Tag: Lee Jay Walker
Japan art and Sakai Dōitsu (1845-1913): Mount Fuji
Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen kill many: Endless suffering
Japan art, China, and Zen Buddhism: Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769)
Colombia and 145 activists killed in 2021: Young indigenous activist killed this year
Saitama tourism and Buddhism: Delightful Chichibu
Tokyo artist during the Edo era: From fishmonger to esteemed art
Dutch winter landscapes based on Hendrick Avercamp by Japanese artist
Kazakhstan witnesses quick pull out of CSTO forces: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Japan art and Western influence in late Edo and early Meiji
Kazakhstan in “shoot to kill order” to protect National Security
Japan art and Buddhism – the mirror of life!
PM Hamdok resigns in Sudan: Internal crisis is growing
Art of Japan: Depictions of women in Edo Period
Buddhism and the Japanese calligrapher Sugawara Mitsushige: Bodhisattva Kannon
Japan art and influence of China: Sakaki Hyakusen and Buddhism
China and Japan Defense Ministers hold frank talks on Tokyo’s request
Sudan tensions erupt again after protests in Khartoum
Japan poetry and a life blighted by ill-health: Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)
Islamists kill many in Burkina Faso and Niger
Japan to provide more economic support to Afghanistan
Kurdish prisoner executed in Iran: Family told he is in his grave
Japanese art and Tanaka Hōji (1812-1885)
Japan art and culture: Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615), Buddhism, and China
Burkina Faso and Niger kill roughly 100 Islamist terrorists
Art of Japan and Ikeda Koson: Hinoki Cypresses
Japan art and rinpa: Buddhism and high culture
India and the Russian Federation to strengthen ties: Putin to meet Modi
Mali massacre of bus passengers by Islamists and UN compound hit
Japan art and the individualism of Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
Japan art and bijan-ga (beautiful ladies) of the Edo Period
Japan art and self-portrait while dying: Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650)
Japan art and the intriguing Hanabusa Itchō (1652-1724)
Sudan coup leaders reinstate PM Abdalla Hamdok: Tensions remain
Japan and record $490 billion stimulus package: Debt and right target?
United States drug overdose deaths reach 100,000 in 12 month period
Art of 12th century Japan: Mitsunaga and a glimpse into the ending of the Heian Period
India faces possible US sanctions over S-400 air defense systems from Russia
Art of Japan and Hishida Shunsō: Nature and Buddhism
Quad for Sudan to support stability: Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the US
Ethiopia crisis: TPLF and Oromo forces seek to expand
Art of Japan and the Middle Kingdom (China): Buddhism, Confucianism, and other ideas
Ethiopia crisis: Tigrayan forces claim to take a strategic town in Amhara
Art of Japan and exquisite birds by Yamamoto Kōitsu (1843-1905)
Sudan on tenterhooks: Mass protests against the military coup
Japan election looms but apathy rules the day!
Art of Japan and Hōitsu: A delightful triptych of nature by this Buddhist monk
Sudan in crisis after the military coup: PM Hamdok arrested
Japan art and continuity despite rapid political changes: Sakai Dōitsu (1845-1913)
China and Russia in joint navy patrol: the Sea of Japan, Western Pacific, and the East China Sea
Japanese Death Poem: The final moments of Prince Ōtsu (663-686)
Japanese Buddhist poetry from centuries ago
State of Emergency in Ecuador: “One enemy and that is drug trafficking”
Japanese Buddhist poetry: Saigyō, nature, and solitude
Myanmar needs a National Salvation government: Neither side can win, only more suffering!
Poland decries EU threat of economic blackmail: Endless Visegrad disrespect
North Korea and South Korea military modernization: Japan watching developments
Biafra, Communists in Indonesia, and East Timor: Shameful legacy of millions of deaths under Harold Wilson
Sudan needs international support to preserve the democratic path
MP Amess stabbed to death by Islamist inside a church in England: Apostates face death in Somalia
Japan election preparations: Opposition need apathetic non-voters to vote
Japanese art and the feeling of Shinto through the prism of nature
Sunni Islamists massacre Muslims in mosque attack in Niger
Russian Federation dismayed by PM Kishida of Japan: Kuril Islands
Buddhist poetry in Japan and the fallen Autumn leaf: Henjō (816-890) and Sōgi (1421-1502)
DRC and 26 million people facing food insecurity: WHO sex scandals to elites siphoning money
Russian Federation test-launches the Tsirkon hypersonic missile from a submarine
China and Taiwan need statecraft: America, Japan, and blocs are meddling
South Korea open to lifting sanctions on North Korea: US and peripheral Japan
Japan art and the Persimmon Tree: Sawako Utsumi and homage to Sakai Hōitsu
America reaches 700,000 Covid deaths: Keeps ticking under Biden despite vaccines
Japanese Buddhism and poetry under Emperor Shōmu in 8th century Nara
Prison riot in Ecuador kills at least 116 people: Mexican cartels and Ecuador gangs
DRC and another sex scandal involving the WHO: Exploitation during Ebola crisis
Japan LDP leadership battle: Fumio Kishida wins and vows a fairer society
Anti-Russia and anti-China politicians in Japan says Russia: AUKUS to Cybersecurity
Merkel bows out but the election in Germany means an estranged coalition awaits
North Korea and South Korea in a possible inter-Korean summit: Japan on sidelines
Japanese Buddhism and art: Hakuin Ekaku and Chinese philosophy
Japan welcomes non-Northeast Asian powers to the region: AUKUS and anti-China rhetoric
Judiciary in Venezuela accused of assisting state oppression by UN fact-finding Mission
Haiti migrants claim discrimination: Biden’s past disparage and unfairness
North Korea and South Korea test ballistic missiles: the US muted, Japan angry, and China diplomatic
Vietnam and Japan praise relations between both nation in Hanoi: Russian Federation
Japan art and Greek philosophy: Still life art and the scroll of time
Peru Maoist leader Guzmán of Shining Path dies: Rich educated Marxists
Meningitis outbreak in DRC with 50 percent fatality ratio: 129 known deaths
Japan LDP Leadership battle: Sanae Takaichi and nationalism
US Democrats decry non-inclusive Taliban regime while praising non-inclusive Qatar