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Save your yen: How to travel Japan on a budget

Japan is already a good-value destination, but here are a few key tips on how to make your yen stretch even further.

  • Brian Johnston

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol.

Economic carnage ‘worse than ’70s’ as PM admits ‘stable, predictable world’ is gone

International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol has warned that governments have failed to inform their citizens of the scale of economic damage being wrought by the Iran war.

  • Mike Foley
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi with Donald Trump.

Don’t mention the war! Trump drops Pearl Harbour bomb in another excruciating White House moment

Japan’s prime minister was bracing for a difficult meeting with the US president when it took an unexpected diversion back to Japan’s role in World War II.

  • Lisa Visentin
Trump trade wars, paid for by American companies and consumers, are hurting the US economy and adding to households’ affordability issues even as his war on Iran has sent oil prices – and US petrol prices – surging.

Trump rushes to save his war on the world

While America was waging war in Iran, the US president began preparing for a renewed assault on America’s trading partners.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
A whale breaches in the Antarctic near a krill trawler.

Whales go to Antarctica to get fat. Humans are taking their food

First it was Whale Wars, now it’s krill wars. The groups that took on Japanese whaling in Antarctica now have a new industry in their sights.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The Oita prefecture is known for its traditional rural scenery.

How to enjoy the simple life on a Japanese farm stay

This tourist experience offers a delicious taste of the simple life in Kyushu and insight into the Japanese concept of “ikigai”.

  • Ben Groundwater
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Chloe Jeffries, 8, was remembered as a “very special part” of her local netball community.

Eight-year-old Gold Coast girl killed at Japanese ski resort

Chloe Jeffries became the fourth Australian to die at a Japanese ski resort this year after the snowmobile she and her mother were riding overturned.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Kagoshima, viewed from Shiroyama Observatory.

Port guide: Kagoshima, Japan

Japan’s southernmost big city is relaxed and easy-going, but has one almighty sight that might make you leap in alarm. Prepare for a smoking hot encounter.

  • Brian Johnston
Shimonada station, overlooks the calm waters of the Seto Inland Sea.

Forget Tokyo or Kyoto. This humble station is Japan’s most photographed

Not even the frenetic train terminals of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto can match the Instagram appeal of this obscure whistle-stop station in a remote beauty spot.

  • Anthony Dennis
Beppu is an elemental place, you feel close to nature here, and you feel its power.

The secret I’m not supposed to tell you about Japan’s famous onsen town

My guide reveals the risque reason many people flock to this hot-spring hotspot. Then we get naked together.

  • Ben Groundwater