
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
