
Month: September 2022


US Deep State: Biden and Harris in awful gaffes

Japan art and Taniguchi Kokyo (1864-1915)

Youth of Iran killed in the streets while Kishida smiles with Raisi

Morita Kako and Japan art: Only the shadow remains

Funeral of Shinzo Abe and 20,000 security: Kishida’s vanity and Moonies

Moldova protests against pro-West Maia Sandu: Russia and EU

Kawai Gyokudo and Japan art: Meiji artist

First female PM in Italy awaits after right-wing win

Japan art and Kikuchi Hobun (1862-1918)

Ebola outbreak in Uganda

Japan art and Kono Bairei (1844-1895)

Japan to open up the country on October 11

Iran mass protests after hijab death of Masha Amini: Ayatollah Montazeri

Takeuchi Seiho and Japan art: Fusion of ideas

Kishida meets Erdogan (occupies North Cyprus and North Syria): Armenia to West Papua

Japan art and Miki Suizan (1887-1957)

Japan PM in usual anti-Russia rhetoric: NATO and Soviet legacy!

Somalia kills over 100 al-Shabaab fighters

Japan art and Sakuichi Fukazawa: Sosaku Hanga

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan clashes: 100 dead

Japan art and Yanagisawa Kien (1703-1758)

Typhoon Nanmadol in Japan moves northwards

Armenia needs support (France): Shameful EU and Israel

Japanese classical literature and Murasaki Shikibu

Japan braces for Typhoon Nanmadol

Japan art and Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)

Armenian female soldier mutilated: Azerbaijan, EU, and Israel (Japan)

Taliban using US war chest to attack NRF

Japan art and the cultured art of Kubo Shunman

Japan in record trade deficit under Kishida (Russia)

Japan art and Keisai Eisen: Edo artist

Armenia and Azerbaijan clashes: Israel’s arms tipped the balance

Japan and 869 Covid deaths outside hospital under Kishida in August

Japan art and amazing animals by Mori Sosen

France and Greece: Turkey and NATO tensions

Tokyo tourism and Hama-Rikyu Gardens

Ethiopia and Tigray: AU mediation in the offing

Japanese Buddhist art: Insights of Kogan Gengei

Kishida tells Okinawa that US military base comes first

US and Pakistan: F-16 $450 million deal and flood appeals

Japan art and Suzuki Harunobu: Serenity

The Russia-India-China Trilateral after Ukraine: Will Beijing take the Lead?

Japan art and Yamamoto Hosui (1850-1906)

Mozambique beheadings by Islamists: Catholic nun killed

Japanese art and Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)

Japan and Moonies: LDP ties but no sackings by Kishida

ECB hike by 0.75 until the neutral zone

Japan art and Sengai Gibon: Buddhism and Meditating Frog

Somalia needs $1 billion to avoid a famine

Japan art and Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997)

Japan Yen hits 144 to Dollar: Kishida and inaction

Zimbabwe measles outbreak kills 700 children

Rinpa art and Japan: Buddhism, high culture, and nature

Tokyo tourism and spirituality: Nezu Shinto Shrine

Syria and over 300,000 deaths: Gulf, NATO, and Islamists

Contemporary Japanese artist: Magical village inspired by Sekka

Protest in Czechia: Energy prices, neutrality, and New Democracy

Japan art and Kano Masanobu (1434-1530)

Japan Yen hits 140 to Dollar: Kishida is a bystander

Indonesia and West Papua: Soldiers mutilate Papuans (Japan)

Japan art and Adachi Ginko: Meiji artist and prison

Kishida holds mock disaster: Deaths from Covid highest in August
