Month: May 2022
Hanabusa Itcho and Japan art: A free spirit
Japan and South Korea in spat over islets
Russia consolidates to protect Russians and Russian speakers in the Donbas region
Japanese Buddhist nun Otagaki Rengetsu: Art, culture, and poetry
Burkina Faso massacre by suspected Islamists: Benin and Togo
Hiroshige and Japanese art: Birds, Buddhism, and nature
Pakistan and increasing political tensions
America’s inferiority complex with China: Biden admin incites at home and abroad
Japan art and Buddhism: Kano Motonobu (1476-1559)
Quad statement by America, India, and Japan vindicates India: Russia
Japan art and Buddhism: Snow, the Moon, and Cherry Blossoms by Hoitsu
NATO Turkey threatens fresh offensive against US-backed Kurds in Syria
Biden and Kishida (America and Japan): Warmongering over Taiwan and nationalism
Buddhist art in Japan: Nara and eighth-century art of Buddha
Biden and Kishida (America and Japan): Highest ratio and biggest holder of debts
Japan and Zen Buddhist art: Shunso Joshu
Anti-Russia Kishida: Only Japan in Asia walked out of APEC
Iran protests and murky America and Iran ties: Social media stifled
Tokyo tourism: Tokyo Roof Garden in Higashi Shinagawa
Libya tensions and the legacy of America and the UK: Failed states (EU and Japan)
Japanese art and the fading dawn of ukiyo-e
Anti-Russia Kishida and mega debt Japan pump more money into Ukraine
North Korea Covid-19 crisis might create minor solidarity with South Korea
Japan art and Buddhism: Desolate mountains and monks
Mali quits G5 Sahel anti-jihadist force: France intrigues?
Japan art and Otake Kokkan (1880-1945): Rebellious spirit
Anti-Russia Kishida hits another economic negative: Wholesale inflation high
Muslims stone a Christian female to death in Nigeria
Japan art and folklore: Samurai Taira no Tadamori
Japan nationalist Kishida is upsetting the junior Komeito partner
Prince Otsu and 7th century Japanese poetry: Death awaits
Biden’s America: 1.1 million Covid and overdose deaths but funds deaths in Ukraine
NATO expansion aimed at Russia never-ending: Warsaw Pact and Japan
Japanese art and the influence of Buddhism on Rinpa art
Russia Seeks to Keep Water Transit Between Caspian and Azov Seas Open Year Round
Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942) and the world of artistic dreams
US warmongering under Biden: Lend-Lease (China and Japan)
Japan and Nara: Buddhist art of the eighth century
Anti-Russia Kishida and oil: Increase from nations bombing Yemen
Colombia drug cartel reacts after Otoniel extradited to the US
Japan Zen Buddhist art and the Middle Kingdom (China)
Islamist terrorist attack kills 11 soldiers in Egypt
Iran and Ahmadreza Djalali faces the threat of execution
Art of Japan and Utagawa Toyokuni: The modest artist
Kenya and ethnic violence in the Marsabit region
Japan art and poetry: Yosa Buson and flow of China
Anti-Russia Kishida barred from Russia: Washington coattail Kishida
Islamists kill at least 30 Burundi soldiers in Somalia
Art of Japan and holy Buddhist warrior of the twelfth century
Nationalist Kishida of Japan turns back on South Korea and Yoon
Japan art and Watanabe Shiko: Kano and Rinpa art
Anti-Russia Kishida visits Vietnam: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Agent Orange by the US
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