Japan Art and the Fleeting Life of Birds by Hishida Shunsō
Japan Art and the Fleeting Life of Birds by Hishida Shunsō Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The luminous painter Hishida Shunsō (1874–1911) belonged to the final, restless decades of…
DRC and M23 Crisis (America and Rwanda)
DRC and M23 Crisis (America and Rwanda) Noriko Watanabe and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), alongside the United States,…
Japan Art and Watanabe Shikō (1683–1755)
Japan Art and Watanabe Shikō (1683–1755) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Watanabe Shikō (1683–1755) revealed a rare artistic sensitivity from an early age, his vision shaped within the refined…
America and Japan: Accumulative Debt Spirals (Russia and China)
America and Japan: Accumulative Debt Spirals (Russia and China) Noriko Watanabe, Hiroshi Saito, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi lavished praise on President Donald Trump…
Germany is Anti-Russia to an Extreme under Merz
Germany is Anti-Russia to an Extreme under Merz Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, much like his predecessor Olaf Scholz,…
Japanese Art and Culture
Japanese Art and Culture Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Hanabusa Itchō (1652–1724) emerged from the richly layered yet fiercely codified world of the Edo Period as an artist of…
Syria Remains Fragile – Religious Persecution
Syria Remains Fragile – Religious Persecution Murad Makhmudov, Noriko Watanabe, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times President Donald Trump of the United States and leading European Union nations –…
Mali and JNIM Islamists: Sahel Crisis
Mali and JNIM Islamists: Sahel Crisis Boutros Hussain, Michiyo Tanabe, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Sahel region has endured prolonged upheaval for many years. Yet the internal…
Art of Japan and the Lotus
Art of Japan and the Lotus Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times All three artworks are devoted to the enduring beauty of the lotus, a flower that has long occupied…
Chittagong Hill Tracts and West Papua (Indigenous Marginalized and Islamization)
Chittagong Hill Tracts and West Papua (Indigenous Marginalized and Islamization) Noriko Watanabe, Michiyo Tanabe, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The non-Muslim indigenous peoples of West Papua (Indonesia) and…