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Tag: Lee Jay Walker

March 13, 2022October 31, 2023 leejayuk

Ethiopia and more ethnic massacres reported

March 10, 2022 leejayuk

2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: South Sanriku and remembrance 

March 5, 2022March 5, 2022 leejayuk

Sport and Western PC authoritarianism: Russophobia is out of control

March 1, 2022October 28, 2023 leejayuk

Saitama tourism: Heirinji Buddhist Temple in easy reach of Tokyo 

February 23, 2022 leejayuk

Turkey switching on NATO tap from Islamist tap: Russia and Ukraine

February 19, 2022February 19, 2022 leejayuk

Japan art and Yokoyama Taikan: A mirror into the brutal world of history 

February 15, 2022 leejayuk

Germany remains more nuanced toward Ukraine: Russia and NATO

February 13, 2022 leejayuk

Japan art by Sakai Hōitsu and Buddhism

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 leejayuk

Rinpa art in Japan and its link to Nichiren Buddhism 

February 7, 2022 leejayuk

Art of Japan: Fading hope and the reality of life!

February 5, 2022February 5, 2022 leejayuk

Female warrior in 12th century Japan: Tomoe Gozen and art 

February 4, 2022 leejayuk

Japanese Poetry of Heian Period: Mibu no Tadamine and China

February 2, 2022 leejayuk

Japan tourism and Shintoism: Samukawa Shinto Shrine in Kanagawa

January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 leejayuk

Japan art and Takeshiro Kanokogi: A world turned upside down

January 30, 2022January 30, 2022 leejayuk

UN says 2,000 child soldiers killed in Yemen: Houthis and the Middle East 

January 26, 2022 leejayuk

Japan art and the early life of Kanzan Shimomura

January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 leejayuk

Tokyo in the snow and the calming influence of Shintoism: A lament! 

January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 leejayuk

Japan art: Adorable mixture of trees and the lone Buddhist monk

January 22, 2022January 22, 2022 leejayuk

Japan art and Sakai Dōitsu (1845-1913): Mount Fuji

January 22, 2022January 22, 2022 leejayuk

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen kill many: Endless suffering 

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 leejayuk

Japan art, China, and Zen Buddhism: Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769) 

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 leejayuk

Colombia and 145 activists killed in 2021: Young indigenous activist killed this year 

January 18, 2022 leejayuk

Saitama tourism and Buddhism: Delightful Chichibu

January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 leejayuk

Tokyo artist during the  Edo era: From fishmonger to esteemed art 

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022 leejayuk

Dutch winter landscapes based on Hendrick Avercamp by Japanese artist 

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022 leejayuk

Kazakhstan witnesses quick pull out of CSTO forces: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan 

January 12, 2022 leejayuk

Japan art and Western influence in late Edo and early Meiji

January 8, 2022January 8, 2022 leejayuk

Kazakhstan in “shoot to kill order” to protect National Security

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 leejayuk

Japan art and Buddhism – the mirror of life! 

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 leejayuk

PM Hamdok resigns in Sudan: Internal crisis is growing 

January 2, 2022January 2, 2022 leejayuk

Art of Japan: Depictions of women in Edo Period

December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 leejayuk

Buddhism and the Japanese calligrapher Sugawara Mitsushige: Bodhisattva Kannon

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and influence of China: Sakaki Hyakusen and Buddhism

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 leejayuk

China and Japan Defense Ministers hold frank talks on Tokyo’s request

December 27, 2021 leejayuk

Sudan tensions erupt again after protests in Khartoum

December 26, 2021 leejayuk

Japan poetry and a life blighted by ill-health: Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

December 26, 2021December 26, 2021 leejayuk

Islamists kill many in Burkina Faso and Niger

December 21, 2021 leejayuk

Japan to provide more economic support to Afghanistan

December 20, 2021 leejayuk

Kurdish prisoner executed in Iran: Family told he is in his grave

December 20, 2021 leejayuk

Japanese art and Tanaka Hōji (1812-1885)

December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and culture: Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615), Buddhism, and China 

December 13, 2021 leejayuk

Burkina Faso and Niger kill roughly 100 Islamist terrorists

December 12, 2021June 3, 2022 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Ikeda Koson: Hinoki Cypresses

December 11, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and rinpa: Buddhism and high culture

December 6, 2021 leejayuk

India and the Russian Federation to strengthen ties: Putin to meet Modi

December 6, 2021 leejayuk

Mali massacre of bus passengers by Islamists and UN compound hit

December 2, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and the individualism of Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)

November 29, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and bijan-ga (beautiful ladies) of the Edo Period

November 25, 2021November 25, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and self-portrait while dying: Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650)

November 22, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and the intriguing Hanabusa Itchō (1652-1724)

November 22, 2021 leejayuk

Sudan coup leaders reinstate PM Abdalla Hamdok: Tensions remain

November 19, 2021 leejayuk

Japan and record $490 billion stimulus package: Debt and right target?

