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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
Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) has expelled House of Representatives lawmaker Shingo Nishimura for making disparaging public remarks about the South Korean people, party Secretary General Ichiro Matsui said Monday. The rightwinger had offered to leave the party after telling fellow lawmakers ...
Japan is considering resuming talks with India on bilateral cooperation in nuclear energy, the government’s top spokesman said Monday. “We have judged it sensible to negotiate an accord with India on nuclear cooperation,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...
Sasano Nomura, 26, mournfully recalled the first time she put dogs to sleep as a staffer at the Small Animal Management Center in Kochi Prefecture, saying: “I killed them.” Nomura, who began working at the center six years ago, still feels depressed when she ...
The ruling coalition’s loss in a mayoral race in Saitama on Sunday delivered a setback to the Liberal Democratic Party and ally New Komeito, which hope to win control of the opposition-controlled House of Councilors this summer. The incumbent, Hayato Shimizu, 51, was re-elected ...
Lawmakers across party lines pledged Monday to revise a law they consider obsolete that imposes strict operational and licensing rules on dance clubs. ” ‘Abenomics’ encourages exporting Japan’s traditional culture, but we should also capitalize on new ‘J-culture’ to lure foreigners and spur the ...
The government and Japan Post Co. are expected to help Myanmar modernize its postal system to improve its services, sources said. Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshitaka Shindo and Myanmar Communications and Information Technology Minister Myat Hein are expected to confirm the cooperation in ...
Three Maritime Self-Defense Force training ships plan to make a port visit in Myanmar in early October, sources said. Japan apparently intends to use the port visit to deepen relations with Myanmar as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe work to boost Japan’s presence in Southeast ...
Kumamon, the official black bear mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, will visit France in July to take part in the Japan Expo, local officials said Monday. Kumamon, one of Japan’s most popular regional promotional mascots, will be making its European debut at the culture and ...
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Monday the government has identified the country whose submarine was detected while submerged the previous day near Okinawa and will call for such encroachments to cease. Onodera did not disclose the country, saying the vessel did not intrude into ...
A possible solution to the increasing amount of radioactive water inside the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could be to pump groundwater into the sea before it flows into the reactor buildings, as planned by the plant operator, the head of international ...
The parents of a dead boy who had Down syndrome have sued an obstetrician in Hokkaido who mistakenly diagnosed an amniotic fluid test as “normal,” people involved in the case said Sunday. “We lost the opportunity to determine whether to continue with the pregnancy ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday he is ready to promote talks with North Korea to resolve the abduction issue after Pyongyang blew the lid off of what was supposed to be a secret trip by one of his closest advisers. “I hope I ...