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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
A Brazilian woman of Japanese descent has filed a lawsuit against the government demanding that she be allowed to re-enter Japan, where her husband lives. Giullyane Futenma, 21, was denied re-entry when her husband Lucas Futenma, 22, also a Japanese-Brazilian, applied for her resident ...
A group of lawyers said Wednesday it plans to file a criminal complaint against Edwin Yoshihiro Fujinaga, president of U.S. asset management firm MRI International Inc., claiming the firm’s mishandling of funds invested by Japanese clients led to massive losses. The Securities and Exchange ...
A 62-year-old woman who served as a citizen judge in a murder case sued the government Tuesday for ¥2 million, arguing her involvement in the trial caused her to suffer acute stress disorder. The resident of Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, was one of the six ...
The families of five people killed when an expressway tunnel ceiling collapsed in December plan to sue Central Nippon Expressway Co., or NEXCO Central, for damages, their lawyers said Tuesday. The accident happened Dec. 2 in the Sasago Tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture on the ...
Govinda Prasad Mainali, the Nepali imprisoned for 15 years for a Tokyo murder he didn't commit, says he is considering suing the central government for his wrongful imprisonment and mistreatment.
Takeda Pharmaceutical is told to pay $6.5 million to a man who sued Asia's largest drugmaker for failing to warn that its Actos diabetes drug could cause cancer.
An Italian judge rejected a request by prosecutors to seize as much as €1.95 billion ($2.5 billion) in assets held by Nomura Holdings Inc. as they probe how Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA used derivatives to conceal losses. The judge in Siena ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical is told to pay $6.5 million to a man who sued Asia's largest drugmaker for failing to warn that its Actos diabetes drug could cause cancer.
When Elisabeth Fritzl emerged in April 2008 to her first breath of fresh air and ray of sunlight in a quarter of a century, she had been raped countless times by her father, Josef, and had borne him seven children. Five years after the ...
The chief of U.S. asset manager MRI International Inc. tells the securities watchdog that the company has lost most of its clients' money.
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission probes a U.S. investment firm after learning it may have lost more than ¥130 billion of its clients' money.
Two inmates are executed for conspiring to gun down two rival yakuza at a restaurant in Chiba in 2005.