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
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