Developing Japan's Global Human Capital

The Austrade Japan Education Team has completed a comprehensive report of the push by the Japanese Government and employers to address the nation’s skills deficiencies and to globalise its workforce.

The challenge of building a globalised workforce: developing Japan’s human capital (PDF, 1.3MB)

IP Passport fact sheets

These fact sheets outline foreign Intellectual Property (IP) regimes and some of the issues and challenges which may be faced by Australian exporters.

The current fact sheets are available on the IP Australia website.

Australia and Japan: A New Economic Partnership in Asia

This report, written by Professor Peter Drysdale from the Australian National University and published by Austrade, has highlighted the potential for Australia to benefit from strong existing trade links and shared business culture with Japan to build partnerships with Japanese companies to win business in third markets throughout Asia.

English version (803KB)
Japanese version (996KB)

Bilateral agreements

Australia has social security agreements with several countries that address the issue of 'double super coverage' for employees sent to work overseas. To take advantage of these agreements, Australian employers sending employees overseas to work must apply to the Tax Office for a Certificate of coverage.

For more details, please visit the Australian Taxation Office website.