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🏮The ECU Japan Festival is on next Wednesday! Enjoy an afternoon of 🇯🇵Japanese festival fun with activities hosted by Tokyo City University students! 🇯🇵 ECU Japan Festival 🗓️ Wednesday April 22 📍 ECU Joondalup Campus (outside Building 32) 🕑 12.30PM-2.30PM

🚢The Icebreaker JS Shirase set sail from Fremantle Ports earlier this week, returning to Japan after four months at sea. We wish them a safe journey and look forward to welcoming them back to WA when they embark on the next Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition.

🎉 Acting Consul-General Hasegawa joined Captain Iwase, Commanding Officer of JS Shirase, Basil Zempilas MLA, Leader of the WA Opposition, and the Hon Andrew O'Donnell MLC, Convenor of the Parliamentary Friends of Japan, for the sake barrel opening ceremony aboard the JS Shirase.

🚢 Commanding Officer of JS Shirase Captain Iwase and crew welcomed guests aboard the Icebreaker this week, celebrating their return voyage from the 67th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition and extending their gratitude to all Australian and Japanese supporters.

🚢The Icebreaker JS Shirase made its way into Fremantle Ports over the weekend, returning from a research mission around the Totten Glacier on the 67th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition.

🌸Celebrating 10 Years of Tokyo Alley🌸 The Consulate-General of Japan in Perth is hosting a wishing wall for you to share your 10 YEAR GOAL at this year's Tokyo Alley! Music: Soft serve Musician: Rook1e

🤘 Babymetal toured Australia last month and Consulate staff showed their support at the #Perth concert! #ThrowbackThursday West Aussie fans brought an amazing energy to the electric performance by Su-metal, Moametal & Momometal! @BABYMETAL_JAPAN

🇦🇺🇯🇵 Celebrating 50 Years of Friendship! We celebrated 50 years of Friendship and Cooperation between Australia and Japan with a message wall at this year’s Perth Japan Festival!

🇯🇵 Consul-General Karimata attended the 2026 Perth Japan Festival last weekend! He joined government representatives and festival partners in opening the festival with #kagamibiraki and enjoyed some of the festival activities. Read more here: facebook.com/CGJPERTH

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙄𝙩𝙨 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 They have navigated past hurdles. They have dazzled fans. 🇯🇵 Japan and 🇦🇺 Australia will now give one final push for the #WAC2026 title!

🇦🇺🇯🇵 Consul-General Karimata welcomed students from Kanto Daiichi High School to his residence last week, as they visit Perth for exchange with Ocean Reef Senior High School and St James’ Anglican School.

📣 Interested in studying in #Japan? Join our information sessions to learn more about studying abroad in 🇯🇵Japan and what scholarship opportunities are out there for you! Check out our Facebook page for more details.

📣Perth Japan Festival this Saturday! Enjoy a full day packed with 🇯🇵 Japanese food, music and live performances in this massive celebration of Japanese culture. 📅 Saturday 14 March 🕐11AM – 8PM 📍Langley Park 🎟️FREE ENTRY

📣🇯🇵 Nadeshiko has made it to the quarter-finals of the ⚽️AFC Women's Asian Cup Australia 2026, following a win against Vietnam yesterday! Thanks to the Japanese community for rallying together to show their support and best of luck to Team Japan as they head to Sydney!

🌏 Consul-General Karimata and Deputy Consul-General Hasegawa joined members from the Japanese Association of Western Australia for Clean Up! Australia at City Beach last weekend. cleanup.org.au

🇦🇺🇯🇵 Ambassador Suzuki attended the annual Japan Symposium last week, hosted by @PerthUSAsia. This year’s theme explored Australia–Japan cooperation in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of The Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation. @JPEmbassyAU

📣A win for Team #Japan! Consul-General Karimata and Deputy Consul-General Hasegawa cheered on 🇯🇵Team Japan at the ⚽️AFC Women's Asian Cup Australia 2026 yesterday, with Nadeshiko achieving a 2-0 win against Chinese Taipei. Check out more here: bit.ly/WACCPJapan

“Excited for the opportunity to visit @WoodsideEnergy & Japan Suiso Energy proposed #H2Perth Hydrogen Production & Shipping project in Kwinana, #WA. Hydrogen is an important step towards #NETZero and I am looking forward the development of this project going forward.”-Amb Suzuki

“An honour to meet again with Premier @RogerCookMLA in #Perth and discuss Japan’s strong relationship with Western Australia. I enjoyed meaningful conversation on how to further promote 🇯🇵 & #WA’s growing cooperation across political and economic domains."-Amb Suzuki

“Fantastic to participate in another inspiring Japan Symposium thanks to @PerthUSAsia @lgflake. I greatly value the event which brings together experts , business leaders & officials @AusAmbJPN every year to share perspectives & visions for the 🇯🇵🇦🇺partnership #AUJP50”-Amb Suzuki