Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

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. 🇦🇺

Speaking with family in Hachinohe. Everyone on edge! #quake 🇯🇵

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. 🇦🇺🇯🇵👦🏻💙🎉

Good Morning Tokyo town. 🇯🇵

Updating my LEGO White House

I really think I should get my tomorrow's cartoon out there today, while it's fresh. 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. 🇯🇵

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Woah!!! Nikkei 🇯🇵

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)

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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 🇦🇺🇯🇵

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!!! 🚂⛰️🇯🇵

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！！

‘Nothing special’. Wow!! 🗻🇯🇵

Seated next to a well-known Australian journo at lunch the other day (in Australia) and when I told him I lived in Japan he asked me if the ‘Japs are still racist’. Man oh man. PS You can guess which paper he writes for. 🇦🇺🇯🇵

Completely agree. It’s too easy for foreigners to buy property in Japan. t.co/dk9uGfdcR0

Around 76% of high-performing women receive negative feedback compared to only 2% of men fortune.com/2024/08/08/m...

At last!!! ✈️🇦🇺

オーストラリアのマールズ副首相兼国防相は５日、海軍が建造を計画する次期フリゲート艦１１隻の調達先について、日本の三菱重工業を選定したと表明した。アジア太平洋で中国が海洋進出を進める中、オーストラリア軍と自衛隊の相互運用性を高めて両国の安全保障関係を強化する。過去にオーストラリアの潜水艦の受注を逃した日本にとって、９年越しの巻き返しとなる。 bit.ly/3UJdG47

Huge day for Japan and Australia and also for my home state WA. Japan wins $10b bid to build new warships. 🇯🇵🇦🇺

NHK’s cartoon of the day is a ripper! 🇯🇵

The hibakusha from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and all nuclear weapons survivors are entrusting us with their stories.We must ensure their memories do not fade. By holding their memory, we carry their fight forward. #NihonHidankyo #NuclearBan #CranesOfMemory app.sosha.ai/s/lomogaO5

A record 42 women won seats in Japan's House of Councillors election, surpassing the previous record of 35 set in the 2022 upper house vote. Women won 33.6% of the total 125 seats up for grabs this year. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Sitting next to elderly couple on the 🚄. Been a while since they’ve been out of Tokyo. Commenting on what has changed, how different life seems now, various cities so built up etc. Say that life was easier back in their day, they feel for young people and that 🇯🇵 wages are too low. 👍 #eavesdropping

My first time to the Sumidagawa fireworks and it was amazing. Probably my favourite part was noting a couple of Tobu train drivers slowing down as they crossed the bridge to allow passengers a longer glimpse of the magnificent fireworks. Hope the drivers didn’t get into trouble. 🎆🇯🇵

Post Ishiba. A Kishida comeback? 🇯🇵

Beautiful evening for fireworks. #Tokyo #Asahi 🎆🇯🇵

Choices. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Trump says US and Japan have reached trade deal https://on.ft.com/44Ll6Kh

Japan just doesn’t seem to feature in Australian media. Well, there are stories about the best izakaya and what to do in Kyoto but…we need to focus more on Japan, politics and the economy, given the increased relevance of the Australia-Japan relationship? Anything about Sunday’s election? #media 🇦🇺🇯🇵

#womeninpolitics #Japan 🇯🇵👩🏻 www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07...

“The next few days will be filled with congratulations and recriminations, jockeying for coalition possibilities and promises,” writes Donna Weeks in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/upper-house-election-exposes-japan-s-fragmenting-political-landscape

Huge political shift in Japan. Big whack to LDP and Komeito. Massive changes afoot. And frightening to see the hold far-right ‘Japanese First’ party has on people. #Japan 🇯🇵🗳️

Excellent questions about the Japanese Upper House election. Excellent answers too. Here we go @tobiasharris.bsky.social 🇯🇵🗳️

Election Day! I don’t have a vote here in Japan (or in Australia 😢) but I really hope that everyone turns up and votes! #投票 #参議院選 🗳️🇯🇵