido Shinkansen, commonly known as the bullet train,

With the number of Australian tourists visiting Japan surging, officials in the island empire have made a plea to their Pacific neighbours to be more adventurous when choosing among Japanese destinations.

SAITAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A series of Japanese paintings mainly depicting the misery of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima will be displayed at a gallery in Australia this year, the 80th ...

By dispatching its foreign minister to the event, Tokyo seems intent on asserting its influence - and avoiding being upstaged by Beijing In a gesture heavy with symbolism, strategy and no small measure of urgency,

In a heated Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled the proposed defense secretary over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, asking him if he could name one m

Coco Gauff and two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka have moved closer to another semifinal showdown at the Australian Open. Gauff eliminated 2021 U.S.

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said on Sunday he planned to attend Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president on Jan. 20, as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's government hopes to maintain close ties with its security ally.

The U.S. secretary of state and the foreign ministers of Australia, India and Japan are expected to meet in Washington on Tuesday, the day after President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, people familiar with the matter said.

However, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and Thailand also recorded improvements in deal volume, with increases of 30.2 per cent, 6.7 per cent, 8.2 per cent and 6.5 per cent, respectively ...

Hegseth responded at the heated Senate confirmation hearing that he couldn’t tell Duckworth the exact number of ASEAN nations, but that “I know we have allies in South Korea and Japan in AUKUS (a pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S.) with Australia.”

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