Month: July 2022
Japan art and Utagawa Kuniyoshi: Creme de la creme of ukiyo-e
Over 50 dead in floods and landslides in Iran
Japan art and Ito Shinsui: Landscapes and nature
Japan with highest Covid infections: Older people and aloof Kishida
Bank of Japan and wage problems: 1.8% decline via the Kishida disaster
Somalia hit by two terrorist attacks by al-Shabaab
Japan art and Toyohiro (1773-1828)
Japan art and birds: Sakai Hoitsu, Buddhism, and rinpa
DRC protests against UN turn deadly
European art influence on Fujishima Takeji
Contemporary Japanese artist: Landscapes and churches of England
Grim day for Myanmar: Execution of activists
Nationalist Kishida and tourism: Japan hits 20 percent of all daily Covid cases
Al-Shabaab terrorist incursion in Ethiopia
Japan art and Kawase Hasui: Snow and spirituality
Japan and Fukushima treated water into the sea despite concerns
Japanese art and design in Meiji Period: Tsuda Seifu
Kishida disaster: 85 percent of Covid cases to Yen declines by 25 percent
Tourists killed by NATO Turkey strikes in Iraq: Yazidis suffer
Suzuki Kiitsu and Edo Period art: Continuing to inspire
Deadly wildfires in Europe and North Africa: Path of death and destruction
Japan cross-party trip to Taiwan: Biden’s rhetoric
Japan art and Utagawa Kunimasa (1773-1810): Yakusha-e
Ethnic clashes in Sudan leave over 30 dead in Blue Nile state
Australia, Japan, NZ, and the Pacific Islands Forum: West Papua and persecution
Japan art and Nishimura Shigenaga (1697-1756)
Mysterious Child Hepatitis outbreak hits 1,000: Especially the UK
Covid-19 daily cases hit over 100,000 in Japan
Japanese Buddhist wall art steeped in history
Convulsions of sanctions on Russia: Euro and Yen tank against the Dollar
Tomioka Tessai and Japan art: Flow of Edo, Meiji, and Taisho
Japan Yen hits 24-year low: LDP, “no vote,” and crushing of democracy
Killer of Shinzo Abe and the Moonies link in his mind: Anti-communism
Japanese art and Edo artist Kitao Shigemasa
South Africa and another mass killing
Kishida wins Upper House but “no votes” higher than LDP: Apathy wins”
Japanese artist of Edo Period: Ronin to art
Japan Upper House election: Expect more static wages and increasing debt
Ghana and possible Marburg outbreak
Japan art and Kikuchi Yosai: Edo to early Meiji
Russia in sincere condolences to the family of Shinzo Abe
Japanese artist of the fifteenth century: Noami and China
DRC and many killed by Islamist ADF after health clinic set on fire
Former PM Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead after being shot
Japan art and Ikeda Koson: Solace of nature
Former PM Abe shot by ex-Japanese Maritime Self-Defense member
Former PM Abe shot and feared killed in Japan
Japan art and Goyo Hashiguchi: Females in Taisho era
Bank of Japan now holds 50 percent of government bonds: Capitalist?
G20 Foreign Ministers meet in Indonesia: West Papua, anyone (Japan)?
Japan art and Kamisaka Sekka: Rinpa art in a new light
Uzbekistan Karakalpakstan autonomy protests led to at least 18 deaths
Contemporary Japanese art: Buddhist, Dutch, and Japanese landscapes
Kishida and his anti-Russia stance are creating major energy headwinds
Sweden and possible political convulsions: NATO and the Kurds
Japan art and Josetsu: Buddhism and the impossible
Uzbekistan Karakalpakstan autonomy protests and quick u-turn
Japanese Zen Buddhist poetry, China, and Sesson Yubai (1290-1346)
South Sudan and deaths from starvation
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