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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
Exit polls show former Shimonoseki Mayor Kiyoshi Ejima clinching a by-election in Yamaguchi Prefecture, tying the LDP with the DPJ in the House of Councilors.
Official campaigning for the April 28 Upper House by-election in Yamaguchi Prefecture begins, with Democratic Party of Japan-backed ex-Justice Minister Hideo Hiraoka challenging a Liberal Democratic Party newcomer.
Famed anthropologist Masao Yamaguchi died of pneumonia at a hospital in Mitaka, western Tokyo, early Sunday. He was 81. After graduating from the department of Japanese history at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Letters, Yamaguchi studied anthropology at the graduate school of now-defunct ...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping expressed his willingness Friday to improve relations with Japan despite the strain over the Senkaku Islands. In a meeting with visiting New Komeito chief Natsuo Yamaguchi, Xi said he would “seriously consider” Yamaguchi’s proposal that Japan and China hold high-level ...
China is closely watching what kind of action the new government in Tokyo will take to improve soured relations, former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan told New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi during his current visit to Beijing. “No one wishes to see a deterioration ...
New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi arrived in China Tuesday for a four-day visit in a bid to mend bilateral ties strained over control over the Senkaku Islands, hoping to meet China’s incoming president, Xi Jinping. The head of the junior coalition partner of the ...