November 18, 2021 leejayuk

United States drug overdose deaths reach 100,000 in 12 month period

November 15, 2021 leejayuk

Art of 12th century Japan: Mitsunaga and a glimpse into the ending of the Heian Period

November 14, 2021 leejayuk

India faces possible US sanctions over S-400 air defense systems from Russia

November 6, 2021November 6, 2021 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Hishida Shunsō: Nature and Buddhism 

November 4, 2021 leejayuk

Quad for Sudan to support stability: Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the US

November 3, 2021 leejayuk

Ethiopia crisis: TPLF and Oromo forces seek to expand

November 3, 2021 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the Middle Kingdom (China): Buddhism, Confucianism, and other ideas

October 31, 2021November 3, 2021 leejayuk

Ethiopia crisis: Tigrayan forces claim to take a strategic town in Amhara 

October 30, 2021 leejayuk

Art of Japan and exquisite birds by Yamamoto Kōitsu (1843-1905)

October 30, 2021 leejayuk

Sudan on tenterhooks: Mass protests against the military coup

October 29, 2021 leejayuk

Japan election looms but apathy rules the day!

October 27, 2021 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Hōitsu: A delightful triptych of nature by this Buddhist monk

October 25, 2021October 30, 2021 leejayuk

Sudan in crisis after the military coup: PM Hamdok arrested

October 25, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and continuity despite rapid political changes: Sakai Dōitsu (1845-1913)

October 24, 2021 leejayuk

China and Russia in joint navy patrol: the Sea of Japan, Western Pacific, and the East China Sea

October 23, 2021 leejayuk

Japanese Death Poem: The final moments of Prince Ōtsu (663-686)

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhist poetry from centuries ago

October 21, 2021 leejayuk

State of Emergency in Ecuador: “One enemy and that is drug trafficking”

October 20, 2021 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhist poetry: Saigyō, nature, and solitude

October 20, 2021 leejayuk

Myanmar needs a National Salvation government: Neither side can win, only more suffering! 

October 19, 2021 leejayuk

Poland decries EU threat of economic blackmail: Endless Visegrad disrespect

October 19, 2021 leejayuk

North Korea and South Korea military modernization: Japan watching developments 

October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 leejayuk

Biafra, Communists in Indonesia, and East Timor: Shameful legacy of millions of deaths under Harold Wilson

October 17, 2021 leejayuk

Sudan needs international support to preserve the democratic path

October 16, 2021 leejayuk

MP Amess stabbed to death by Islamist inside a church in England: Apostates face death in Somalia

October 15, 2021 leejayuk

Japan election preparations: Opposition need apathetic non-voters to vote

October 14, 2021 leejayuk

Japanese art and the feeling of Shinto through the prism of nature

October 14, 2021 leejayuk

Sunni Islamists massacre Muslims in mosque attack in Niger

October 12, 2021 leejayuk

Russian Federation dismayed by PM Kishida of Japan: Kuril Islands

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 leejayuk

Buddhist poetry in Japan and the fallen Autumn leaf: Henjō (816-890) and Sōgi (1421-1502)

October 10, 2021 leejayuk

DRC and 26 million people facing food insecurity: WHO sex scandals to elites siphoning money

October 5, 2021 leejayuk

Russian Federation test-launches the Tsirkon hypersonic missile from a submarine

October 4, 2021 leejayuk

China and Taiwan need statecraft: America, Japan, and blocs are meddling

October 3, 2021 leejayuk

South Korea open to lifting sanctions on North Korea: US and peripheral Japan

October 2, 2021October 2, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and the Persimmon Tree: Sawako Utsumi and homage to Sakai Hōitsu

October 2, 2021 leejayuk

America reaches 700,000 Covid deaths: Keeps ticking under Biden despite vaccines

September 30, 2021June 5, 2022 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhism and poetry under Emperor Shōmu in 8th century Nara

September 30, 2021 leejayuk

Prison riot in Ecuador kills at least 116 people: Mexican cartels and Ecuador gangs

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