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November 11, 2018 leejayuk

South Caucasus Eyes Becoming a Hub Along EU–China Transportation Route

November 10, 2018 leejayuk

Sporadic protests in Iran are aimed at corrupt theocratic and political elites

November 9, 2018November 9, 2018 leejayuk

Poetry and bleakness: Hell or heaven can’t defeat the futility of life

November 8, 2018 leejayuk

Zen Buddhism and Japanese Art: Taking Rinzai Buddhism to the rural poor

November 7, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and one-sided love: Frailty of life despite his boundless love of Paris

November 6, 2018 leejayuk

Violence Continues as Pakistani Islamists Protest Christian Woman’s “Blasphemy” Acquittal

November 5, 2018 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese artist and L. S. Lowry in Full Bloom by Sawako Utsumi

November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 leejayuk

Myanmar by-election and the entrenchment of democracy: Multiple parties and ethnic vitality

November 4, 2018July 16, 2020 leejayuk

Japanese art and the small window of Nagasaki: The Chinese artist Shen Quan (Nanpin)

November 4, 2018May 2, 2019 leejayuk

UK humanitarian aid projects in Yemen are being bombed by the UK backed bombing raids

November 3, 2018November 3, 2018 leejayuk

UK and Commonwealth betrayal in Pakistan: Remembering the Christian lady Asma Yaqoob

November 3, 2018 leejayuk

Language-Motivated Emigration of Russians Causes Shortage of Qualified Workers in Kazakhstan

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018 leejayuk

Buddhist monk Jien and a window into old Japan (1155-1225): Poetry and history

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 leejayuk

At least 42 Shia killed in Nigeria after a demonstration turned into a bloodbath

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 leejayuk

Buddhists, Hindus, and Tribals in Rakhine fear Bengali Muslim objectives in Myanmar

October 31, 2018October 31, 2018 leejayuk

The poetry of old Japan: Yamabe no Akahito and the devoutly Buddhist Emperor Shōmu

October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 leejayuk

Estrange policy of America towards Pakistan despite the utilization of terrorist groups

October 29, 2018October 29, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art, Goshun, and the influence of Buson: The artistic heaven on earth

October 28, 2018 leejayuk

Sanctions against Myanmar are “Nonsense” claims the Ambassador of Japan

October 28, 2018 leejayuk

Turkey Experts Worry Erdogan Might Use Al-Qaeda Against Kurds

October 27, 2018 leejayuk

Anti-Jewish white terrorist attack in America: 11 killed in Jewish Synagogue attack

October 27, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art and poetry: The last throes before the ghost of time

October 26, 2018 leejayuk

Prime Minister Abe of Japan meets President Xi of China: A wary eye remains

October 25, 2018 leejayuk

Another massacre of innocents in Yemen by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition

October 24, 2018 leejayuk

Buddhist art and the Japanese priest Mokuan Reien: The Middle Kingdom and Mu Qi

October 23, 2018 leejayuk

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia needs the chance to modernize society

October 22, 2018 leejayuk

Japan hopes America will not pull out of INF treaty with the Russian Federation

October 21, 2018 leejayuk

Myanmar seeks dialogue with the United Nations Special Envoy: Non-Muslim voices

October 20, 2018 leejayuk

Artist from Japan inspired by L.S. Lowry: Northern England in a Japanese context

October 19, 2018October 20, 2018 leejayuk

Khashoggi and press freedom in Turkey: Muslim Brotherhood narrative aimed at Saudi Arabia

October 18, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Kume Keiichirō: Stability despite the change

October 17, 2018 leejayuk

Myanmar should utilize its geopolitical importance: Positive ties with China, India, and Japan

October 16, 2018 leejayuk

Khashoggi, Muslim Brotherhood and opportune America, Turkey, and the UK: Land of political imprisonment

October 16, 2018 leejayuk

French Say “Non” to Islamist Performer at Bataclan

October 14, 2018October 20, 2019 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese artist and adorable landscape titled “Hakone in Natural Splendor”

October 13, 2018 leejayuk

Russia accuses Japan of “megaphone diplomacy” over military drills in contested waters

October 12, 2018 leejayuk

Nations and charities encouraging migration to the EU should be charged: OIC free ride

October 11, 2018 leejayuk

Japan and Mekong nations of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam to strengthen ties

October 10, 2018 leejayuk

Ito Shinsui opened up the “old mirror” of Edo and early Meiji art

October 10, 2018 leejayuk

The Uncertain Road Ahead for Macedonia

October 9, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the last Ukiyo-e knell of the Meiji Era: Western artists inspired

October 8, 2018 leejayuk

PM Shinzo Abe of Japan says that the United Kingdom would be welcome to join the TPP

October 7, 2018October 8, 2018 leejayuk

The Mass Media and the reciprocal Al-Qaeda: Afghanistan, Bosnia, Libya, Syria, and now Myanmar

October 6, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Buddhism in China and Japan: The shadow of Liang K’ai (1140-1210) on Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615)

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018 leejayuk

Myanmar and the Yazidi shadow in Rakhine: Buddhists, Mro, Bengali Hindus, and others fled ARSA Islamists

