
Month: December 2021


Tourism in Nagano and Jigokudani Monkey Park

Osaka clinic arsonist and murder suspect of 25 people dies

Buddhism and the Japanese calligrapher Sugawara Mitsushige: Bodhisattva Kannon

Afghan females protest for rights in Kabul: Warning shots heard

Japan art and influence of China: Sakaki Hyakusen and Buddhism

Lebanon and President Aoun hints at closer ties with Gulf Powers

China and Japan Defense Ministers hold frank talks on Tokyo’s request

Sudan tensions erupt again after protests in Khartoum

Japan poetry and a life blighted by ill-health: Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

Islamists kill many in Burkina Faso and Niger

Japan art and Hishida Shunsō: A life cut short

Russia condemns NATO and US: You expanded NATO to the east – Japan and South Korea

Japan fears rapid increase in Omicron Covid-19 variant

Japan art and Gyoshu Hayami (1894-1935)

TPLF armed forces to leave other regions of Ethiopia

Japan to provide more economic support to Afghanistan

Kurdish prisoner executed in Iran: Family told he is in his grave

Japanese art and Tanaka Hōji (1812-1885)

Super Typhoon Rai kills at least 100 people in the Philippines

Japan to reduce Covid-19 booster waiting time for the most vulnerable

Bataclan Trial Highlights France’s Ongoing Security Challenges

Osaka fire kills many in a suspected arson attack

Japan art and culture: Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615), Buddhism, and China

Imperfect return of PM Hamdok backed by Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the US

Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for booster shots sanctioned in Japan

Belarus opposition gets long prison sentences: Draconian leadership of Lukashenko

Japan art and the fusion of ideas: Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755)

Japan wants to improve evacuation missions after the Afghanistan debacle: US failure

Burkina Faso and Niger kill roughly 100 Islamist terrorists

Art of Japan and Ikeda Koson: Hinoki Cypresses

Japan art and rinpa: Buddhism and high culture

Russian Federation warns Ukraine not to threaten Donbas: NATO military weapons

Japan supports the attendance of Taiwan at WHO gathering: China and democracy

South Korea in Covid-19 surge: Vaccine immunity waning among the elderly

The Chinese artist Shen Quan and his stay in Edo Japan: Sublime nature

India and the Russian Federation to strengthen ties: Putin to meet Modi

Mali massacre of bus passengers by Islamists and UN compound hit

Japan art and Yanagisawa Kien: Edo artist influenced by Buddhism, China, and Confucianism

Burkina Faso and Islamists are heaping sorrow on 1.3 million internally displaced

Japan art and the individualism of Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)

Australia-China Tensions Simmer Amid Trade War and AUKUS
