
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
