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Tag: Lee Jay Walker

May 15, 2020 leejayuk

Japanese art and Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1829): Buddhist monk and sublime art

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 leejayuk

US intention in Syria is a quagmire for Russia: Cyprus, Turkey, and Islamists

May 13, 2020 leejayuk

Japan requests people to refrain from travel to areas hit hard by Covid-19

May 13, 2020 leejayuk

Japanese art and Ishizaki Kōyō (1884-1947): The flow of Rinpa

May 12, 2020 leejayuk

Sunni Islamists kill babies and mourners in hospital and funeral attack in Afghanistan

May 12, 2020 leejayuk

PM Abe of Japan to fast track virus-related drugs in the fight against coronavirus

May 11, 2020 leejayuk

Iran accidentally kills at least 19 Iranian sailors in the Gulf of Oman

May 10, 2020 leejayuk

Japan to ease the Covid-19 state of emergency in the majority of prefectures

May 10, 2020 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the richness of Culture: Kanzan Shimomura (1873 to 1930)

May 9, 2020 leejayuk

Coronavirus infections engulf the Russian Federation but deaths remain low

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 leejayuk

Tanzania sends the army to border areas with Mozambique: Sunni Islamist insurgency

May 8, 2020 leejayuk

Covid-19 deaths in Sweden pass 3,000: Low deaths in Nordic and Visegrad nations

May 7, 2020 leejayuk

Tokyo in 5-day coronavirus downward trend: Far from the alleged meltdown!

May 6, 2020 leejayuk

UK and 30,000 Covid-19 deaths: V4 of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia with few deaths

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 leejayuk

ISIS upsurge during Ramadan in Iraq: Political inertia, geopolitics, and coronavirus

May 4, 2020 leejayuk

Israel sends humanitarian aid from Wuhan to Europe: Assisting against coronavirus

May 4, 2020November 6, 2021 leejayuk

Japanese art and Hishida Shunsō (1874-1911): Hope to the shadow of death

May 3, 2020 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the altered state of Yuzo Saeki in France

May 2, 2020May 2, 2020 leejayuk

Malaysia round-up of Bengalis over coronavirus: Malaysia to Myanmar and the UK legacy

May 1, 2020 leejayuk

Brazil coronavirus crisis is growing but Bolsonaro appears aloof and uncaring

April 29, 2020 leejayuk

United Kingdom coronavirus death toll reaches 26,000: Ineptitude of Boris Johnson

April 29, 2020 leejayuk

Japan media in “teetering over coronavirus” but the majority of prefectures have few deaths 

April 28, 2020 leejayuk

Japanese art and the Bleak Midwinter of the Buddhist Tree of Life

April 24, 2020 leejayuk

Medical workers in Osaka prefecture account for 9 percent of all coronavirus cases

April 21, 2020 leejayuk

Buddhist poetry of Japan and the last twilight before the shadow of time

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 leejayuk

World Bank provides an emergency loan to Myanmar to shore up its coronavirus preparations

April 20, 2020 leejayuk

Tokyo Governor and the nighttime coronavirus: Bars and restaurants can stay open until 8 pm

April 19, 2020 leejayuk

Japan coronavirus cases increase to 10,000: Aloofness of Abe and Koike

April 18, 2020 leejayuk

Deaths in France, Italy, Spain, and the UK is 75,000 compared to 450 people in the modern Asia Pacific

April 17, 2020 leejayuk

Ecuador death toll from coronavirus is horrendous in the environs of Guayaquil

April 17, 2020 leejayuk

Japan in full State of Emergency and the estranged coronavirus crisis

April 15, 2020 leejayuk

Japan and rising numbers of untraceable coronavirus cases: Lax for over two months

April 14, 2020 leejayuk

Austria attentively reopening from coronavirus under Chancellor Kurz

April 13, 2020 leejayuk

Japan elites learn little: State of emergency is spreading coronavirus by default

April 13, 2020 leejayuk

Turkey is facing a growing coronavirus crisis with roughly 1,200 dead

April 11, 2020 leejayuk

New York coronavirus deaths hit 7,000: A far cry from the arrogance of Cuomo and Blasio

April 10, 2020 leejayuk

Japan to assist companies in leaving China: Coronavirus economic convulsions

April 10, 2020 leejayuk

Regions in Japan request people in coronavirus hit areas to refrain from movement

April 9, 2020 leejayuk

Poetry and remembrance of Judy Doggett Walker: Virtue and hope crushed by this cold earth

April 9, 2020 leejayuk

PM Abe and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike in a clash over the State of Emergency

April 9, 2020 leejayuk

Increasing deaths from coronavirus in Indonesia including young children  

April 8, 2020 leejayuk

Abe and Koike need to come clean: 0.7 per 1 million deaths but the State of Emergency

