Australian–Japanese Cultural Connections (PDF, 0.2MB) – Kate Darian-Smith doi.Working at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo: The Experiences of Locally Engaged Staff (PDF, 0.1MB) – Kate Darian-Smith and David Lowe doi.Building Diplomacy: The Architecture of the Australian Embassy in Tokyo (PDF, 3.2MB) – Philip Goad doi.Creation, Destruction and Re-creation: The Australian Embassy in Tokyo (PDF, 0.2MB) – Alison Broinowski and Rachel Miller doi.Sir John Crawford and Japan, 1953–77 (PDF, 0.2MB) – David Lee doi.Early Australia–Japan Postwar Relations: The Role of the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, 1952–65 (PDF, 0.2MB) – David Walton doi.Ambassadors and Key Issues (PDF, 0.3MB) – David Lee and David Lowe doi.The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami of March 2011 (PDF, 0.6MB) – Murray McLean AO doi.The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia–Japan Relations (PDF, 0.2MB) – Kate Darian-Smith and David Lowe doi.Foreword (PDF, 0.1MB) – Jan Adams AO PSM.Australian Diplomatic Representation in Japan (PDF, 0.1MB).To copy a chapter DOI link, right-click (on a PC) or control+click (on a Mac) and then select ‘Copy link location’. If your web browser doesn't automatically open these files, please download a PDF reader application such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Jan Adams AO PSM, Secretary, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia’s Ambassador to Japan, November 2020–June 2022 I am very pleased to see this slice of Australian diplomatic history so well accounted for in this book.’ ‘With a similar vision for the Indo-Pacific region and a like-minded approach to the challenges facing us, Australia and Japan have become more intimate and more strategic as partners. Drawing on oral histories, memoirs, and archives, this volume sheds new light on the complexity of Australia’s diplomatic work in Japan, and the role of the embassy in driving high-level negotiations as well as fostering soft‑power influences. The embassy’s buildings, its gardens and grounds, and, above all, its occupants-from senior Australian diplomats to locally engaged staff-are the focus of this multidimensional study by former diplomats and expert observers of Australia’s engagement with Japan. This book shows how the Australian embassy in Tokyo, through its programs and people, has been central to these developments. Australia has supported Japan in times of need, including the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Cultural ties, from artists-in-residence to sister-city agreements, have flourished. This ‘special relationship’ has been characterised by the high volume of people moving between Australia and Japan for education, tourism, business, science and research. Over the years, interactions have deepened beyond mutual trade objectives to encompass economic, defence and strategic interests within the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. Nine countries across all endemic WHO regions have also been validated for achieving elimination.Relations between Australia and Japan have undergone both testing and celebrated times since 1952, when Australia’s ambassadorial representation in Tokyo commenced. During the same period, the number of people requiring surgery for trachomatous trichiasis (TT), the late blinding stage of trachoma, reduced from 7.6 million to 2.5 million – a 68% reduction. In June 2019, WHO announced a 91% global reduction in the number of people at risk of trachoma, from 1.5 billion in 2002 to 142.2 million today. There has been significant advancement towards elimination since the launch of VISION 2020. Trachoma, the world's leading infectious cause of blindness, is one of the priority diseases targeted by VISION 2020. VISION 2020 has three key objectives: 1) the control of diseases that affect eye health 2) the development of human resources and 3) the provision of appropriate technology and infrastructure. VISION 2020 aims to build comprehensive and sustainable eye health systems by integrating existing health services and ensuring high quality universal eye care. This global initiative was created to eliminate causes of avoidable blindness by the year 2020. On 18 February 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) launched VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. Women in Napak, Uganda, after trichiasis surgery at a camp set up by the local health department in collaboration with Sightsavers as part of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust Trachoma Initiative, with support from UK Aid.
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