James Mayger

If you forgot to get someone a Spring Festival gift, Canberra airport has you covered.

Japan to revise economic security law to support projects abroad The government will submit a bill to revise the law during the current session of parliament, which started Wednesday.

Japan plans to revise its economic security promotion law to support companies with economic security-linked projects overseas.

Let’s call it 旧正月 as Japan does. Solve this dispute (while probably creating another one.)

If today is your new year's eve, I hope you get all the dumplings, or tangyuan, or rice cakes that your heart desires.

May your uncles be happy drunk. May your aunties speak of you as the successful cousin everyone should be more like.

And may the year ahead bring good fortune. 🎉🐴🧧🧨

Which pot do the kids go in?

The toys are just bigger now.

NHK's map of election district results shows LDP red making major gains across the country.
Osaka, the home of the LDP's coalition partner, the Ishin Party, remains Ishin territory.
30 minutes after the polls have closed, they haven't called a single district for the Centrist Reform Alliance.

国会はいつもと変わらず、ただそこに在る
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/34b...

小沢一郎落選！

I’m thinking to get a set of mugs of “short-lived PMs” for the office.

Frank Forde and “Black Jack” McEwan don’t get enough respect.

I was disappointed that the Australian parliament doesn’t have a 歴代総理マグ.
Instead you have to buy individual mugs for each one:

Not election related, but photos like this make me miss Tokyo so much (source: Nikkei).

Still remember walking home through snow above my knees one night in 2015/6. Glorious…

I guess it’s frustrating to not have good data to compare with. But also exciting - anything could happen!

Why irritating?

I think this is a more likely site for homes than any of the Victoria barracks: www.defence.gov.au/about/locati...

I couldn’t think of the word for “needle” in Japanese and the only way I could describe it was “sewing spear.”

Which actually is pretty clear.

If you’re gonna talk about me you could at least @ me

Whenever anyone says Japan has “spent $xx billion propping up the yen” you can just point them to this.

Takaichi says Japan-U.S. alliance would 'collapse' if Tokyo ignored Taiwan crisis The prime minister hinted that an attack during a joint military action to rescue Japanese nationals from the democratic island would prompt a response.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said the Japan-U.S. alliance would collapse if Tokyo did nothing in the event U.S. forces were attacked during an emergency involving the evacuation of the allies’ citizens from Taiwan.

German companies' investments in China hit a four-year high in 2025

German nvestments in China climbed to over 7 billion euros between January and November last year, up 55.5% from the 4.5 billion euros in 2024 and 2023.

www.reuters.com/worl...

This might be the most Aussie thing I’ve ever done - calling the council to report a large dead roo on the side of the road.

Canberra life isn’t so bad.

Celebrating Australia Day by the lake.

MSDF must be so mad that they couldn’t get Aegis Ashore approved. Forcing them to do what they likely always wanted to do.

Dramatic day in the JGB market.

You can try and do it in Smarch

加油 (literally)

I didn’t mind that place. As conference centers go it was cozy.

I remember the hotel. And I remember noticing that the floors at some point were rated to tens/hundreds of tons of industrial engines. Just the thing you need for a talkfest.

They moved Davos to the new convention center? I went there while it was under construction and even then it was crazy big.

And also seems totally unsuited for a Davos-like convention. More motor shows and industrial equipment, like Canton Fair.

Not bad.