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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 15/03/2026

Beautiful Fuji san 🗻🇯🇵

Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 06/01/2026

Thank goodness for the lovely Narita ground staff though…. Otsukaresama to you all for what has no doubt been a super busy time! #年末年始 🇯🇵✈️

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 06/01/2026

Treatment of re-entry permit holders at Narita airport is shocking. I mean the machines are crap everywhere but gruff and rude immigration officials are a plenty here. Guess even permanent residents can expect a rough ride here in Japan here on in. 🇯🇵✈️

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 01/01/2026

明けましておめでとうございます. HNY wishes for a gentle 2026! 🎍🌅🇯🇵

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 10/12/2025

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. 🇦🇺

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 08/12/2025

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

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 28/11/2025

Home for a few days. How bloody lovely. 🇯🇵⛰️

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 05/11/2025

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. 🇦🇺🇯🇵👦🏻💙🎉

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 26/10/2025

Good Morning Tokyo town. 🇯🇵

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Updating my LEGO White House

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I really think I should get my tomorrow's cartoon out there today, while it's fresh. Ballroomocracy. My @smh/@theage cartoon.

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 21/10/2025

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. 🇯🇵

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 14/10/2025

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)

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 03/10/2025

Got my Tshirt ready….. Explained the whole thing to granddaughter Alice who agrees with me. #nomoremanels 🇯🇵🇦🇺👊

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 18/09/2025

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...

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Foreign visitors to Japan hit record 3.42 million in August

The tally was pushed higher by visitors from mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the United States.

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 15/09/2025

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

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Fernando Gros @fernandogros.com · 10/09/2025

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.

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 09/09/2025

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...

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Australian businesses must stop flying over Asia and start investing

Canberra must insulate the nation from the fallout of a potential power vacuum left by America.

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 07/09/2025

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….🇯🇵

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 03/09/2025

Welcome to Japan, Governor-General 🇦🇺🇯🇵

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 01/09/2025

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!!! 🚂⛰️🇯🇵

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荒木健太郎 @arakencloud.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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！！

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 27/08/2025

‘Nothing special’. Wow!! 🗻🇯🇵

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 16/08/2025

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. 🇦🇺🇯🇵

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Reuters Japan @japan.reuters.com · 05/08/2025

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

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豪、次期フリゲート艦に三菱重を選定　日本9年越しの巻き返し

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 05/08/2025

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

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 31/07/2025

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

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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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

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The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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...

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Record 42 women win seats in Japan upper house election - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A record 42 women won seats in Japan's House of Councillors election on Sunday, surpassing the previous record of 35 set in the 2022

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 27/07/2025

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

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 27/07/2025

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. 🎆🇯🇵

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 27/07/2025

Post Ishiba. A Kishida comeback? 🇯🇵

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 26/07/2025

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

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Choices. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Wasteland. Headscarfed, gaunt woman on ground cradling skinny skeletal child. Gaunt man sitting on upturned bucket at crate as table looking at menu “GHF menu - Starve - Be shot”. Netanyahu as bow-tied waiter saying: “…and for monsieur?”

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Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social · 21/07/2025

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 🇦🇺🇯🇵

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