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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
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Fukushima Prefecture for five days starting July 22 to support decontamination efforts. The experts will be provided with local radiation data, tour disaster-hit areas and support Fukushima’s compilation of radiation maps, and radioactive decontamination and ...
Scientists said Tuesday they have detected radioactive cesium from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in plankton collected from all 10 points in the Pacific they checked, with the highest levels at around 25 degrees north latitude and 150 degrees west longitude. Researchers from ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch the country’s new Epsilon solid-fuel rocket on Aug. 22, carrying a satellite whose mission is to observe Venus and Mars while orbiting Earth, the science ministry said Tuesday. The three-stage rocket — the successor to the M-5 ...
Kyodo News on Monday dismissed senior official Satoshi Kondo, who formerly served as personnel affairs director, over inappropriate conduct toward a student who was applying for a job at the news agency. In connection with Kyodo’s recruitment activities for 2013, Kondo personally contacted the ...
A government panel on Tuesday compiled a final draft of cyber-attack countermeasures, including a proposal to boost the capabilities of the Self-Defense Forces to tackle high-level strikes possibly conducted by foreign governments. “We need to quickly respond not only to enhance national security and ...
Police have arrested a 47-year-old man who took part in a regularly held anti-Korean demonstration in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, for allegedly assaulting another man protesting the rally. The man arrested Monday identified himself as Hiroshi Akai, an unemployed former Self-Defense Force member from Kumagaya, ...
A government panel discussing measures to boost tourism has drawn up an interim report proposing a new type of entry qualification that would allow wealthy foreigners to stay in the country for several years.
North Korea fires two more "projectiles" into the Sea of Japan, drawing more condemnation from South Korea and the United Nations.
The city of Yokohama reaches its 2010 goal of clearing all nursery school waiting lists, a feat that could lead to relief for Japan's working parents.
A hospital announces it is ready to perform preventive mastectomies and that it has done so for several women in the past who developed cancer.
Visa violators kick off a five-day protest at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau to protest plans to deport overstayers en masse on planes.
Residents and supporters held a rally Sunday to call for a peaceful Okinawa free of military bases 41 years after the prefecture reverted to Japanese rule. Despite heavy rain, about 3,500 people turned out for the rally in a park in Ginowan, organizers said. ...