Best overlap: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Melbourne is 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Tokyo.
Plan around 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Melbourne, which is 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Tokyo, to catch everyone during office hours. Tokyo is 1 hour behind Melbourne, but with 9 hours of common ground you can hold morning or afternoon meetings without anyone working odd hours. For part of the year the maths changes: Melbourne observes daylight saving, Tokyo does not, shifting the overlap by an hour.
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