
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
