Month: February 2023
Births in Japan drop below 800,000 from 1.5 million in the 1980s
Japan art and Eiichi Kotozuka: Kyoto, Shinto, and snow
Islamists kill over 70 Burkina Faso soldiers
Japan and G7 nations fail to bully G20 nations: 349 million face food insecurity (India)
Japan art and Aoyama Masaharu: Birds by a son of Saitama
South Sudan calls for peace and asks refugees to return home
Japan art and Koichi Okumura: Snow and Mount Fuji
Japan and anti-Russia stance: France and Germany admit Minsk bought time
Taliban and new investment consortium: Iran, Pakistan, and Russia
Japan art and Hagiwara Hideo: 1940s seascapes
Japan and South Korea in another spat over Takeshima / Dokdo
Japan art and Kazue Yamagishi
Debt-laden Japan finds billions for Ukraine: People struggle in Japan
Haiti crisis: Caribbean leaders oppose sending troops (UN scandals to Biden)
Japan art and Yoshimune Arai: The moon
Burkina Faso and France mark the end of French military operations (Russia)
Japan art and Terauchi Fukutaro: Buddhist Pagoda and Shinto
Earthquake deaths approach 47,000: Searches in Turkey will end soon
Japan local assemblies and 40% with one to zero female members
Japan art and Imamura Shikō (1880-1916)
Japan Cabinet alters Kishida’s child support pledge: Poor fiscal health
Japan art and castles in the snow (Nijo Castle)
South Africa, Russia, and China naval exercises: EU and G7 diktats
Earthquake deaths in Syria and Turkey pass 41,000
Japan art and rinpa: Nakamura Hochu and Korin Gafu
Marburg virus kills 9 in Equatorial Guinea
Japan art and Nikko: Nature and spirituality
Somaliland clashes result in at least 57 deaths