Getting around Japan just became a little more difficult

Getting around Japan just became a little more difficult

With a critical global shortage of the materials required to produce Japan’s popular IC transport cards,sales have been suspended indefinitely.

  • byBen Groundwater

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Family of WA woman locked up in Japan want alleged scammers tracked down

Family of WA woman locked up in Japan want alleged scammers tracked down

Donna Nelson is facing decades in a Japanese prison after she was allegedly caught with drugs at Narita Airport in Tokyo.

  • byMichael Genovese
Shoes off inside:10 things Australia should adopt from Japan
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Shoes off inside:10 things Australia should adopt from Japan

There’s so much about Japanese culture that we in Australia would do well to adopt,that would make our own country even better.

  • byBen Groundwater
‘It’s as if everything is gone’:Richard Flanagan on his most important book

‘It’s as if everything is gone’:Richard Flanagan on his most important book

The Booker Prize-winning author says he feels a great silence within him after completing his latest work.

  • byMelanie Kembrey
Creepy,jarring:20 years on,I don’t love Lost in Translation any more
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Creepy,jarring:20 years on,I don’t love Lost in Translation any more

It’s one of the great travel films,but some elements of Sofia Coppola’s story of two lost souls in Tokyo don’t look so good these days.

  • byBen Groundwater
Next stop China:Cook takes Asian tour to state’s biggest trading partner
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Next stop China:Cook takes Asian tour to state’s biggest trading partner

Nine News Perth can reveal the state government will use the visit to lobby for direct flights,a service that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • byMichael Genovese
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Friend of Hawke was ambassador to the US,Indonesia and Israel

Friend of Hawke was ambassador to the US,Indonesia and Israel

As ambassador to Israel from 1972-1975,Rawdon Dalrymple managed the intense policy and consular demands of the Yom Kippur war.

  • byDennis Richardson
WA premier meets ambassador to discuss Donna Nelson case during Japan visit

WA premier meets ambassador to discuss Donna Nelson case during Japan visit

The family of prominent Indigenous community leader and former WA Greens candidate Donna Nelson say she was a victim of a Nigerian love scam.

  • byHolly Thompson
How do you get a multimillion-dollar racehorse from Japan to Sydney?

How do you get a multimillion-dollar racehorse from Japan to Sydney?

They come out from Europe,Japan and New Zealand each year to win Australia’s mega money races. But what actually goes into moving the beasts across countries?

  • byAdam Pengilly
An epic and poetic walk in a Japanese legend’s footsteps

An epic and poetic walk in a Japanese legend’s footsteps

Following in the footsteps of a haiku master on Japan’s main island is poetry in motion.

  • byCatherine Marshall
Forcing people to be sterilised to change gender is unlawful,Japan’s Supreme Court rules

Forcing people to be sterilised to change gender is unlawful,Japan’s Supreme Court rules

The 2003 law requiring the removal of sex organs to obtain a state-recognised gender change has long been criticised.

  • byNicola Smith