Brock, fifth freedom rights allow airlines to fly onto a third country and sell seats on that sector. For example, if JQ flew SYD-KIX-ICN, it could sell tickets on the KIX-ICN leg as its own sector. The first post mentioned the fifth freedom rights restriction had been removed for Australian carriers, I'm not sure of the status of fifth freedom rights for Japanese carriers in Australia though, for sectors such as SYD-AKL, etc.
This is similar to what QF dow now through SIN (and until the recent changes BKK and HKG), do with AKL-LAX and had done for SFO-YVR in the past.
FYI, JQ previously already had tag on flights in Japan - the now defunct NGO-KIX tag on.
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