October 4, 2018 leejayuk

Sugawara Mitsushige and Buddhism: Bodhisattva Kannon and the Middle Kingdom

October 3, 2018 leejayuk

Japan to welcome State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar and discuss bilateral issues

October 3, 2018 leejayuk

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s nearly all-male Cabinet doesn’t look good for a modern society

October 2, 2018 leejayuk

Trump highlights the threat of tariffs that forced a U-turn by Japan unlike the weakness of Obama

October 2, 2018 leejayuk

Soga Shōhaku went against the grain in the eighteenth century: Art of the Muromachi Period

October 1, 2018 leejayuk

Earthquake and tsunami toll reaches 844 people in Indonesia: 34 Christian children at Bible camp die

October 1, 2018 leejayuk

Myanmar to allow visa-free visitors from Hong Kong and Macau following on from Japan and South Korea

September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 leejayuk

Yemen: Clashes Between Islamic State and AQAP Emblematic of Broader Competition

September 29, 2018 leejayuk

Brutal tsunami devastates Palu in Indonesia after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake

September 29, 2018 leejayuk

Kanzan Shimomura and art of Japan: The flows of Buddhist art, Kano, Rinpa, and the school of Tosa

September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 leejayuk

Myanmar is bullied by Western and Islamic states that seek to gloss over Yemen and other ill deeds

September 27, 2018September 27, 2018 leejayuk

Bilateral talks on tariffs between America and Japan agreed by Trump and Abe

September 26, 2018 leejayuk

Ireland is on par with poorer nations in the area of allowing Trafficking sites America

September 25, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese poet of bygone years: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

September 24, 2018 leejayuk

The richness of Japanese art during the warring times: Kano Eitoku (1543-1590)

September 23, 2018 leejayuk

NSC Meets Lobbyist Who Backed Syrian Jihadists

September 22, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Kano Michinobu (1730-1790)

September 21, 2018 leejayuk

President Trump of America and Prime Minister Abe of Japan to hold a summit next week in New York

September 20, 2018 leejayuk

PM Shinzo Abe of the LDP is re-elected to serve the third term as the president of the ruling party

September 19, 2018 leejayuk

The ethics of Confucius and the Japanese artist Tanomura Chikuden

September 18, 2018September 18, 2018 leejayuk

Australia: The Japanese Film Festival Unveils 2018 Program

September 18, 2018 leejayuk

US and Japan trade talks set back after fresh tariffs imposed on China: Beijing today, Tokyo tomorrow?

September 17, 2018 leejayuk

Contemporary Japan artist inspired by the Dutch master Hendrick Avercamp

September 16, 2018 leejayuk

Ex-Spy Slams Brennan’s ‘Freedom of Speech’ Hypocrisy

September 15, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan in a changing environment: Paris and Saburosuke Okada

September 14, 2018 leejayuk

America and the Philippines are bracing for potent storms that threaten many

September 13, 2018 leejayuk

The timeless Japanese anime classic: Princess Mononoke

September 12, 2018 leejayuk

Putin of Russia suggests the signing of a peace treaty with Abe of Japan

September 11, 2018 leejayuk

Terrorism in Burkina Faso is spreading to eastern regions: GSIM terrorism

September 10, 2018March 17, 2019 leejayuk

Art and Poetry: Typhoons and earthquakes take asunder to this cold earth

September 10, 2018 leejayuk

Death toll reaches 39 after the 6.7 Earthquake hit Hokkaido: 1 person still missing

September 9, 2018 leejayuk

Moscow Prepares Vostok 2018 as Sino-Russian Strategic Exercise

September 8, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese death toll reaches 23 in Hokkaido after the recent earthquake

September 7, 2018 leejayuk

Shia Muslims burn down Iran Consulate based on rebuking outside influence: Muqtada al-Sadr

September 6, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art and Confucianism: Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)

September 5, 2018 leejayuk

Sengai Gibon and Rinzai Buddhism: Artistic Outreach and Buddhist Contemplation

September 4, 2018 leejayuk

Typhoon Jebi kills at least 6 people in Japan with fears that the death toll will rise

September 3, 2018 leejayuk

Japan is awaiting Typhoon Jebi with apprehension after recent natural disasters

September 2, 2018 leejayuk

The UK abandons religious minorities: Sunni Islamists butcher in Syria but mainly Sunni Muslims let in

September 1, 2018 leejayuk

The Taliban Takes on Islamic State: Insurgents Vie for Control of Northern Afghanistan

August 31, 2018 leejayuk

Kano Sanraku (1559-1635) and Japanese art: Centralization and continuity

August 30, 2018 leejayuk

The reality of poverty for the Japanese artist Eisen and his independent nature

August 29, 2018 leejayuk

Power dynamics of art and the Tosa School: Richness of culture and Buddhism

August 28, 2018 leejayuk

OIC and Western powers are inciting against Myanmar in order to distract their evil crimes against Yemen

August 27, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the two paths of Buddhism and Shintoism: Faith in the snow without Abraham

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