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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
At a time when food prices are on the rise and income levels remain flat, it’s not easy finding the money for shinkansen tickets, which cost ¥13,240 per person for a nonreserved seat from Tokyo to Osaka. But there is another form of public ...
Growth has turned “sluggish,” the Bank of Japan declared Tuesday, revising downward its assessment of the economy for the second straight month. It is the first time in more than 10 years that the BOJ has used “sluggish” to describe the economy and underscores ...
Some 2,500 tourists were on hand to watch as 22-year-old bride Noriko Kageyama and groom Takanori Nakazawa paraded through the streets of Inawashiro town in Fukushima Prefecture one Saturday in June. Wearing traditional black kimono with “tsunokakushi” white bride’s hood, Kageyama, who was born ...
Consumers are being forced to tighten their belts by soaring food and oil prices and the expanding economic slowdown triggered last year by the subprime-loan crisis in the United States. However, they don’t hesitate to splash the cash when it comes to the one ...
The economy shrank at an annualized pace of 2.4 percent in the second quarter, the government said Wednesday, posting Japan’s first negative growth in a year and signaling the approach of a recession linked to rising oil prices and a slowdown in the United ...
The government on Monday unveiled an outline of a stimulus package to help the economy out of its downtrend amid rising oil prices and a global slowdown due to the U.S. subprime crisis. But it did not include how much money the government will ...
With the word “weakening,” the Cabinet Office on Thursday effectively called an end to the longest expansion of the postwar period. In its report for August, the office did away with the July phrasing that the recovery is pausing, making it clear the economy ...
Japan must make clear its criteria for restricting foreign direct investment if it hopes to attract capital from abroad, financial services minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Wednesday. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry got an earful from overseas investors after it ordered The Children’s ...
Before initiating any hike in the 5 percent consumption tax, the ruling bloc must clearly articulate to voters what policies it will pursue and its priorities in line with a higher levy, new Finance Minister Bunmei Ibuki said Monday. Speculation is rife that Friday’s ...
Although the economy is suffering a downturn because of the slowdown in the U.S., Japan is unlikely to experience a recession in the foreseeable future, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the nation’s biggest business lobby, said Thursday. Since the end of last year, personal consumption ...
Sony Corp. said Tuesday its group net profit plunged 47.4 percent to ¥35 billion in the April-June quarter from a year ago amid fierce competition in the consumer electronics sector, including compact digital cameras and computers. The group’s operating profit meanwhile dropped 39.5 percent ...
Visiting Indian Finance Secretary Duvvuri Subbarao called on Japanese firms Friday to boost investment in India, especially in the field of infrastructure, where the nation plans to spend $500 billion in the next five years. India expects foreign direct investment to shoulder about a ...