AEDT vs JST — cities and working rhythm
Australia's east coast — Sydney (financial), Melbourne (corporate HQ / media), Brisbane (mining / education). Business hours 9 AM – 5 PM AET. Summer: AEDT (UTC+11); winter: AEST (UTC+10). Brisbane stays on AEST year-round — so Sydney and Brisbane are 1 h apart in summer, same in winter. Almost entirely opposite of European hours.
Japan — one of the few large economies that has no DST, so JST is JST year-round (UTC+9). Business hours 9 AM – 6 PM JST with strong presence-based culture (staying past 7 PM is common). Same offset as Korean Standard Time (KST).
Time gap: JST is 2.0 hours behind AEDT (standard-time offsets — daylight-saving flips shift this by an hour twice a year in most northern-hemisphere zones).