Japanese Visitors to Australia
I’ve mentioned before that the number of Japanese tourists to Australia has been falling. Number of Japanese Tourists Visiting Australia: 1997: 814,000 2009: 355,000 Last year there were less than half the number of visitors that were coming more than 10 years ago. Recently the Australian government launched another campaign to attract more Japanese tourists. [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - Australia, News - Japan, News Articles, Travel, Travel - Australia | Permalink | No Comments »Music For Dogs
The Vivid Festival is on in Sydney at the moment. One of the events was a music concert for dogs. Music For Dogs http://vividsydney.com/events/vivid-live/music-for-dogs The World Premiere of a unique concert experience on the Sydney Opera House Forecourt, for you… and your dog! Laurie Anderson has composed a 20 minute work to create a shared [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - Australia, News - Japan, News Articles, Travel, Travel - Australia | Permalink | No Comments »Sydney Ninjas
There was a news story last week about some robbers who attacked someone in front of a ninja school in Sydney. The ninjas came to the rescue. Lots of foreigners are interested in studying Japanese martial arts and there are several ninjutsu schools in Australia. When I visited Bolivia, I met some people who studied [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - Australia, News - Japan, News Articles, Travel, Travel - Australia | Permalink | No Comments »World’s Top 50 restaurants
Sydney’s Quay restaurant is the 27th best restaurant in the world and Australia’s finest. The restaurant, which debuted at No.46 last year, leaped 19 places to its new ranking on the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, announced in London overnight. Tetsuya’s was the only other Australian restaurant to make the top 50, dropping to [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - Australia, News - Japan, News Articles, Travel, Travel - Australia | Permalink | No Comments »Japanese Living in Australia
Sao Paulo, Honolulu, New York and Los Angeles have some of the largest Japanese communities outside of Japan. In the last ten years, although the number of Japanese visiting Australia has decreased, the number of Japanese choosing to stay in Australia has increased. Now Sydney is the 6th largest Japanese community outside of Japan and [...]
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