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July 2, 2017 leejayuk

Tokyo Assembly Election to set Political Ripples: LDP Defeat to Increase Pressure on PM Abe

June 22, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Changing Times through the Eyes of Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912)

June 11, 2017 leejayuk

Adorable Garden of Chinzan-so in Tokyo fused with Religious and Philosophical Dimensions

June 8, 2017June 14, 2017 leejayuk

Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) and Japanese Poetry: In the Shadow of Death

June 1, 2017 leejayuk

Putin says Kurile is an Ideal Place to Check the United States in the Far East: Independent Japan?

May 29, 2017 leejayuk

America and Japan to hold “Two Plus Two” talks aimed at strategies towards North Korea

May 19, 2017 leejayuk

Japan Buddhist Poet of the Rinzai School and Impact of China: Sesson Yūbai (1290-1346)

May 12, 2017 leejayuk

Adorable Japanese Art by Eishōsai Chōki: Radiant Beauty of Females

May 10, 2017May 11, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese High Culture and Tea Ceremony: Historical to Formal Settings

May 9, 2017 leejayuk

The Art of Japan and the Exile of a Buddhist Holy Man

May 6, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Artist Shiba Kōkan (1747-1818) and Impact of Dutch and European Art

May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 leejayuk

Japan and Immigration Card: European Wasteland and Indigenous Marginalization of the Working Class

May 2, 2017May 2, 2017 leejayuk

Tensho Shubun and Japanese Art: High Culture of China and Zen Buddhist Priest

April 30, 2017 leejayuk

Japan and Military Normalization to Enable Enhanced Regional Relations

April 29, 2017 leejayuk

Ninth Century Japanese Art: Kose Kanaoka and the Respectful Mirage

April 27, 2017 leejayuk

Russian Federation and Japan seek all Parties to Defuse Tensions on the Korean Peninsula

April 25, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Minister in Shameful Comment about Tohoku: Tsunami, Nuclear Crisis, and Tokyo Centric

April 20, 2017 leejayuk

The United States now Ushers a Conciliatory Tone towards North Korea: Regional Pressure?

April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 leejayuk

America, China, and Russia should work together on the issue of North Korea

April 17, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Folklore and the Shinto Faith: Ghost Stories and Art

April 11, 2017 leejayuk

China, Japan, and South Korea should unite to contain America’s approach to North Korea

April 8, 2017 leejayuk

Japan Art and Sekka: Artistic Tranquillity despite Political Changes and Upheavals

March 30, 2017 leejayuk

China Needs to Re-evaluate the Independence of Taiwan: America and Japan

March 27, 2017 leejayuk

Tochigi Ski Resort hit by Tragedy: Children Perish in Nasu after Avalanche in Japan

March 25, 2017 leejayuk

Japan pulls the Self-Defense Forces out of South Sudan under a Self-Created Cloud

March 25, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Folklore and Samurai Tadamori: Power Concentration and Taira Clan

March 19, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhist Poetry by Jakushitsu (1290-1367): Why pursue words, when one truly seeks silence?

March 16, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Dutch Art: Altered Reality of Hiroshige by Van Gogh

March 15, 2017 leejayuk

Poetry of Old Japan: Yamabe no Akahito

March 13, 2017 leejayuk

PM Abe of Japan Grovels to the anti-Human Rights nation of Saudi Arabia

March 11, 2017 leejayuk

Remembering the March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011: Brave Fire Brigade Heroes of Otsuchi to Fleeing Embassies

March 10, 2017 leejayuk

Trump’s America Focused on Helping US Workers: Japan Urged to Change at WTO

March 5, 2017 leejayuk

Japan and Political Stability: Rule Change to Enable Prime Minister Abe to Stay in Power for 9 Years

March 4, 2017 leejayuk

Hakone Tourism: Buddhism, Shintoism, Hakone Jinja, Yamabushi, and the historical Treasure Museum

February 27, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Edgar Degas: Fusions of Ideas

February 20, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Yumeji Takehisa: No International Salvation in Death

February 18, 2017 leejayuk

Softbank, Saudi Arabia, and Mega Fund: Persecution of Women to Buddhism

February 12, 2017 leejayuk

Calligrapher Sugawara Mitsushige and Bodhisattva Kannon: Buddhism and Culture

February 10, 2017 leejayuk

America and Japan: Trump should be aware of “Abe bearing Financial Incentives”

February 8, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Influence of Confucius: Tanomura Chikuden

January 27, 2017 leejayuk

Trump and Abe seek a Bilateral Trade Agreement between America and Japan to Replace TPP

January 25, 2017 leejayuk

Ike No Taiga and Art of Japan: Influence of the Middle Kingdom and Humble Background

January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Folklore and Light of Buddhism: Care despite the Onset of Abandonment

January 14, 2017 leejayuk

Tanomura Chikuden and Art of Japan: Confucius and Art

December 20, 2016 leejayuk

Tourism in Japan and Stunning Fukushima: Ura-Bandai, Abukuma Cave, and Koriyama

December 14, 2016 leejayuk

Russia needs Caution towards Japan based on the American Question: Analogy of China

