Month: June 2020
Tokyo Covid-19 cases increase to 60 and once more 50 percent related to nightlife
Over 500,000 deaths from Covid-19: Americas and Southeast Asia under strain
Japanese tenth-century poetry: Mibu no Tadamine and the Middle Kingdom (China)
Anti-US media bias: Discrimination in China, Cuba, Indonesia, Nigeria, Saudi, and Turkey
Mexico Covid-19 deaths surpass 25,000 and no sign of abating
Tokyo covid-19 cases increase: Yuriko Koike distracted and the heatstroke angle
Should BLM change its name or is Arab slavery and ethnic massacres in Africa fine?
Japan tourism and Nara: The legacy of Buddhism and high culture thrives
K-Pop, BLM, and amnesia: Commercial savvy (Tibet, Xinjiang, and West Papua)
Brazil reaches 50,000 Covid-19 deaths: Americas overview
Art of Japan and poetry: Above the withered fields a bat flits
Tokyo tourism and Akihabara: Anime, electronic goods, otaku, and maid cafe
Russian Military Seeking to Counter Growing Chinese Role in Central Asia
Tokyo lifts Covid-19 business restrictions and people can travel freely in Japan
Peru Covid-19 crisis is mounting despite government measures
Japan art and Goshun (1752-1811): The richness of Chinese and Japanese high culture
India loses 20 soldiers in a border clash with belligerent China: Covid-19 convulsions
North Korea and South Korea tensions ratchet up: Moon Jae-in is in a spin
Many soldiers killed in Mali after Sunni Islamists attack an armed convoy
Tokyo Governor Koike is enabling the sex entertainment area to threaten society with Covid-19
South Africa and woman found hanging from a tree and other murders
Japanese art and rinpa: Buddhism, Maple trees, and a lovely stone lantern
Brazil covid-19 deaths reach just below 43,000 with high daily infections
Tokyo Governor Koike to run for re-election while people wait for 100,000 yen support
UNHCR requests support for the Sahel based on ethnic and religious violence
Tokyo is moving closer to full economic and social normality from Covid-19
Russian Navy Prioritizes Tsirkon Hypersonic Missiles
Japan art and Morimura Hōgi (1805-1862): High culture and continuity
Ethnic clashes, Christian pogroms, and Islamist terrorist attacks in Nigeria
Japan and likely increased heatstroke deaths: Facemasks, hot summer, and Covid-19
Hungary praises cooperation in Central Europe: Visegrad and reaching out
Japan is pragmatic about Hong Kong: China versus Australia, Canada, US, and the UK
Afghan refugees burnt alive by Iran police: “Give me some water, I am burning”
Japanese death poems: The final flicker of Prince Ōtsu (663-686)
Another ethnic massacre in Mali and political tensions
The UK reaches 40,000 official Coronavirus death: 48,000 on death certificates
Red Light Area again responsible for 7 out of 12 new Covid-19 cases in Tokyo
Kenyan police kill 26 in Covid-19 curfew but no international outcry
Coronavirus crisis is increasing in Pakistan but the leader opens up tourism
Japanese Buddhist art and Kaō: Fourteenth-century art and the Middle Kingdom
1.5 million Venezuelan refugees face severe hardship: Exacerbated by covid-19
Japan reports only 37 new Covid-19 cases with most in Tokyo and Fukuoka
Fresh Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Japanese art and Suzuki Reitan (1792-1817): Early death before full bloom
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