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November 10, 2021 leejayuk

Presidential candidate in South Korea expresses doubt of any military alliance with Japan

November 9, 2021 leejayuk

Covid-19 numbers in Japan continue to decline

November 8, 2021 leejayuk

PM Kishida in anti-China Human Rights post: Japan and anti-Armenian Turkey can’t let go

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 4, 2021 leejayuk

Tokyo train attacker had planned outside attack first: Desires the death penalty

November 3, 2021 leejayuk

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

November 2, 2021 leejayuk

Opposition leader in Japan to resign: Failure of Yukio Edano

November 2, 2021 leejayuk

Yemen war: Mosque and religious building hit by Houthi missile attack

November 1, 2021 leejayuk

Japan election result: Clear mandate for PM Kishida

October 31, 2021 leejayuk

Japan election: LDP and junior partner Komeito re-elected

October 31, 2021 leejayuk

Tokyo knife attack on Keio Line then fire set on the train carriage 

October 31, 2021 leejayuk

Rich elites ply COP26 in Glasgow: A city where poorer males die 15.4 years earlier

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 26, 2021 leejayuk

President el-Sisi lifts the State of Emergency in Egypt: Anti-Christian attacks and Muslim Brotherhood

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 24, 2021October 24, 2021 leejayuk

PM Viktor Orbán of Hungary says, “We’re David who Goliath is best off steering clear of”

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

Japanese poetry: Highly esteemed Hitomaro from 7th to early 8th century

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

Japan politics: Komeito opposes LDP focus on increased military spending

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

Bloodshed in Beirut is a reminder that regional Christians have been betrayed

October 14, 2021 leejayuk

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

October 13, 2021 leejayuk

Chile declares a ‘state of exception’ concerning Mapuche tensions

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 9, 2021 leejayuk

Shia Muslims killed inside a mosque in Afghanistan by a Uighur terrorist

October 8, 2021 leejayuk

Buddhist nun: Art, poetry, Japanese anti-Buddhism, and sadness of Rengetsu (1791-1875)

October 7, 2021 leejayuk

Japan and the Russian Federation: Kishida and Putin hold a positive chat

October 7, 2021 leejayuk

Nigeria cholera deaths reach 3,000: Lassa fever deaths reach 77

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

September 29, 2021 leejayuk

DRC and another sex scandal involving the WHO: Exploitation during Ebola crisis

September 29, 2021 leejayuk

Japan LDP leadership battle: Fumio Kishida wins and vows a fairer society

September 28, 2021 leejayuk

Japan to finally end the Covid-19 State of Emergency after many months

September 27, 2021 leejayuk

Anti-Russia and anti-China politicians in Japan says Russia: AUKUS to Cybersecurity

September 26, 2021 leejayuk

North Korea and South Korea in a possible inter-Korean summit: Japan on sidelines

September 25, 2021 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhism and art: Hakuin Ekaku and Chinese philosophy

September 24, 2021 leejayuk

Crypto transactions banned in China

September 22, 2021 leejayuk

Judiciary in Venezuela accused of assisting state oppression by UN fact-finding Mission

September 20, 2021 leejayuk

Haiti migrants claim discrimination: Biden’s past disparage and unfairness

September 18, 2021 leejayuk

The last military strike under Biden in Afghanistan was killing innocents

September 17, 2021 leejayuk

Human Rights Council condemns all sides in the Yemen conflict

September 14, 2021 leejayuk

Taliban is killing civilians in Panjshir and persecuting others

September 13, 2021 leejayuk

Vietnam and Japan praise relations between both nation in Hanoi: Russian Federation

September 13, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and Greek philosophy: Still life art and the scroll of time

September 12, 2021 leejayuk

Nigeria cholera death toll reaches over 2,000 people

September 12, 2021 leejayuk

Peru Maoist leader Guzmán of Shining Path dies: Rich educated Marxists

September 11, 2021 leejayuk

Japan LDP leadership battle: Taro Kono playing traditional conservatism

September 10, 2021 leejayuk

Meningitis outbreak in DRC with 50 percent fatality ratio: 129 known deaths

September 9, 2021 leejayuk

Japan LDP Leadership battle: Sanae Takaichi and nationalism

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 leejayuk

US Democrats decry non-inclusive Taliban regime while praising non-inclusive Qatar

September 8, 2021 leejayuk

Pneumonic Plague kills 7 in Madagascar

September 8, 2021 leejayuk

Japan LDP leadership battle: Fumio Kishida vows fairer society

September 7, 2021 leejayuk

Suspected Islamists hack another 30 people to death in the DRC

September 7, 2021 leejayuk

Cuba to vaccinate children from the age of 2 against Covid-19

September 6, 2021September 6, 2021 leejayuk

An artistic Buddhist monk of bygone days in Japan

September 5, 2021 leejayuk

Failed Japan mission in Afghanistan means help from China, Russia, and regionally

September 4, 2021 leejayuk

China says “alien models” will fail externally and internally: Afghanistan, Visegrad, and the Asia Pacific

September 3, 2021 leejayuk

PM Suga of Japan to resign but LDP family deadwood and factions to remain

September 2, 2021 leejayuk

North Korea rejects Covid jabs politely by saying other nations need more

September 1, 2021 leejayuk

Japan reaches 1.5 million Covid-19 cases since the crisis began in early 2020

August 31, 2021 leejayuk

Rich Gulf Powers don’t like Christian refugees or Afghanistan refugees: Migrant labor is fine!

August 30, 2021 leejayuk

Over 900 people in Japan on ventilators from Covid-19: Suga, Koike, and priority

August 29, 2021 leejayuk

Islamists burn and hack 19 people to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo

August 28, 2021 leejayuk

Transitional Military Council in Chad ready for dialogue with Front for Change and Concord

August 28, 2021 leejayuk

Over 118,000 people in Japan recuperating at home from Covid: Bed shortages to sport

August 27, 2021 leejayuk

The UK evacuated Japanese Embassy staff from Kabul: Usual reliance on others

August 26, 2021 leejayuk

ISIS attack in Afghanistan kills many in Kabul: Twin fear of Sunni Islamist Takfiris

August 26, 2021 leejayuk

Suzuki Takayuki wins first Paralympic gold for in Tokyo for Japan: Northern England connection

August 26, 2021 leejayuk

US-backed Kurds in Syria continue to be targeted by NATO Turkey: A paper tiger

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