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August 26, 2018 leejayuk

Xi’s Grip Loosens Amid Trade War Policy Paralysis

August 25, 2018 leejayuk

French art of the le Nabi très Japonard

August 24, 2018 leejayuk

Kamakura and the historic Shokozan Tokei-ji Buddhist Temple: Protector of women

August 24, 2018 leejayuk

Chancellor Kurz of Austria received openly by CDU in Germany: Visegrad and Europe

August 23, 2018August 23, 2018 leejayuk

Tourist treat based on culture, history, and stunning landscapes on the doorstep of Tokyo

August 22, 2018 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese artist inspired by Alfred Sisley: Japanese eyes and cultural warning

August 21, 2018 leejayuk

Japan needs to listen to the people of Okinawa: U.S. base and Central Government threat

August 20, 2018 leejayuk

Japan’s Foreign Policy: China and Russia are essential because no warrior Benkei in sight

August 19, 2018 leejayuk

Russian Federation increases its military power on the Crimean Peninsula: S-400 surface-to-air missiles

August 18, 2018 leejayuk

Short poem – The kingfisher dies

August 18, 2018 leejayuk

Trump to enact more measures against Turkey for holding “our wonderful Christian pastor”

August 17, 2018 leejayuk

Sunni Islamists in Afghanistan butcher many in a mainly Shia part of Kabul: Islamophobia?

August 16, 2018 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese Art and Shintoism: The spirit of Sawako Utsumi and the Kano School

August 15, 2018 leejayuk

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: Current Crisis and Future Directions

August 14, 2018 leejayuk

Millions of Japanese Children face Poverty: Yet, Japan supports $1 Billion for International Children

August 13, 2018 leejayuk

Syria appeals to Western Nations to lift sanctions and help the nation to stabilize

August 12, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Kiyoo: Social and political convulsions but artistic continuity

August 11, 2018 leejayuk

Arab League and Palestinian cause on the ashes of killing each other and persecuting non-Arabs

August 10, 2018 leejayuk

US Tariffs and political pressure is tipping the Turkish lira over the edge in Turkey

August 9, 2018 leejayuk

Sunni Muslim led Saudi alliance kills many children on a bus in Yemen: Hypocrisy of OIC

August 7, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese culture and literature: A female tale that lasts the centuries

August 6, 2018 leejayuk

Returning Uighur Fighters and China’s National Security Dilemma

August 5, 2018 leejayuk

Fresh hope in South Sudan after agreement on power-sharing between Kiir and Machar

August 4, 2018August 4, 2018 leejayuk

Sharia Islamic law and female dress code: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the dark shadow

August 3, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art and the stunning artistic beauty of Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)

August 2, 2018 leejayuk

Japan continues to support the efforts of Iran to implement the nuclear deal: US and Japan

August 1, 2018 leejayuk

Japan and its military air-launched missiles upgrade : North Korea and China

July 31, 2018 leejayuk

Islamization and Bengali Muslim migration: Indigenous of Assam, the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and Rakhine

July 30, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and the window of Nagasaki in the Edo period: Chinese Artist Shen Quan (Nanpin)

July 29, 2018 leejayuk

Myanmar is hoping to attract more tourists from China, Japan, and South Korea: Eco-tourism

July 28, 2018July 28, 2018 leejayuk

Russia Makes Further Gains in Syria After Helsinki

July 27, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art and the exile of a holy Buddhist priest

July 26, 2018 leejayuk

Trump administration warns NATO Turkey to end its persecution of a Christian pastor

July 25, 2018July 25, 2018 leejayuk

Mexico in an endless nightmare of homicides: Who needs a civil war?

July 24, 2018 leejayuk

At least 94 dead from the brutal heat wave gripping Japan: Precautions for children

July 23, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art of the twelfth century: Annual rites and ceremonies

July 22, 2018 leejayuk

The heat wave is responsible for many deaths in Japan after highs in excess of 40 degree Celsius

July 21, 2018July 21, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the remaining shadow of Shintoism

July 20, 2018 leejayuk

Canada is Funding and Supporting Terrorism Front Groups with Taxpayers’ Money

July 19, 2018 leejayuk

High culture and the Japanese Tea Ceremony: Legacy of history and formal settings

July 18, 2018 leejayuk

Japan and EU trade deal is a sign that both entities oppose protectionism and Trump’s America First

July 17, 2018 leejayuk

Soga Shōhaku (1730-1781) and Japanese art: Richness of the Muromachi Period (1336-1573)

July 16, 2018July 16, 2018 leejayuk

President Putin of Russia is optimistic after meeting President Trump of America in Helsinki

July 15, 2018July 15, 2018 leejayuk

At least 217 die after floods and landslides hit Japan with the elderly especially suffering

July 14, 2018 leejayuk

President Xi Jinping of China and power concentration: the legacy of Deng Xiaoping is being threatened

July 13, 2018 leejayuk

President Erdogan of Turkey is sullying NATO: Endless arrests to power concentration

