Tag: Tokyo news agency
Japan art and Yanagisawa Kien: Edo artist influenced by Buddhism, China, and Confucianism
Burkina Faso and Islamists are heaping sorrow on 1.3 million internally displaced
Japan art and the individualism of Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
Japan art and bijan-ga (beautiful ladies) of the Edo Period
Japan border controls tightened on new Covid variant first noted in Botswana
Japan art and self-portrait while dying: Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650)
Bus accident kills 45 in Bulgaria: Passengers mainly from North Macedonia
Japan art and the intriguing Hanabusa Itchō (1652-1724)
Sudan coup leaders reinstate PM Abdalla Hamdok: Tensions remain
Art of Japan and Sanraku: Pre-Edo period to early Edo and anti-Christianity
Uganda kills Islamist ADF terrorist recruiting cleric after the recent attack
Japan and record $490 billion stimulus package: Debt and right target?
United States drug overdose deaths reach 100,000 in 12 month period
Japan to allow people to mix third Covid-19 vaccine shot
Pakistan and religious minorities: Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and others feel betrayed
Art of 12th century Japan: Mitsunaga and a glimpse into the ending of the Heian Period
Japan Covid-19 fully vaccinated nearing 75 percent: G-7 political factors
India faces possible US sanctions over S-400 air defense systems from Russia
PM Kishida appoints Hayashi to the dismay of Abe and Aso: Foreign Minister and China
Sudan and new ruling council led by General al-Burhan
Ethiopia crisis: TPLF forces accused of raping women in the Amhara region
Presidential candidate in South Korea expresses doubt of any military alliance with Japan
Covid-19 numbers in Japan continue to decline
PM Kishida in anti-China Human Rights post: Japan and anti-Armenian Turkey can’t let go
Iraq assassination attempt against PM al-Kadhimi fails
Art of Japan and Hishida Shunsō: Nature and Buddhism
ANC in worst election result since Apartheid ended in South Africa
Quad for Sudan to support stability: Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the US
Tokyo train attacker had planned outside attack first: Desires the death penalty
Ethiopia crisis: TPLF and Oromo forces seek to expand
Art of Japan and the Middle Kingdom (China): Buddhism, Confucianism, and other ideas
Opposition leader in Japan to resign: Failure of Yukio Edano
Yemen war: Mosque and religious building hit by Houthi missile attack
Japan election result: Clear mandate for PM Kishida
Japan election: LDP and junior partner Komeito re-elected
Tokyo knife attack on Keio Line then fire set on the train carriage
Rich elites ply COP26 in Glasgow: A city where poorer males die 15.4 years earlier
Ethiopia crisis: Tigrayan forces claim to take a strategic town in Amhara
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
President el-Sisi lifts the State of Emergency in Egypt: Anti-Christian attacks and Muslim Brotherhood
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
PM Viktor Orbán of Hungary says, “We’re David who Goliath is best off steering clear of”
Japanese Buddhist poetry from centuries ago
Yemen and UNICEF says 10,000 children killed or injured since the war began
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
Japanese poetry: Highly esteemed Hitomaro from 7th to early 8th century
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
Japan politics: Komeito opposes LDP focus on increased military spending
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
Bloodshed in Beirut is a reminder that regional Christians have been betrayed
Japanese art and the feeling of Shinto through the prism of nature
Sunni Islamists massacre Muslims in mosque attack in Niger
Chile declares a ‘state of exception’ concerning Mapuche tensions
Russian Federation dismayed by PM Kishida of Japan: Kuril Islands
Austria and political order despite Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigning
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
Shia Muslims killed inside a mosque in Afghanistan by a Uighur terrorist
Buddhist nun: Art, poetry, Japanese anti-Buddhism, and sadness of Rengetsu (1791-1875)
France and Greece sign Defense Pact: NATO members worry about NATO Turkey
Japan and the Russian Federation: Kishida and Putin hold a positive chat
Nigeria cholera deaths reach 3,000: Lassa fever deaths reach 77
Russian Federation test-launches the Tsirkon hypersonic missile from a submarine
PM Kishida of Japan announces a general election for October 31
China and Taiwan need statecraft: America, Japan, and blocs are meddling
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
Japan to finally end the Covid-19 State of Emergency after many months
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
Crypto transactions banned in China
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
The elderly population in Japan reaches 36.4 million
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