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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
The business confidence of big manufacturers dipped below zero for the first time in more than five years in the latest Bank of Japan “tankan” survey released Wednesday. Large manufacturers’ business sentiment has dropped for four straight quarters and now stands at minus 3, ...
A famous corporate brand name will disappear Wednesday when Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. abandons the name of its founder in an attempt to evolve into a truly global corporation. The company, named after its late founder Konosuke Matsushita, is changing its name to Panasonic ...
Achieving a primary surplus by fiscal 2011 is not the most important goal for Prime Minister Taro Aso’s administration, finance and financial services minister Shoichi Nakagawa said in an interview Friday. While the government hasn’t given up on the objective, Nakagawa stressed that a ...
Prime Minister Taro Aso’s appointment of Shoichi Nakagawa to head both the Finance Ministry and the Financial Services Agency drew mixed reactions Thursday as economists wondered whether the move will help Japan cope with global turmoil or compromise the FSA’s regulatory role. Aso said ...
The Bank of Japan and four other central banks Thursday agreed to a $180 billion swap deal with the U.S. Federal Reserve to pump dollars into short-term money markets and ease the global credit crunch. The BOJ agreed to a dollar swap of up ...
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s emergency $85 billion rescue of the U.S. insurer American International Group eased concerns Wednesday that its Japanese unit will survive, at least for the time being. “It means that the U.S. government and financial authorities are tackling the problem to ...
Monday’s bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the fourth-biggest financial institution in the United States, sent shock waves through the global financial industry, and Japan was no exception. “Each bank seems to have a certain amount of exposure to Lehman Brothers, and that is ...
Twenty years ago, at the height of the bubble economy, Coach Inc. started out small in Japan, selling its products at the Mitsukoshi department store in Yokohama. At that time, the Coach brand was just starting to become popular in its home market in ...
What would you do if you won ¥400 million? Would you buy a convertible, a new house, start a business? All of the above? The dream of winning big is the lottery’s lure, and as the economy turns bleaker, inflation kicks in, the pension ...
Hammered out in lengthy negotiations among ministries and the ruling parties, the government put forward an ¥11.7 trillion economic stimulus package Friday financed by a ¥1.8 trillion supplementary budget to be submitted to next month’s extraordinary Diet session. The move by Prime Minister Yasuo ...
Ballooning debt-servicing costs will raise next year’s general account budget to ¥86.13 trillion on a request basis, a 3.7 percent rise from this year, Finance Ministry officials said Thursday. The total size of this year’s requests by ministries and agencies is second only to ...
The government will draft a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year to secure financial resources for an economic stimulus package to be drafted by month’s end, economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano said Friday. Before the Cabinet meeting Friday morning, Prime Minister ...