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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
With the number of foreign visitors finally returning to predisaster levels, the Japan Tourism Agency unveiled Friday its new promotion strategy to draw 10 million travelers this year. “I would like to declare that the era of 10 million inbound visitors has arrived,” JTA ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to weaken the yen is echoing through the duty-free shops and tourist sites of South Korea, where Japanese visitors spent about $4.5 billion last year. Japanese visits to South Korea have fallen five straight months to the lowest in ...
The number of foreigners visiting Japan continues to rebound from falls following the massive earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, but Japan-China territorial tensions are casting a shadow over tourism industry hopes that the trend will continue in 2013. According to the Japan National ...
Australia has resurrected its hugely popular Best Jobs in the World campaign, offering candidates the chance to become a “Chief Funster,” “Taste Master” or “Outback Adventurer.” The marketing push announced Tuesday is targeting the youth demographic, which contributes 12 billion Australian dollars ($12.2 billion) ...
The suspect in the Feb. 12 rampage on Guam that left three slain and several others wounded pleads not guilty by reason of mental illness.
The Japan Association of Travel Agents said Wednesday it will start certifying the service qualities of parties handling foreign tourists as part of efforts to boost visitors from abroad, whose numbers have fallen since the 2011 natural and nuclear disasters and recently reignited territorial ...
The government of Guam is desperate to keep Japanese coming to the island despite last week’s attack that left three tourists dead and 11 people wounded. “It goes without saying,” Antonio Muna of the Guam Visitors Bureau said when asked if the U.S. territory, ...
Officials in Osaka said Monday they will launch a bureau in April to boost tourism. The office will handle the overall tourism strategy for the municipal and prefectural governments. Its first chief will be Kunio Kano, a former Hong Kong Tourism Board official. The ...
Despite ongoing global economic uncertainty, international tourist arrivals exceeded 1 billion for the first time last year, with those numbers expected to rise further in 2013, a U.N. body said Tuesday. The number of arrivals grew by 4 percent to 1.035 billion in 2012, ...
The number of overseas visitors last year jumped an estimated 34.6 percent from 2011 to 8.368 million, the second-highest level on record, the Japan National Tourism Organization said. The figure, which fell short of the record 8.611 million travelers seen in 2010, shows Japan’s ...
Malaysia has been rated the world’s top Muslim-friendly holiday destination in a survey that listed Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Singapore as runners-up. The study released Wednesday by Singapore-based travel consultancy Crescentrating used criteria including the safety levels, the ease of ...
Chinese traveling to Japan from September to December plunged 44 percent from the year before to 190,000 as the feud over the Senkaku Islands heated up, the Immigration Bureau said in a preliminary report. “The number of Chinese tourists appears to have fallen because ...