April 7, 2020 leejayuk

France witnesses more than 10,000 deaths from coronavirus

April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 leejayuk

State of Emergency in Japan to include Osaka, Tokyo, and five more prefectures

April 6, 2020 leejayuk

Japan to declare a State of Emergency: Abe and Koike in coronavirus U-turn

April 6, 2020 leejayuk

Ecuador coronavirus crisis in Guayaquil brings fear in the path of death

April 5, 2020 leejayuk

Coronavirus increases in Tokyo with 70 percent having no obvious infection route

April 5, 2020April 5, 2020 leejayuk

Eternal poetry of Japan: In the heart that loves the blossoms, the wind is already blowing

April 3, 2020 leejayuk

Deadly Lassa fever kills over 170 people in Nigeria this year

April 2, 2020 leejayuk

Over 10,000 dead in Spain and six days running with over 800 deaths 

April 2, 2020 leejayuk

Coronavirus deaths over 30,000 in Europe: Lessons from developed Asia ignored

March 31, 2020 leejayuk

Japan to focus on Avigan, Futhan, and other drugs to fight coronavirus

March 30, 2020 leejayuk

Mount Fuji and contemporary Japanese art: The old world of Rinpa

March 30, 2020 leejayuk

Japan to widen entry ban on America, China, South Korea, and the majority of Europe

March 29, 2020 leejayuk

Clashes in China over coronavirus: Police in Jiangxi seek to keep out people from Hubei  

March 29, 2020 leejayuk

Group infection of 58 in Japan on the coattails of the Olympic postponement

March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 leejayuk

Another brutal day in Italy with more than 900 deaths in 24 hours

March 28, 2020 leejayuk

A contemporary artist from Japan and her love of Dutch landscape art

March 27, 2020 leejayuk

Abe fears for the Japan economy if Tokyo is forced to lockdown over coronavirus

March 27, 2020March 28, 2020 leejayuk

EU coronavirus fault lines over Italy’s demand for a “European recovery bond” 

March 26, 2020 leejayuk

Sikhs killed by Islamists in Afghanistan after a brutal terrorist attack against a holy place

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 leejayuk

Tokyo Governor and PM Abe to focus more on coronavirus after the Olympics postponed

March 25, 2020 leejayuk

Chad loses 92 soldiers after a major attack by Sunni Islamic terrorists 

March 25, 2020 leejayuk

Zen Buddhism and art of Japan inspired by the Middle Kingdom (China)

March 23, 2020 leejayuk

Tokyo Olympics all but over this summer after Canada pulls out and others to follow

March 23, 2020 leejayuk

Russia sends help against coronavirus during Italy’s hour of need: EU is where?

March 23, 2020 leejayuk

Japanese poetry and the recognition of death from tuberculosis

March 22, 2020 leejayuk

Italy and Spain now have over 6,000 deaths from coronavirus: Populists ignored

March 20, 2020 leejayuk

Tokyo Olympics should be postponed utters former medalist Kaori Yamaguchi

March 19, 2020 leejayuk

Italy overtakes China for coronavirus deaths while the virus is spreading further south

March 18, 2020 leejayuk

Tokyo Olympics: Abe and Olympic Committee imply capitalism over coronavirus crisis

March 16, 2020 leejayuk

Europe is nervous about the spread of the coronavirus: 2,100 dead in Italy

March 15, 2020March 16, 2020 leejayuk

Photography in old Japan and the distortion of reality

March 14, 2020 leejayuk

PM Abe of Japan seeks to reassure people about new measures to tackle coronavirus 

March 12, 2020 leejayuk

President Trump utters that the Tokyo Olympic Games would be better to be canceled

March 10, 2020 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the “Annual Rites and Ceremonies” to the suffering of the boy Emperor

March 9, 2020 leejayuk

Japan contraction before the coronavirus black swan equates to economic woes

March 8, 2020 leejayuk

Coronavirus crisis in Italy is increasing with deaths soaring

March 7, 2020 leejayuk

Japanese 8th-century poet enriched by the high culture of the Tang Dynasty

March 5, 2020 leejayuk

Italy takes further emergency steps after 107 confirmed deaths from coronavirus

March 4, 2020September 1, 2020 leejayuk

Classical poetry of Japan from bygone years: This fleeting world!

March 3, 2020 leejayuk

Northeast Asian powers of China, Japan, and South Korea face major economic coronavirus problems

March 1, 2020 leejayuk

School closures in Japan based on the Coronavirus crisis creates confusion 

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 leejayuk

Many Turkish soldiers killed in Syria: Turkey is exacerbating the crisis 

February 25, 2020 leejayuk

Poetry, religion, and high culture in sixteenth-century Japan

February 24, 2020 leejayuk

The global spread of Coronavirus brings fear to Iran, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and others

February 22, 2020 leejayuk

Niger and France kill approximately 120 Islamist terrorists in the Muslim mosaic of Niger

February 20, 2020 leejayuk

The influence of France on the Meiji born Japanese artist

February 19, 2020 leejayuk

Cyber attack fears in Japan ahead of the Tokyo Olympics according to the Bank of Japan 

February 18, 2020 leejayuk

Elitist politician Shinjiro Koizumi takes time off during the Coronavirus crisis in Japan

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