America and Iran Tensions Spiral – Attacks Hit Several Nations
America and Iran Tensions Spiral – Attacks Hit Several Nations Kanako Mita, Noriko Watanabe, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The deaths of three American soldiers in Jordan and…
America Targets the Infrastructure of Iran (Kuwait and Others Attacked)
America Targets the Infrastructure of Iran (Kuwait and Others Attacked) Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a sustained military…
Contemporary Japanese Art by Sawako Utsumi
Contemporary Japanese Art by Sawako Utsumi Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Sawako Utsumi is a contemporary artist from northern Japan whose paintings transform familiar landscapes into luminous realms of…
DRC Ebola Deaths Mount while Health Workers Strike
DRC Ebola Deaths Mount while Health Workers Strike Michiyo Tanabe and Noriko Watanabe Modern Tokyo Times The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is placing…
Japanese Art and the Sun of Life
Japanese Art and the Sun of Life Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The captivating artwork above is by Maekawa Senpan (1888–1960), who studied Western-style oil painting at the Kansai…
Venezuela Earthquake Deaths Continue to Mount
Venezuela Earthquake Deaths Continue to Mount Michiyo Tanabe and Chika Mori Modern Tokyo Times Acting President Delcy Rodríguez of Venezuela and the United Nations have appealed for greater international assistance…
Nichiren via the Lens of Japanese Art
Nichiren via the Lens of Japanese Art Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Tenrei Horiuchi (1903–1982) completed a beautiful series of woodblock prints devoted to Nichiren during the late 1950s.…
ISIS Suspects Arrested in Syria after Terrorist Attacks
ISIS Suspects Arrested in Syria after Terrorist Attacks Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Sunni Islamist authorities in Damascus continue to be courted by…
Japan Art and Sōami (Muromachi Period)
Japan Art and Sōami (Muromachi period) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Sōami remains one of Japan’s most revered artistic figures from the Muromachi period, and despite the passage of…
Japan Novelist and Poet – Despair and Sadness of Doppo Kunikida (Meiji Japan)
Japan Novelist and Poet – Despair and Sadness of Doppo Kunikida (Meiji Japan) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Japanese novelist and poet Doppo Kunikida lived with a quiet…