Month: June 2022
Nationalist Kishida and NATO: Japan ignores NATO’s devastation of West and South Asia
Art of Japan and Natori Shunsen: Family tragedy and Kabuki
NATO set to expand to Scandinavia: Turkey and the Kurds
Nigeria and 2 Catholic priests killed: Biden’s indifference
Japanese art and the eclectic style of Hasegawa Settan
Kishida and G7 money-go-round: Tokyo warned of power shortages and debt
Art of Japan and Yanagisawa Kien: Spiritual Edo artist
Japan and G7 are silent while Indonesia plans to divide West Papua
Betrayal of Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar army, West, and media
Japan art and Kawamura Kiyoo: The early period
Mali armed forces bombed Al-Qaeda after 132 civilians were killed
Art of Japan and Ohara Koson: Birds, flowers, and plants
Nationalist PM Kishida rebuked in Okinawa (Ryukyu): Told to go home
Japan art and Ike no Taiga: China, Kyoto, and unseen if born today
German leader once said Aggressive-Imperialist NATO: Russia, US, and Japan
Afghanistan earthquake kills over 1,000 people
Japan art and Watanabe Shiko (1683-1755)
Colombia and the first Leftist leader Petro gained from Marquez
Japan art and Hashimoto Kansetsu: Impact of Chinese culture
Ethiopia massacre of over 200 Amhara people by suspected OLA
France Election: Macron shocked by Le Pen showing
Japan art and Shonen Suzuki: Kyoto artist
Russia should warn the UK: Iraq to Libya but no nation trained to kill their soldiers
Japan art and Tsuchiya Koitsu: Snow falling at night
Nigeria funeral for massacred Christians: Priest angry at Buhari
Japan art and Soami: Buddhism, China, and landscapes
Russia and Economic Conference attracts 70 nations: EU and G7 not attending
Somalia and severe drought: Children dying of malnutrition
Japan and rinpa art: Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858)
Iran Opens Ababil-2 Drone Factory in Tajikistan: Reasons and Implications
Japan scholar and poet Abe no Nakamaro (698-770) and China
Burkina Faso Islamist attack leaves at least 79 dead in Seytenga
Japan art and Kano Sanraku: China and Pre-Edo and early Edo Period
Arab and non-Arab clashes in Sudan leave over 100 dead in Darfur
PM Kishida of Japan and “new capitalism” aimed at the rich
Japan art and Nakabayashi Chikuto: Birds, China, and landscapes
Australia and Japan turn a blind eye: Indonesia oppresses West Papua
Japan art and Yamamoto Baiitsu: Influence of China
Japan nationalism and amnesia: Kishida and Kishi and anti-Northeast Asia
UN alarmed by the array of militias in DRC: ADF to Rwanda
Japanese Buddhist poetry and shadow of death: Henjo (816-890) and Sogi (1421-1502)
Nationalist Kishida sprouts US-revisionism: 38 million displaced since 9/11 wars
Buddhist art in Japan: Muromachi Period and Kao Ninga
Nigeria says Islamists behind brutal Christian church attack
Japan art and Ishizaki Koyo: Beauty of birds, freedom, and space
Anti-Russia Japan in its amnesia zone: Russia and Naval Symposium
America, EU, Japan, and G7 continue to abandon West Papua: Indonesia and exploitation
Japan art and Edo artist Totoya Hokkei
Nationalist Kishida of Japan insists tourists need guides, insurance, and face masks
Japan art and Yosa Buson: Lone seeker to single cuckoo
Afghanistan and Biden’s left behind war chest: National Resistance Front
Nigeria and brutal attack against Christian worshippers: Blood keeps flowing
Japan Buddhist art in eighth-century Nara: Emperor Shomu
Japan reaches a new low in births and a fresh high in deaths
Japan art and Buddhism: Kaiho Yusho (1533-1615)
Russia, Senegal, and AU: G7 and EU sanctions leading to food insecurity
Japan and internal LDP tensions over Abenomics: A cheap Japan
Japan art and Ikeda Koson: Edo artist
America seeks help from Saudi: The unscrupulous Democratic Party (Yemen)
Zen Buddhist art in Japan and Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769)
Biden supplies death in Ukraine to 107,000 overdose deaths and mass shootings in America
Photography in Japan: Meiji to present Tokyo lady via the trick of time
Nationalist Kishida seeks to increase military spending: China, Russia, and debt
ADF Islamists kill at least 15 Christians amid M23 tensions
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