Month: March 2022
The Increasing Danger Facing Women in Turkey
Japan art and exquisite art of Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755)
Legacy of Obama and the continuing audacity of death: Libya, Syria, and Yemen
Japan novelist and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: Tragic ending
OPEC, Russia, and Quad: Gulf powers and India ignore America, Japan, and the UK
Japan art and Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)
Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh nervous of fresh Azerbaijan probes
Japan poetry and Hideo Oguma: Socialist leanings and northern sadness
Iraq and NATO convulsions: Christians, LGBT, Yazidis, and failed state
Japan art and Goshun: Flow of Buddhism, China, Confucianism, and Kansai
Kishida in Hiroshima (irony) and anti-China and anti-Russia: West Papua to Yemen
Cameroon cholera outbreak with over 40 deaths
Japan art and Tomioka Tessai (1837-1924): Anti-China and modern nationalism
North Korea weapons program: Japan and its anti-China and anti-Russia stance
Japan novelist and Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933): Communist martyr
Islamists kill many in Somalia after several terrorist attacks
Russian Federation arc is growing: Ukraine and the south
Japan art and the Edo artist Katsukawa Shunzan
Islamists in Mozambique continue to wreak havoc: SADC and Rwanda
Japan novelist and Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909): Inspired by Russia
DRC ethnic massacre by CODECO: Children killed by machetes
Japan art and Yamamoto Baiitsu: Edo artist
Anti-Russia Kishida led to peace treaty talks being terminated by Russia
Japan novelist and Ichiyō Higuchi (1872-1896): Tragic life
China in mourning after tragic plane crash
Japan art and Toshikata Mizuno (1866-1908)
Anti-Russia Kishida fails to alter independent India: Japan and nuclear hypocrisy
Japan novelist and Miyamoto Yuriko (1899-1951): Communist, Feminist, and torture
Mali and France: Radio France and France 24 suspended but no EU moral ground
Russia notes one main concern in Northeast Asia: Japan under PM Kishida
Japan art and Mori Sosen (1747-1821): Delightful art of animals
Earthquake kills at least 3 people in Japan
Japan literature and Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916): The afterthought
The US undermines China and Venezuela but now seeks them to be anti-Russia
Islamists kill civilians in Burkina Faso: NATO’s legacy of death (Libya)
Japan art and Ohara Koson: Kacho-ga art of birds and nature
Kishida’s weak leadership: Covid, current account deficit, Yen decline, and Russia
Kanae Yamamoto and Japan art: Legacy of Russia
Ethiopia and more ethnic massacres reported
Japan art and Natori Shunsen: Tragedy of life
North Korea weapons program: New ICBM tested and Japan
Japan art and Hishida Shunsō: The ticking clock of life
2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: South Sanriku and remembrance
South Korea elects a new leader: America hopes Yoon will be a stooge like Kishida
Japan art and Kitano Tsunetomi: Impact of Osaka
Kishida and increasing debt in Japan: Russia and Ukraine
Tokyo art and Koshiro Onchi: Sosaku Hanga
Indonesia and extrajudicial killings in West Papua: Japan not so concerned
Japan art and Takahashi Shōtei: Beauty of snow
India reminds Japan that Asian independence exists: Quads and Russia
Somalia and severe drought amid an Islamist insurgency
Japan at and Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950): Lover of nature
Sport and Western PC authoritarianism: Russophobia is out of control
Japan art and Hokusai: Mount Fuji and the working-class
Shia Muslims killed inside a mosque in Pakistan
Japan art and Goyō Hashiguchi: Death bed art
ISIS Resurrection a Cause for Alarm
Japan art and Yamamura Kōka (Toyonari): Meiji to Showa
Russia: EU, Japan, G-7, and NATO jingoism
Saitama tourism: Heirinji Buddhist Temple in easy reach of Tokyo