- Premier Roger Cook travelling to Japan in his first official visit since forming Government earlier this year
- Mission will focus on shared decarbonisation efforts in the transition to clean energy
- Western Australia's LNG continues to play an important role in Japan's energy transition
- Japan and WA share long-term investment and trade partnership
Premier Roger Cook will travel to Japan tomorrow for high-level meetings with government and industry stakeholders in support of continued collaboration on the clean energy transition and to reinforce Western Australia's longstanding relationship with Japan.
This mission will be the first official trip Premier Cook has taken to Japan since being returned to Government earlier this year and comes ahead of his visit in September to World Expo 2025 Osaka, where the Western Australian Government has joined the Commonwealth Government as a Gold Partner at the Australian Pavillion.
Japan is a significant investor in the State, with decades long partnerships in the State's resources sector.
Japan is also WA's second largest trading partner with two way trade worth $29.8 billion in 2024. Since 1989, WA has shipped liquified natural gas to Japan, helping meet the energy needs of Japanese industry and households.
The role that WA's continuing LNG exports will play in Japan's energy transition will be an important discussion topic for the trip, as will opportunities for mutually beneficial co-operation across areas such as carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, ammonia and green iron.
In early October this year, Western Australia will host the 62nd Australia Japan Business Co-operation Committee (AJBCC) Annual Joint Business Conference with the theme: Navigating New Realities - Turbulence, Transition and Technology.
As stated by Premier Roger Cook:
"Being the first official visit to Japan since the election, this is a chance to reinforce how much we value our longstanding relationship and recommit to our joint priorities.
"Having face to face meetings with key Japanese Government and industry stakeholders affords us the opportunity to further strengthen the fantastic relationship WA and Japan have shared for so many years.
"Japan has been a valued customer of Western Australian energy for decades. I am optimistic this will continue as we support their energy transition with LNG and pursue next generation fuels like hydrogen and ammonia."
