The comedian and TV host will play in the first tournament of its kind staged in Australia.
Deaths,however,rose to 11.1 million,almost 700,000 more than the previous year and the highest since 1960.
For the first time,six countries are tied at the top of the list,while Australia enjoys access to more destinations than ever.
Among the dead was a five-year-old boy who had been recovering from injuries after boiling water spilled on him during Monday’s 7.6 magnitude earthquake.
An Australian teenager has described how her family managed to escape from the second last row of a Japan Airlines plane,after it burst into flames on the runway.
Air traffic control transcripts suggest the smaller of the two aircraft was asked to hold short of the runway before it collided with the larger JAL passenger jet.
To call the swift evacuation of this burning plane miraculous diminishes the significance of a very human achievement.
Ishikawa prefecture and nearby areas were shaken by more aftershocks,adding to the dozens that followed Monday’s magnitude 7.6 temblor.
“There’s a strong possibility there was a human error,” Hiroyuki Kobayashi,a former pilot and aviation analyst,said of the fiery collision between a Japan Airlines airliner and a coast guard plane.
Authorities are rushing to bring aid to survivors facing freezing temperatures and expected heavy rain that could bring landslides.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed a dozen Australians were among 379 passengers and crew who survived the fiery crash landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.