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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
On Friday, Nov. 21, the day after the worldwide release of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau in France, I joined a gathering of some 100 wine-lovers in Tokyo’s Odaiba waterfront district to welcome the new, jet-lagged plonk to these shores. However, our meeting point was ...
The film “Tokyo Sonata,” which won the Jury Prize at the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival, will be shown with English subtitles in Tokyo from Dec. 13 to 19. Directed by the renowned Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the film tells a cynical but warm story about ...
Japan’s plan to reprocess and recycle spent nuclear fuel in a reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, will be a huge waste of electricity users’ money and an environmental threat, according to a French atomic power expert. Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd., ...
The ninth Tokyo FILMeX will be held in Tokyo from Nov. 22 to 30. The famed international film festival is aimed at presenting new cinematic trends and screening stringently selected films rich in originality and creativity, according to the festival directors. The main event ...
In early November, Kazuo Yoshihara, an antiques expert with a 30-year career in the field, carefully opened a scroll painting in a room at the 14th Yokohama Kotto World fair. Located at the Pacifico Yokohama event venue, Yoshihara was at the fair giving free ...
A comedic musical based on Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost” will be performed in Tokyo on Nov. 18 and 21. The story, a glorious satire on the Anglo-Saxon nations and a thrilling fairy tale, will be performed by the International Theatre Company London. The ...
One of the world’s most renowned Cuban salsa bands will bring their passionate and romantic performance to a Tokyo audience on Nov. 14. The group, Bamboleo, is led by pianist Lazaro Valdes and features popular singer Tania Pantoja, whose voice is described as “metallic ...
Marco Polo, the famous 13th-century Venetian explorer, wrote in his book “Il Milione (The Million)” that Japan was rich in gold, even though his travels only took him as far as China. It was the first time Japan was introduced to the Western world. ...
Western readers were first exposed to the wonders of “The Tale of Genji” when Kencho Suematsu, a graduate of Cambridge University in England, published his translation of the first 17 of its 54 chapters in London in 1882, according to the renowned scholar of ...
“Genji Monogatari,” known as “The Tale of Genji” in English, is believed by many scholars to be the first full-length novel in world literature. Marking the 1,000th anniversary since its creation, today’s Timeout introduces this masterpiece that draws readers into a beautiful world gone ...
“Genius” is one of those overused words, but few would argue that it is rightly applied to Murasaki Shikibu, whose book “The Tale of Genji” is not only the world’s first novel, but is a work that has delighted and perhaps even guided countless ...
The Colombian contemporary dance group El Colegio del Cuerpo will show off its prizewinning style in the troupe’s first-ever Japan performances on Oct. 29 and 30 in Tokyo. The group, whose name means “school of body” in Spanish, is based in Cartagena, a city ...