Japan and Australia are natural partners.

The trade between the two countries is essentially complementary. Australia supplies primary products such as natural gas, coal and a wide variety of foodstuffs to Japan, while Japan reciprocates with hi-tech manufactured goods. If Japan has too little room for its population, Australia has too much. While the Japanese countryside is concreted and dammed to the hills, with box-like houses everywhere you look, the Australian landscape is largely uninhabited, unspoiled and undomesticated. If Japanese tourists want to "go bush," the colloquial Australian equivalent of "getting away from it all," then Down Under is the place for them.

But, when it comes to Japanese-Australian relations, there is another meaning of the term "go Bush" -- this one with a capital B.