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Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
Tim Duncan saves the day as the Spurs hold off the Grizzlies in overtime
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Allied prosecutors probed the delay in delivering U.S. President Roosevelt's letter to Emperor Hirohito on the eve of war, apparently to establish that the foreign minister was to blame for failing to stop the attack on Pearl Harbor.
When the Kinoya fish processing company in Ishinomaki opened its brand new flagship factory last month, it gave employees a ray of hope that it would recover from the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that destroyed much of the city.
One of the defining images from the Great East Japan Earthquake is of a tsunami-hit tourist bus stranded on the roof of the two-story community center in the Pacific coastal district of Ogatsu, Miyagi Prefecture. The last sight Akinari Abe, 24, remembers about his ...
Japan Airlines Co. Chairman Emeritus Kazuo Inamori will retire from JAL’s board of directors on March 31, effectively giving its management a freer hand, a source said Thursday. Although Inamori will retain the honorary chairmanship, his duties will be limited to advising the management ...
Xi Jinping will be elected president of China and Li Keqiang will be named premier during the National People’s Congress session that has kicked off.
Cherry blossoms at The Peninsula As spring approaches, The Peninsula Tokyo is preparing special interior arrangements with installations of the nation’s most iconic seasonal items in the hotel’s lobby from March 11 to 15. Guests can enjoy cherry blossom season with seven magnificent sakura ...
On my recent trip to Singapore, Japanese drinks seemed to follow me everywhere. At Jigger & Pony, a stylish new cocktail bar in an old part of Chinatown, the first thing I noticed was the selection of around 20 Suntory and Nikka whiskies that ...
Many Japanese foodies are enamored with the hamburger, in much the same way that their American counterparts are often besotted with ramen. The number of hamburger shops in Tokyo has exploded in the last decade, but there are also signs that the fascination runs ...
If you thought the tsk-tsk antics of the French aristocracy ended when the peasants stormed the Bastille, “Bel Ami” is here to tell you that corruption and debauchery among the upper classes carried on for at least a century more. Based on a novel ...
Oliver Stone’s first hit as a director was “Salvador,” way back in 1986, which looked at a small Latin American nation’s descent into political murder, funded mostly by its larger neighbor to the north. Now, with “Savages,” he seems to have come full circle, ...
It’s a scene we’ve seen in so many other movies: Two soldiers, in full dress uniform, arrive on some leafy suburban street and knock on a door. “We regret to inform you ma’am” is usually about how far they get into their message before ...
You’re old, sick and bedridden. You’ve just suffered a stroke and lost most of your motor skills. Who will tend to your basic needs, brush your hair and see to it that you hold on to at least a semblance of personal dignity? Increasingly ...
It’s rare indeed that I ever wished a new Japanese film were longer — and I am not the only one. “This could be shorter by (name your number) minutes” is such a cliche of Japanese film reviewing and commentary that I inwardly groan ...
There’s a moment in “Oz the Great and Powerful,” Disney’s much-anticipated prequel to the 1939 MGM classic “The Wizard of Oz,” where a character falls to the floor, in the midst of a witchy transmogrification into something evil. Off-screen she remains until suddenly, with ...
‘Negative: Nothing” a documentary film on the odyssey of a Swiss man who walked the length of Japan, will again be screened in Tokyo this month. After becoming unemployed when his clients cancelled their trips to Japan in the wake of the disasters of ...
If you had a son or daughter who announced they wanted to be a stage actor, whatever would you say to them? In Japan today, as in centuries past, this still remains a dreaded scenario for many “respectable” parents hoping to raise children who ...
Humans performing seemingly superhuman feats with style and panache: that’s the story of the Shenyang Acrobatic Troupe in a nutshell. The group is currently touring Japan with a show called “Sky Mirage,” in which acrobats delight audiences with amazing stunts such as drum juggling, ...
Daikan Yoh was surrounded by a mob befitting a rock star. Most eyes had been trained on the Taiwanese outfielder during his team’s practice session at Tokyo Dome on Friday, and finally they’d caught up to him. The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters outfielder had ...
Stable leadership is as important to a team’s success as hard-working players. The Toyama Grouses have both. Led by bench boss Bob Nash and a veteran nucleus of players, the Grouses (25-13, tied for the third-best record in the 11-team Eastern Conference) have put ...