December 9, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Folklore and Representations of Kintaro in Art and Culture

November 28, 2016 leejayuk

Serious Cyber Attack Allegedly hits the Japanese Ministry of Defense: Government now Denies

November 24, 2016 leejayuk

Art, Christianity, Culture, and Liberalization under Famous Japanese Warlord 

November 22, 2016 leejayuk

Japan says TPP is “Meaningless” without America after Trump Announcement

November 20, 2016 leejayuk

Japan needs to Re-Align with China: Legacy of Buddhism, Confucianism, History, and Taoism

November 18, 2016 leejayuk

PM Abe and the Immigration Card: European Wasteland and Internal Poverty Awaits

November 18, 2016 leejayuk

PM Shinzo Abe of Japan says “Great Confidence” after meeting President-elect Donald Trump

November 10, 2016November 10, 2016 leejayuk

Japan and the United States: Shinzo Abe Scheduled to meet President-elect Donald Trump

November 9, 2016 leejayuk

Shinzo Abe of Japan Congratulates Donald Trump: Japan and Russian Federation Relations

November 7, 2016April 14, 2017 leejayuk

Yukio Mishima: The Last Great Japanese Author and Ultimate Ubermensch

November 5, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka, Suspected of Assisting ISIS, needs to be Charged in Iraq

November 4, 2016 leejayuk

Western Style Portraiture by the Japanese Artist Yasui Sotaro

November 1, 2016March 31, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Artist and Nichiren Buddhism: Exile in the Snow on Sado Island

October 30, 2016 leejayuk

Karoshi and Dying from Overwork in Japan: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

October 26, 2016 leejayuk

Philippines and Japan: Duterte seeks a Reduced US Role in Asia with Russia on the Horizon

October 25, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Green Tea Ceremony and High Culture: Culture, History, and Formal Settings

October 25, 2016 leejayuk

Military Normalization in Japan to Enable Enhanced Regional Relations

October 23, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Traditional Dress of Females

October 8, 2016 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Rinzai Buddhism: Buddhist Contemplation of Sengai Gibon to Artistic Outreach

October 7, 2016 leejayuk

Taiwan Seeks Maritime Cooperation with Japan: President Tsai Ing-wen

September 30, 2016 leejayuk

UK Foreign Corporate Takeover and the Slippery Road of Corporate Japan

September 26, 2016 leejayuk

Japan and Migration: Policy Members must note Europe, Cultural Norms, Islamism, and Tensions

September 9, 2016 leejayuk

North Korea Suspected of Possible Nuclear Test: Japan needs a Fresh Approach

September 3, 2016 leejayuk

Russian Federation and Japan to Further Economic Cooperation: Territorial Dispute Secondary to Trust

August 25, 2016 leejayuk

Book for Children: Mavis, the Japanese Boy called Ryo and the Magical World of Shimabara

August 9, 2016 leejayuk

Emperor Akihito of Japan needs Similar Dignity in Possible Abdication

August 8, 2016 leejayuk

Ghost of Koheiji and Konishi Hirosada: Japanese Art and Folklore

August 5, 2016 leejayuk

Child Abuse Cases in Japan Jumps to over 100,000: Social Ills and Signs of Growing Awareness

August 3, 2016 leejayuk

Japan and North Korea: Ballistic Missile Enters Japanese Waters and Surreal Reality

July 31, 2016 leejayuk

First Female Elected Governor of Tokyo: Yuriko Koike Promises to Reinvigorate Tokyo

July 30, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Tourism and History: Negoro-ji and Buddhism in Stunning Wakayama

July 27, 2016 leejayuk

Japan in ¥28 Trillion Economic Package and a Ridiculously Small Increase in Hourly Rate for the Poor

July 25, 2016July 26, 2016 leejayuk

Male in his 20s Kills at Least 15 People in a Disabled Residential Care Center in Japan

July 21, 2016 leejayuk

United Kingdom should stop Softbank from Buying ARM: Mass Debt and National Interests

July 16, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhism, Kukai (774-835), and Koyasan: A lone cloud has no place to settle

July 11, 2016 leejayuk

Apathy of Japan Election: Abe Claims Mandate on Low Turnout

July 6, 2016 leejayuk

Middle Kingdom (China) and Artistic Impact on Japan: Xia Gui and Ma Yuan

July 3, 2016 leejayuk

Sunni Islamists Target non-Muslims for Slaughter in Bangladesh: Many Japanese Killed

June 30, 2016 leejayuk

Zen Buddhist Priest and Japanese Art: Tensho Shubun and Influence of China

June 27, 2016 leejayuk

Japan in Shock about the United Kingdom Leaving the European Union: Urgent Meeting Held

June 19, 2016 leejayuk

Flourishing of Art and Culture under Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga in the 16th Century

June 7, 2016 leejayuk

Concerns of Russian Federation: America, China, Japan, Naval Issues and the South China Sea

June 5, 2016June 5, 2016 leejayuk

China Dictates Terms for Sino-Japanese Relations During First Japanese Foreign Minister Visit in Four Years

June 3, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Animation: Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai

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