Japan
Yalata’s Aboriginal Community Promote Peace in Nagasaki
Representative members of the Yalata Aboriginal community are travelling to Nagasaki, Japan this week, to offer a peace sculpture at......
70 years on from Hiroshima, nuclear weapons still pose a threat
Seventy years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, survivors are still suffering, a Red Cross study shows.......
Japanese military sovereignty in the 21st century
Japan’s government has passed new legislation in their lower parliament which would allow a military force to deploy overseas. In......
Australia looks set to turn to Japan to build our submarines
The Australian government looks likely to source its submarines from Japan, in a move that would break its election promise......
Abe’s in town
Today Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe addressed a joint sitting of Parliament in Canberra. He’s in town to sign a......
Japan signing free-trade agreement
The much announced free-trade agreement with Japan is to be signed tomorrow after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses parliament. Although......
Japan could be back to their old whaling ways – sooner than expected
Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd says it will meet Japanese whalers in the southern ocean and do what it takes to......
Japan deal surprises fair trade advocates, pleases beef producers
Fair trade advocates are pleasantly surprised that a controversial clause was left out of Australia’s trade and investment deal with......
‘Best ever’ trade and investment deal with Japan: is there a downside?
Tony Abbott says he’s sealed a historic trade deal with Japan, but experts are divided on the question of the......
Nuclear walk from Tokyo to Sendai
Imagine this: you’re driving on a country road, and you pass a young man running barefoot. He hasn’t shaved for......