Australian Ambassador to Japan Bruce Miller has implored Japan to actively engage in negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Miller, during an interview with a Japanese newspaper during the week, called the relationship between the two countries a “win-win” one, then went on to urge Japan to grow, saying that Asia could not grow without Japan. Miller spoke to the newspaper about the recently released white paper, “Australia in the Asian Century,” in which Japan was named as an important partner for Australia. Miller said that Australia can contribute to Asia in many ways, helping with economic growth through the…
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Australia’s revolutionary passports have been given the Wako treatment in Japan. No, that’s not a spelling mistake (it’s pronounced Wah-Koh, not whacko), nor does it mean Down Under travel documents are being held up to ridicule. In fact, Wako University, a tertiary institution located in the outer Tokyo suburb of Machida, typically uses posters hung up in the carriages of capital area trains to provide a short lesson for commuters. The university’s current poster focuses on how Australia now deals with the issue of gender when it comes to issuing passports. The distinctive yellow posters, effectively an advertisement for the…
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Oh, no! What a Hugh-ge spelling mistake! 豪出身ハリウッド俳優ヒュー・ジャックマンが主演となり、真田広之や岡本多緒共演の2013年公開予定映画「ウルヴァリン: SAMURAI」をシドニーで撮影し、同市の一角を10月16日までに映画の舞台である東京に変身した。 行ったことがなければ、再現したところを人目で見れば日本の都市のどこかと思われるかもしれないが、よ～く見るとビルの２階窓の看板に貼っている字がオーストラリア独特な「She’ll be right, mate（なんとかなる、さ）」気持ちを込めているようだ、、、間違っている！ 「ヨガ」のはずであるの「ヨ」の向けが逆になっている。 しょうがないね、、、 Tokyo in Parramatta Video: Parramatta transformed into Tokyo Related posts: Striking a Light for Strine 「豪」にいれば「豪語」に従えって？ ‘Die Jockey,’ ‘Pyscho,’ ‘Odds Calais Summer Days’ & Hugh Jackman’s Other Japanese Lessons オージー英語が革命を逃した時代 日本人移民、オーストラリアの米産業成功の父となる オリンピック開会後、これから豪英スポーツ相対決 Japan and the ANZACs Chance encounter caused by Melbourne rain makes Indigenous Australian art Big in Japan – and Oz art’s greatest-ever solo success Unco/不器用 「やばいリンガル」Mate 豪で日本人アーティストのパイオニアだったSandiiはSunsetzから再びSunrise Powered by YARPP.
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「サイコ」、「騎士死ね！」と「オッズ、＜フランスの＞カレー夏の日々」が豪出身俳優ヒュー・ジャックマン氏が「ウルヴァリン」シリーズ映画撮影のためこの頃来日した際使えた日本語のヒントだった。「最高」、「大ジョッキー」と「お疲れ様です」を示すがジャックマン氏が使用した英語版ヒント・シートには日本語の発音を近づくために使った英語の言葉が上記の意味となる！ “Psycho,” “Die Jockey!” and “Odds Calais Summer Days” were some of the phrases given on a Japanese language cheat sheet Hollywood heartthrob Hugh Jackman used recently in Japan while here to film the latest installment of the Wolverine movies. Far from being anything sinister, though, Psycho was the description given for saiko, awesome, great, outstanding, the best, Die jockey! the rendition of dai jokki, a large beer glass, and Odds Calais Summer Days, which sounds something akin to a vacation on the French coast, but actually refers to otsukaresamadesu, a largely meaningless phrase used to encourage or praise…
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Kangaroos and koalas are among the symbols Japanese pop culture has, for many and various reasons, adopted at times (the latter with particular relish), and singer Misato Watanabe‘s choice of subject topic for her 1988 hit Sentimental Kangaroo proved a marsupial masterpiece. Watanabe made her debut in 1986 with My Revolution, a huge hit that earned her a gold prize at the 28th Annual Japan Record Awards and would be the biggest-selling song of her career. Watanabe, whose heyday stemmed from the late ’80s to early ’90s, continues performing regularly today. Sentimental Kangaroo was one of the attempts she made…
