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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
As the Democratic Party of Japan’s stunning victory and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s resounding defeat was reported Sunday night, many voters on the streets of Tokyo said they savored their chance to vote for change. At Ueno Station, a 60-year-old employee from Saitama ...
The possible power shift in Sunday’s general election signals change for many, and one minority interest group is daring to hope it will bring about the biggest change yet. The nation’s gay and lesbian community, which has long been calling for an antidiscrimination law ...
On the basis of substantially increased hospitalizations, the H1N1 swine flu outbreak was declared an epidemic by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases on Friday. According to the NIID, the average number of flu patients per hospital during the week of Aug. 10 to ...
Child-rearing support is a focal issue in the campaign for the Aug. 30 election as the two main parties fight to woo parents, especially those who both work or have young children. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its main rival, the Democratic Party ...
For more than 130 years, the University of Tokyo has been unrivaled as the gateway to elite careers for thousands of hopeful candidates who pass the exam to get in. Established by the Meiji government, the university commonly called Todai was established as the ...
Relief was the overriding emotion of the candidates who weren’t picked in a final lottery draw Monday to participate in the first criminal trial under the new lay judge system. “I was glad because I had been nervous and worried, as I don’t have ...
Pascal Latui, 28, first fell for Yumiko, 36, on a backpacking trip in Japan in June 2006. She was a receptionist at the Tokyo youth hostel where he was staying. Though he returned home to Belgium after 20 days, he was determined to return ...
Freelance journalist and longtime Japan resident Thomas Dillon was at first shy of being on the receiving end of questions. “I don’t have any wisdom in my head, even though I don’t have much hair on it,” said the 54-year-old part-time university professor and ...
The Democratic Party of Japan’s rise to pre-eminence in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly may force Gov. Shintaro Ishihara to bend on some of his more controversial policies, notably the funding of troubled lender Shinginko Tokyo, according to observers. His Liberal Democratic Party and its ...
With the July 12 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election drawing near, opposition parties are beginning to attack the contentious policies endorsed by the bureaucracy and Gov. Shintaro Ishihara. Among the hottest issues are the relocation of the Tsukiji fish market, the bid for the 2016 ...
When people searching for love find their perfect mate, they often liken the convergence to “chemistry” — that special something that brings one certain individual to the head of the class. According to U.S. biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, whose research on body chemistry is ...
In a tranquil neighborhood surrounded by green mountains in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, near a trickling brook and houses with colorful gardens, a group of excited children, aged 4 and 5, emerged from Kobato Nursery school, and headed for a nearby park. All they ...