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January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 leejayuk

Japan in a rapid rise in Covid-19 cases after New Year period

January 11, 2022January 11, 2022 leejayuk

Japan maintains tight border controls concerning the Omicron variant

January 9, 2022 leejayuk

The call of faith in the heart of Tokyo

January 7, 2022January 7, 2022 leejayuk

Tokyu Railways serving the Tokyo area wants to hike prices by 12.9 percent 

January 3, 2022 leejayuk

Japanese oldest person in the world reaches 119 years of age

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 leejayuk

Japanese art and the majesty of the sky 

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 leejayuk

Japan welcomes in 2022 with grimmer demographic news

December 30, 2021 leejayuk

Osaka clinic arsonist and murder suspect of 25 people dies

December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 leejayuk

Buddhism and the Japanese calligrapher Sugawara Mitsushige: Bodhisattva Kannon

December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 leejayuk

Afghan females protest for rights in Kabul: Warning shots heard 

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and influence of China: Sakaki Hyakusen and Buddhism

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 24, 2021December 24, 2021 leejayuk

Russia condemns NATO and US: You expanded NATO to the east – Japan and South Korea

December 22, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and Gyoshu Hayami (1894-1935)

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 19, 2021 leejayuk

Super Typhoon Rai kills at least 100 people in the Philippines

December 17, 2021 leejayuk

Osaka fire kills many in a suspected arson attack

December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 leejayuk

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

December 16, 2021 leejayuk

Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for booster shots sanctioned in Japan

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and the fusion of ideas: Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755)

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 8, 2021 leejayuk

South Korea in Covid-19 surge: Vaccine immunity waning among the elderly

December 7, 2021 leejayuk

The Chinese artist Shen Quan and his stay in Edo Japan: Sublime nature

December 4, 2021December 4, 2021 leejayuk

Japan art and Yanagisawa Kien: Edo artist influenced by Buddhism, China, and Confucianism

December 4, 2021 leejayuk

Burkina Faso and Islamists are heaping sorrow on 1.3 million internally displaced

December 2, 2021 leejayuk

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

December 1, 2021 leejayuk

Japan denies entry to foreigners from nations of new Omicron Covid variant

November 30, 2021 leejayuk

Uganda with DRC support bombs ADF Islamists in eastern DRC

November 28, 2021 leejayuk

Japan border controls tightened on new Covid variant first noted in Botswana

November 25, 2021November 25, 2021 leejayuk

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

November 25, 2021 leejayuk

Australia sends troops to the Solomon Islands: Chinatown attacked again

November 24, 2021 leejayuk

China and Russia to increase military drills in Northeast Asia: Japan geopolitics

November 22, 2021 leejayuk

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

November 21, 2021 leejayuk

Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria to alter fight against Islamist terrorists: Instability in Africa

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 17, 2021 leejayuk

Japan to allow people to mix third Covid-19 vaccine shot

November 15, 2021 leejayuk

Pakistan and religious minorities: Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and others feel betrayed

November 15, 2021 leejayuk

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

November 14, 2021 leejayuk

Japan Covid-19 fully vaccinated nearing 75 percent: G-7 political factors

November 13, 2021 leejayuk

PM Kishida appoints Hayashi to the dismay of Abe and Aso: Foreign Minister and China

November 10, 2021 leejayuk

Ethiopia crisis: TPLF forces accused of raping women in the Amhara region

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 7, 2021 leejayuk

Iraq assassination attempt against PM al-Kadhimi fails

November 6, 2021November 6, 2021 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Hishida Shunsō: Nature and Buddhism 

November 5, 2021 leejayuk

ANC in worst election result since Apartheid ended in South Africa

November 4, 2021 leejayuk

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

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

November 2, 2021 leejayuk

Opposition leader in Japan to resign: Failure of Yukio Edano

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 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 29, 2021 leejayuk

Japan election looms but apathy rules the day!

October 25, 2021October 30, 2021 leejayuk

Sudan in crisis after the military coup: PM Hamdok arrested

October 24, 2021 leejayuk

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

October 20, 2021 leejayuk

Yemen and UNICEF says 10,000 children killed or injured since the war began

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 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 11, 2021 leejayuk

Austria and political order despite Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigning 

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 8, 2021 leejayuk

France and Greece sign Defense Pact: NATO members worry about NATO Turkey

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

PM Kishida of Japan announces a general election for October 31

October 4, 2021 leejayuk

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

October 2, 2021October 2, 2021 leejayuk

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

September 30, 2021June 5, 2022 leejayuk

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

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 27, 2021September 27, 2021 leejayuk

Merkel bows out but the election in Germany means an estranged coalition awaits

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