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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 arrival of the first group of MV-22 Osprey aircraft in Japan last week amid strong safety concerns means the central government has effectively committed itself to preventing accidents far into the future. The safety of the U.S. tilt-rotor transports, deployed for actual operations ...
Kansai Electric Power Co. will still be pressed to provide enough power this summer despite plans to restart a second reactor. The reactivation of reactors 3 and 4 at the Oi power plant in Fukui Prefecture will boost Kepco’s output capacity by 4.46 million ...
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda managed to get the Lower House to pass the contentious tax hike bill, but his troubles are far from over, as demonstrated by the no votes cast by the Democratic Party of Japan’s kingpin, Ichiro Ozawa, and more than 50 ...
Japanese automakers have accelerated moves to trim domestic output as much as possible amid the yen’s prolonged strength and dwindling domestic demand. Industry analysts say expanding overseas production is the first step Japanese automakers can take to improve earnings, since the strong yen erodes ...
The yen fell against the euro and Asian stocks rose after proausterity New Democracy won the national elections in Greece on Sunday, but pundits warned that it is too early for Japan to breathe a sigh of relief. The outcome “is a big step ...
Facing retrial, exoneration and freedom after spending 15 years in prison for the 1997 murder of a Tokyo woman — a crime for which he was initially acquitted — Govinda Prasad Mainali could be a case study in the flaws in the nation’s judicial ...
In anticipation of tight electricity supply conditions this summer without nuclear energy, the government has taken the unusual step of setting numerical targets for power usage in extensive areas served by seven of the nation’s 10 utilities. But the move is risky, as it ...
The confrontation between the central government and Kansai area leaders over the restart of two nuclear reactors in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, has more to do with the growing power struggle between Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda than with safety or ...
The leaders of Japan, China and South Korea have announced their countries will launch negotiations on a trilateral free-trade agreement by year’s end. But the prospects are far from rosy. The deal on the talks is seen by many experts as a by-product of, ...
Bic Camera Inc., the nation’s fifth-biggest retailer of home electronics, is buying a majority stake in Kojima Co., the seventh-largest, to create what will be the No. 2 player in the industry following behemoth Yamada Denki Co. Kojima, once the industry leader, decided to ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s special 10-year turnaround plan has been officially endorsed by the government, but industry observers are skeptical it will work. The plan is for the beleaguered utility to get back into the black within two years, but that all depends on ...
With concerns growing over China’s military buildup and strains on the Korean Peninsula, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda became the country’s first leader to formally meet U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House since the Democratic Party of Japan swept to power in 2009. ...