
Month: December 2022


Japan to see out a miserable 2022 under Kishida

Classical poetry of Japan: This fleeting world!

Italy urges Iran to stop executing people for protesting

Japan art and Wada Sanzo: The workers

Japan is ending 2022 with the highest number of daily Covid deaths

Japan art and Hiratsuka Unichi: Grand old man of Sosaku Hanga

DRC and internal opposition to foreign armies

Russia warns about the militarization of Japan: Northeast Asia and America

Japan art and Kikuchi Keigetsu (1879-1955)

Military drills by China in response to America prioritizing Taiwan (Japan)

Japan art and the snowman

Japan and high daily deaths from Covid under Kishida: 55,000 dead

349 million people face food insecurity: EU, G7, and sanctions on Russia

Japan art and Tsukioka Kogyo (1869-1927)

DRC and M23 insurgents: UN report specifies the role of Rwanda (ADF and FDLR)

Japan art and Kawase Hasui: Tales of winter

Japan Covid deaths reach 54,000: Worst year by far under Kishida

Taliban bans female students from universities in Afghanistan

Japan art and Henmi Takashi

US war machine reaches $858 billion under Biden

Japan art and Tokuriki Tomikichiro: Buddhism, Shintoism, and Zen at war in China

State of Emergency in Peru: Crisis intensifies

Bank of Japan holds $4 trillion of outstanding government bonds: Military hike

Japan art and Bakufu Ohno

US airstrikes target al-Shabaab in Somalia

Japan art and Domoto Insho: Early Showa art

Japan police custody abuse: Diabetic male dies after being beaten and left naked

DRC floods kill at least 169 people

Japan art and Imoto Tekiho: Shrouded in mystery

Japan to refocus on nuclear power despite the legacy of Fukushima

Japan art and Yoshimoto Gesso: Kacho-ga and landscapes

State of Emergency in Peru: Mass protests in support of ousted Castillo

Japan and another monthly trade deficit under Kishida

Japan art: English working-class and Crumpsall workhouse in Manchester

Yemen and 11,000 children killed or injured: NATO and Gulf powers

Japanese art and fond memories of Korea: Hiyoshi Mamoru – colonialism

Iran executes people behind closed legal doors: Shameful Japan

Japan and military funding: LDP divisions and America

Japan art and Ito Sozan: Birds and ladies

Haiti cholera deaths reach 283: UN odious legacy

Japan art and Keishu Takeuchi (1861-1942)

South Sudan crisis: Refugees and massacres

Saudi Arabia and China underpin ties: Banner of non-interference (Japan)

Japan art and Kasamatsu Shiro: Early Showa era

Japanese management mainly opposes Kishida

Japan art and Eiichi Kotozuka: Sosaku Hanga

America and Australia want Japan to assist in containing China

Iran protests: Khatami and Badri Hosseini Khamenei

Japan art and Oda Kazuma: Tokyo in art

Japan and a decline of 2.6% in real wages under Kishida

Tosa Mitsuoki and Japan art: Edo Period art

El Salvador and Honduras intensify crackdowns on criminality

Kishida waffles about women: Japan 116 out of 146 WEF

Japan art and Goyo Hashiguchi (1880-1921)

DRC blames M23 Rwanda-backed forces for a new massacre

Japan art and Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)

Japan Covid deaths to reach 50,000 in next 48 hours
