PM Kishida PM's Office of Japan has now departed 🇦🇺. After a visit chockers with the best Australia has to offer, we can safely and confidently say that our Special Strategic Partnership is at an all-time high. Hoo-roo and come again soon!

Welcome to 🇦🇺! PM Kishida & PM Albanese had a warm & candid meeting in Perth. This culminated in a new declaration on security cooperation, with a view to increasing deterrence due to the changing security environment in the Indo-Pacific.
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Latest Edition: Back to Japan on Business
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After a long hiatus, my thoughts on returning to Japan, attending the AJBCC Conference in Tokyo, and witnessing the renewed vigour & enthusiasm of those working hard for the 🇯🇵🇦🇺 relationship.

A gigantic delegation of 33 top corporate execs from 🇯🇵's industrial heartland of Chubu (midland region) in Canberra! Excited to see them inspired by business opportunities through their trip to WA and Victoria. Busy days ahead!

🇯🇵 Prime Minister KISHIDA PM's Office of Japan will visit 🇦🇺 this weekend, accelerating our Special Strategic Partnership even further. Perth is the ideal setting - located at the geopolitical nexus of Australia and the Indo-Pacific, and the economic nexus of our own 🇯🇵🇦🇺 relationship.

A hearty congratulations, Rory! Your incredible achievements in the fields of academia and tertiary education are also why you have been awarded the 🇯🇵 Foreign Minister’s Commendation for promoting mutual understanding between 🇯🇵 & 🇦🇺. Omedetou gozaimasu!

Back in Oz, and delighted to host Mr David Glass & his friends last night to discuss regional security & 🇯🇵🇦🇺 cooperation. In challenging times you need serious analysis, and this is some of the best around - non-partisan, clear-cut & always insightful. #QUAD #AUKUS

Welcome to my hometown of Karuizawa in Nagano, where a volcano stands majestic, and streams run clear and crisp. While its serenity had enchanted a number of writers in the past, I hope it will enchant even more 🇦🇺tourists soon.

Today is 150 years since the first railway line opened in 🇯🇵. What began with steam engines 🚂 evolved into the comfortable, elegant shinkansen 🚅, and even the JR Tokai mag-lev which can run at 600 km/h! (That could take you from SYD to MELB in <2 hrs)
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Yesterday, 🇯🇵 welcomed back int'l tourists. While 🇦🇺s might head to Kyoto's bamboo forests, Osaka's takoyaki shops or Tokyo's shopping malls, I recommend venturing out to these places for a truly unique & colourful view of 🇯🇵. Indeed, 🇯🇵 has lots to offer! japan.travel/en/au/story/7-…

Okaerinasai! As of today, 🇯🇵 is open again to tourists around the world! ✈️🌏 Visa exemptions for 🇦🇺 have also been reinstated. All over the country, we have been waiting to welcome you back! Have you booked your tickets?
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What a memorable violin performance by Paralympian ITO Manami in Tokyo! It epitomised this year’s #AJBCC conference theme: 'Going beyond the disruption - designing a new future'.
🇯🇵 and 🇦🇺 aspire to thrive in adversity.

Enjoyed Floriade, #KenBehrens ? Why not add a flower garden to your 🇯🇵 bucket list? 🌻 With only 1⃣ day until the border reopens, here are some suggestions (the best time for sunflowers in Saga is November, by the way!) ➡️
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Joined many inspirational leaders at the #AJBCC & #JABCC Conference in Tokyo discussing future opportunities for our 🇯🇵🇦🇺 relationship. Great to catch up with some old friends!

Here's one for those racing to get back to Japan 🏎️ This weekend, Suzuka International Circuit will host the F1 Japanese Grand Prix for the first time since 2019 🏁 Check out 🇯🇵 driver TSUNODA Yuki's specially-designed helmet to mark the occasion🌸
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Arrived back in 🇯🇵 on business. Hopped on a bullet train 🚄 and arrived in Nagoya. Look at what I saw in the station – a real Toyota Supra and its Lego counterpart! Just unbelievable!

The countdown is on! Today is only 5⃣ days until 🇯🇵 borders reopen to individual tourists. To celebrate, here is a photo of the rare ‘Red Fuji’ phenomenon 🗻 Why not go to see a snow-capped Mt Fuji with your own eyes this winter?

Great to catch up with top journalists of CBR, together with a good friend of 🇯🇵, film producer Roger Pulvers.
While bidding a fond farewell to Chris Uhlmann who retired last week, I cannot wait to see Secret City III. I will keep an eye out for a character named Shingo! 🕵️

Extremely proud that 🇯🇵 was named the most Google'd travel destination by Aussies in the past 20 years ✈️ With borders open to individual tourists next week (11 Oct), we hope to see many more 🇦🇺 tourists carving up the slopes ⛷️ or scoffing takoyaki 🥢
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