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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
It seems only natural that everyone should have a wild time, at least once in their life, because for the most part our mortal span is occupied with studying, making a living or raising a family. All that, of course, can be fun — ...
The life of illusionist Tenko Hikita — better known as Princess Tenko — is veiled in mystery. Illusionist Tenko Hikita, better known as Princess Tenko, during a interview with The Japan Times in Tokyo YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTOS [See more in our Photo Gallery] Born ...
Forget Hawaii, Hong Kong, Bali, Britain or Paris — before too long your family vacation choices will include staying at space hotels or taking a 10-day spin around the moon. When Toyoyuki “Nick” Naka- mura first told his colleagues at the Japan Travel Bureau ...
The United States and Europe are finally, albeit slowly, paving the way for space tourism to become a revolutionary source of new business — some economists even believe it could save the stagnating world economy. But many experts are very critical of governments’ “monopoly ...
So what kind of people will be Japan’s first space tourists? The first up of around 20 intrepid Japanese individuals was to have been former Livedoor Co. executive Daisuke “Dice-K” Enomoto, who was slated to fly on the Russian Soyuz in September, making him ...
Every week in Japan, English-language magazines carry upward of 200 classified ads placed by both Japanese and non-Japanese people seeking to meet strangers whom they hope to strike up a relationship with. For the average reader the ads are often the first thing they ...
Dutch artists Monique van Kerkhof and Rob Oudendijk have performed in many unusual places — a synagogue and a company office in New York, and in a huge dried-up reservoir and an art gallery in Japan. But until Nov. 18, they and fellow dancers ...
A third of the models who appeared in Madrid’s civic-sponsored Cibeles collections last year were banned from the same fashion event this September. The move — which triggered debate in and beyond fashion circles around the world — came after city officials declared that ...
At first glance, 46-year-old Mayumi Futamatsu looks like a regular housewife. But as someone who’s “seen both heaven and hell” in her two marriages, she’s a woman with a mission to help all women to be happy — through having better sex lives. When ...
Michal Small has been waiting eagerly for the return of U.S. beef to Japan, but it seems the American will have to wait a while longer before the Roppongi Hills restaurants she frequents start serving the fare again. “I think American beef is absolutely ...
Japan hopes to continue talks with Iran on tapping the Azadegan oil field beyond the Saturday deadline set by Tehran for the nation’s participation, new Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Akira Amari says. “I don’t believe Iran is really willing to stop talks ...
The new finance minister’s statement Wednesday that discussion to raise the consumption tax will only begin next fall has sparked speculation that he will not carry out the last administration’s long-term plans to cut the debt and that it’s a ploy for his party ...