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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
Manager Tatsunori Hara put the season in Hirokazu Sawamura’s hands, and the rest of the Yomiuri Giants followed the young pitcher’s lead. Because they did, the Kyojin‘s Japan Series hopes are alive and well. Sawamura threw six innings of shutout ball, Shinnosuke Abe drove ...
Shinnosuke Abe rallied the troops before the Yomiuri Giants took the field for Game 4 of the Central League Climax Series final stage. After a year that saw them win the league title by 10 1/2 games, the Kyojin arrived at Tokyo Dome on ...
It’s beginning to look like the Chunichi Dragons just will not be denied. Pinch hitter Takahiro Donoue connected on a tiebreaking RBI single in the top of the 10th and closer Hitoki Iwase, with a helping hand from his defense, shut the door in ...
Junki Ito turned 21 years old in January. That’s three fewer years than his batterymate Motonobu Tanishige has been a professional baseball player. Still, the generation gap between them doesn’t seem as wide as the one that separated them from the Yomiuri Giants on ...
Second-year pitcher Yudai Ono was asked to go into a stadium in which he’d only won once, to face a team that’d beaten him up in his last two outings all while trying to help the Chunichi Dragons avoid a 2-0 deficit in the ...
Everyone understood this was the end of the line for Hiroyuki Nakajima. The Seibu Lions’ 3-2 loss in Game 3 of the Pacific League Climax Series first stage not only ended the team’s season, but also probably ended Nakajima’s Lions career. The All-Star shortstop ...
As Wily Mo Pena munched on a bowl of fruit on his way out of Seibu Dome, he tried to remember having a bigger hit than the one he had Monday against the Lions, a two-run double that accounted for the majority of his ...
Wily Mo Pena said he couldn’t remember the last time he was in an elimination game. He’ll have a hard time forgetting this one. Pena hit a two-run double in the fourth inning, Seiichi Uchikawa added an insurance run in the eighth, and the ...
A number of Seibu Lions fans spent their time outside Seibu Dome looking into a television camera and imploring their team to get a win. The Lions’ players weren’t quite ready for the season to end yet either. In the end, everybody got what ...
Shota Takeda has all kinds of talent. At the tender age of 19, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks right-hander made 11 starts this season, winning eight and finishing the year with a 1.08 ERA. It could probably be said that Takeda has more raw talent ...
Reliever Masahiko Morifuku made his first postseason appearance of the year in the ninth inning, with the bases loaded, nobody out, and his team clinging to a two-run lead in Game 1 of the first stage of the Pacific League Climax Series. Fukuoka Softbank ...
Tadashi Settsu was a long way from Fukuoka, wearing his road uniform and standing on the mound in another team’s stadium. Despite all that, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks ace felt right at home. Settsu threw eight scoreless innings, and reliever Masahiko Morifuku pitched out ...