July 12, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the Bridge in the Rain: Van Gogh and Hiroshige

July 11, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and changing times: Yokohama-e and Western encroachment

July 10, 2018July 15, 2018 leejayuk

Japan death toll now reaches 156 after brutal floods and landslides kill many

July 10, 2018 leejayuk

China’s Intensifying Pressure Campaign against Taiwan

July 9, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Nichiren Buddhism in the soul of Rinpa art

July 8, 2018 leejayuk

At least 81 dead in Japan after floods and landslides wreak havoc in Western and Southwestern Japan

July 8, 2018July 8, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and the legacy of Tensho Shubun: Buddhism to the power of the Middle Kingdom

July 7, 2018 leejayuk

Japan floods and landslides have killed at least 50 people with Hiroshima and Ehime being hard hit

July 6, 2018 leejayuk

Execution of 7 Aum Shinrikyo members in the Tokyo Sarin attack is bringing Heisei Era to a close

July 5, 2018 leejayuk

India deemed the most dangerous for women according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation

July 4, 2018July 4, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhist poetry of the fourteenth century: Jakushitsu Genkō (1290-1367)

July 3, 2018 leejayuk

The poetry of Japan and Arakida Moritake (1473-1549): The natural flow of Shintoism

July 2, 2018 leejayuk

Myanmar and the anti-Buddhist media agenda: Aung San Suu Kyi and path of stability

July 1, 2018 leejayuk

Austria takes over the EU Council Presidency: Vienna and Visegrad need to protect the gates

July 1, 2018 leejayuk

Fugitive Bangladeshi Militants Bring Jamaat ul Mujahideen to India

June 30, 2018 leejayuk

Poet Saigyō (1118-1190) and Japanese Buddhism: the Light of the Buddha and Shintoism

June 29, 2018September 26, 2018 leejayuk

America deems Ireland to be on par with poorer nations in terms of allowing Trafficking

June 28, 2018 leejayuk

Japan football team plays in a style of ill repute: No guile or honor against Poland

June 27, 2018 leejayuk

Myanmar is deemed guilty for protecting various ethnic and religious groups in Rakhine

June 26, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese artist illuminates a classic Dutch art piece by Hendrick Avercamp

June 25, 2018October 12, 2018 leejayuk

Nations and charities should be heavily fined for encouraging migration to the EU: OIC and refugees

June 24, 2018 leejayuk

Sesshū Tōyō and Buddhist art: Is Huike paying respect to Bodhidharma?

June 23, 2018 leejayuk

Biblical Art by Alyse Radenovic: Judaism, the dream of the Pharaoh and the Jews of China

June 23, 2018 leejayuk

The Horrors of Honor Violence: Terrorism At Home

June 22, 2018December 7, 2018 leejayuk

Cyber Defense and Mossad: Israel and Libertad

June 21, 2018June 21, 2018 leejayuk

Visegrad nations and Austria call for a stronger border defense to defend the EU

June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese artist touch to Esaias van de Velde: Light of Japan on Dutch art of yesteryear

June 19, 2018 leejayuk

President Trump threatens further tariffs on China: Trade war in the offing

June 19, 2018 leejayuk

Refugees from Burundi and DRC face a bleak future in Tanzania: Factors are complex

June 18, 2018 leejayuk

Three people die after 6.1-Magnitude Earthquake hits Osaka

June 17, 2018 leejayuk

Katsukawa Shunshō (1726-1793) and art of Japan

June 16, 2018 leejayuk

Impact of art on Japan from the Middle Kingdom (China): Ma Yuan and Xia Gui

June 16, 2018 leejayuk

Islamic State Emboldened in Afghanistan

June 15, 2018 leejayuk

Eishōsai Chōki and art of Japan: The elegance of simplicity

June 15, 2018 leejayuk

France in slippery slope in Yemen: Macron is mulling a minesweeping operation in Hodeidah

June 14, 2018September 29, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and Kanzan Shimomura: Famous son of Wakayama and his early artistic life in Tokyo

June 14, 2018 leejayuk

Japan fears repercussions of US halting military exercises with South Korea: Glee in Russia

June 13, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art and Takeshiro Kanokogi: Influence of Jean-Paul Laurens and Emile-Rene Menard

June 13, 2018 leejayuk

Saudi-led Sunni Muslim alliance launches a major attack on a key port city in Yemen

June 12, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Matsumura Goshun: Impact of high culture, Yosa Buson, and the shadow of death

June 12, 2018 leejayuk

The US and North Korea in possible détente but the road ahead remains rocky: Japan sidelined

June 11, 2018 leejayuk

Karoshi and dying in Japan from overwork: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

June 11, 2018 leejayuk

President Trump is optimistic of a positive summit with the leader of North Korea

June 10, 2018 leejayuk

Japan poetry and Tendai Buddhism: The historian and poetic Buddhist monk Jien (1155-1225)

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