International News and Japanese art
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 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 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 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 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 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) Noriko Watanabe, Michiyo Tanabe, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The non-Muslim indigenous peoples of West Papua (Indonesia) and…
Myanmar Conflict Needs a Way Out (National Salvation Government) Michiyo Tanabe, Noriko Watanabe, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Myanmar needs a National Salvation government — even if militants…
Israel Distrustful of America and Iran Deal (Hamas and Hezbollah) Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times President Donald Trump has stipulated that a deal to…
Japanese Art: Richness of Culture and Identity Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Nishimura Shigenaga possessed both unwavering self-belief and a profound determination to secure his place within Japan’s flourishing…