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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
Here’s your chance to make a difference while staying fit and having fun. The Nagoya Walkathon — International Charity Festival will be held at Moricoro Park in the city of ...
The city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, is known by many as “curry town.” The port city claims that the curry rice dish that is commonly consumed in Japan spread from ...
It’s that time of the year when things get rosy for flower lovers in Japan. The International Roses & Gardening Show, held annually at the Seibu Dome in Saitama Prefecture, ...
An annual rice-planting festival known as the Mibu no Hana Taue Matsuri will be held Saturday in Hiroshima, giving visitors ...
If you missed the African Festival last month, head over to Yokohama this weekend to take part in Africa Festa. ...
The port city of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, located on the country’s Noto Peninsula, will be filled with things to do for one week from the end of May as it kicks off its Citizens’ Festival. One of the biggest attractions at the event, which ...
This year’s sakura (cherry blossoms) took many people by surprise — especially in the Kanto region. Unusually warm weather in March hastened the peak of the blossoms by a couple of weeks, and by early April, when all the parties by and under the ...
One of Japan’s oldest citizen-run events hits the city of Fukuoka this long-weekend, as the annual Dontaku Festival winds its way into town. It was back in 1179 that the merchants of Hakata (now a central district of the city of Fukuoka) first organized ...
Physical space has always been an important element to consider when dealing with painting and architecture. So much in fact, that some artists create their work specifically to be displayed at a certain location. Fukuoka Art Museum explores this relationship with spaces with “The ...
Known as “Japan’s kitchen,” Osaka takes pride in its culinary tradition. However, foodies in Kansai will soon be able to taste foods from further afield. The International Food Expo Utage, held every four years, will take place at Intex Osaka from April 26 through ...
Last year, the staff at the Visual Museum in the city of Kawaguchi’s industrial hub of Skip City set out to award a new class of explorers. The definition of their so-called media explorer was someone who tried to expand the possibilities of visual ...
There aren’t many people as important in the history of Japan as Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was the man who, in 1603, seized power over the whole country as he launched the Tokugawa Shogunate, which lasted until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Since he is ...
This weekend, six Kansai-based national museums will come together to showcase a broad array of works from their contemporary European collections. The participating galleries are Osaka City Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; The Museum ...
The cherry-blossom parties may be winding down, but revelers in Nagoya don’t have to give up on the fun quite yet. On April 6 and 7, the annual Kakuozan Spring Festival takes place in Chikusa Ward. While hanami (cherry-blossom viewing) parties are essentially Japanese, ...
What do you get when you mix musicians, models and five dancing kids? It’s quite an impressive collection — in fact it’s the Fukuoka Asia Collection (FACo). On March 24 FACo will return to the Fukuoka Kokusai Center for the fifth time. The event, ...
Hisakichi Maeda is best known as the founder of the Sankei Shimbun and developer of the Tokyo Tower. But his interests spread to more down-to-earth enterprises, too. In 1962, four years after opening what was then Japan’s highest structure, Maeda opened a farm on ...
Of all the films the late actress Isuzu Yamada starred in, none of them better symbolized the vicissitudes of her real life than the 1936 “Naniwa Ereji (Naniwa Elegy).” Yamada, who died last year at the age of 95, went through at least three ...