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Japanese tenth-century poetry: Mibu no Tadamine and the Middle Kingdom (China)

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Should BLM change its name or is Arab slavery and ethnic massacres in Africa fine? 

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Japan tourism and Nara: The legacy of Buddhism and high culture thrives

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Art of Japan and poetry: Above the withered fields a bat flits

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Tokyo tourism and Akihabara: Anime, electronic goods, otaku, and maid cafe

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Russian Military Seeking to Counter Growing Chinese Role in Central Asia

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Tokyo lifts Covid-19 business restrictions and people can travel freely in Japan

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Peru Covid-19 crisis is mounting despite government measures

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Japan art and Goshun (1752-1811): The richness of Chinese and Japanese high culture

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India loses 20 soldiers in a border clash with belligerent China: Covid-19 convulsions

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North Korea and South Korea tensions ratchet up: Moon Jae-in is in a spin 

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Many soldiers killed in Mali after Sunni Islamists attack an armed convoy

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Tokyo Governor Koike is enabling the sex entertainment area to threaten society with Covid-19  

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South Africa and woman found hanging from a tree and other murders

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Japanese art and rinpa: Buddhism, Maple trees, and a lovely stone lantern

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Brazil covid-19 deaths reach just below 43,000 with high daily infections 

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Tokyo Governor Koike to run for re-election while people wait for 100,000 yen support 

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UNHCR requests support for the Sahel based on ethnic and religious violence

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Tokyo is moving closer to full economic and social normality from Covid-19

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Russian Navy Prioritizes Tsirkon Hypersonic Missiles

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Japan art and Morimura Hōgi (1805-1862): High culture and continuity

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Ethnic clashes, Christian pogroms, and Islamist terrorist attacks in Nigeria

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Japan and likely increased heatstroke deaths: Facemasks, hot summer, and Covid-19 

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Hungary praises cooperation in Central Europe: Visegrad and reaching out

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Japan is pragmatic about Hong Kong: China versus Australia, Canada, US, and the UK

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Afghan refugees burnt alive by Iran police: “Give me some water, I am burning”

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Japanese death poems: The final flicker of Prince Ōtsu (663-686)

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Another ethnic massacre in Mali and political tensions

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