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of Australia’s disastrous foray into exporting cars to Japan. For a brief period from 1989 to 1992, fully imported Bluebird Aussie cars made in Australia went on sale in Japan. The Bluebird Aussie was apparently the result of Nissan Australia’s Matilda Project, which had aimed to make a solely Australian car for Australian conditions, but ended up being a modified bluebird. Australia was, at the time, at the peak of its powers in the enormously fickle Japanese market. Thousands of Japanese tourists were flocking Down Under and Australia was on the verge of overtaking…
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Aussie model Miranda Kerr is gaining an increasingly high profile in the lucrative Japanese market with her new ad for Lipton tea released on Tuesday. オーストラリア出身モデルミランダ・カー氏が日本での新作CMが21日付から上映されています。 Kerr, a Victoria’s Secret angel, brand ambassador for Japanese fashion label Samantha Thavasa and wife of Hollywood heartthrob Orlando Bloom, appears as a midsummer Santa in the commercial for a brand of Lipton tea. カー氏は、サマンサタバサ及び米国ヴィクトリアズ・シークレットのブランド大使などであり、ハリウッド俳優オーランド・ブルームの妻でもある。 Kerr’s unseasonal Santa ad is the second commercial she’s made for the British brewer’s Japanese outfit, following an earlier version where she was a waitress. 今回のリプトンCMがカー氏にとって日本で2回目であり、前回が去年上映されたウェートレス役をやった。 Related posts: 豪で発売するラム肉バーガーこそがオージー味であり、日本マクドナルドが日本消費者に不誠実 The Strine Why Atorkin: Natchrule Strine An Aussie Chrissie Aussie…
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Gus, the animated tale of a Neanderthal child with uncontrollable flatulence, is one of two Australian films selected to take part in the Japan Kinder Film Festival drawing to a close in suburban Tokyo this weekend. 豪作品ガスのコントロール出来ないネアンデルタール人子供の話アニメ『GUS おならで大発見！』と短編映画『ジュリアン』という２作品が１９日調布市グリーンホールにて20th Anniversary キンダー･フィルム･フェスティバルに上映される。 Accompanying Gus will be Julian, a short film that will feature Japanese voice actors performing live translations of non-Japanese films as they show. 『ジュリアン』の上映は、声優さんがその場でライブで日本語に吹き替える。 Japan Kinder Film Festival, the only international film festival for children in Japan, has one final session to run on Sunday, Aug. 19, from 1:30 p.m. at Green Hall, Chofu. Ticket prices range from 150 yen…
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Fancy guessing the most successful solo exhibition ever given by an Australian artist? Maybe, Sidney Nolan in New York? Tom Roberts in London, perhaps? What about Brett Whiteley in Paris? Nah. Here’s a hint: the artist was indigenous. Ah, well, in that case, it’d have to be Albert Namatjira, right? Nope. Wrong again. In fact, the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye holds the honor with wildly successful exhibitions in Tokyo and Osaka back in 2008. Over 120,000 visited the exhibtion, which featured over 200 works valued at more than $50 million. Crucial in the success of those exhibitions, as well as…
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東日本大震災・被災地である福島県飯舘村の中学生16人が西オーストラリア州ボイップ・ブルックの有機農業和牛牧場を訪問し、将来に対しての希望を再び沸かされた、とオーストラリア放送協会（ABC)が10日付報道した。 中学生たちが夏休みを使って真冬のオーストラリアを訪ねている。 昨春より東日本大震災・被災地支援活動「いっしょにがんばろう日本(Together with Japan)」を行っているオージー・ビーフ（MLA豪州食肉家畜生産者事業団）の協力の下、オーストラリアの肉牛飼育業がどのように営まれているかを見学するために、現地の牧場を訪問した。 「今回の訪問は、生徒たちに牛飼い業や地域の立ち直れに繋がればいいな」と同行しているオージー・ビーフ日本担当マネージャー近藤 美穂子氏が言った。 元記事（English) Japanese kids get a taste of farming down under （訪問先）Blackwood Valley Beef 大きな地図で見る Related posts: Shear Fluke! A Rare Aussie Cultural Hit in Japan ‘Single Men Only?’ – Early Japanese Migration to Oz 日本人の豪州への初期移民は「独身男性限定」？ Fleeing Kangas Give Japanese Drivers a Roo-ed Shock Oops! Austrian textbook error sparks online calls for Japanese to boycott Aussie Beef 我輩は日豪パイオニアである：日本の心を掴んだオージーぼっちゃん Jackaroo, Jillaroo/オージー版カウボーイ 日本語が大きく影響を与えた豪州言語 日本人コンビーが日豪融合ミュージックで豪を盛り上げる Dictionaries and Search Engines/辞書及び検索サイト 芸術が盛んな田園町飲屋屋上「偉大死んだ魚」 Powered by YARPP.
