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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
The Nikkei 225 average climbed for the fourth straight session Wednesday on the heels of gains in overseas stocks overnight, ending at its highest level in nearly 65 months. The Nikkei closed up 246.24 points, or 1.60 percent, at 15,627.26, its best finish since ...
U.S. teenagers are sharing more information about themselves on social-media sites, but taking steps to protect their privacy online, a study showed Tuesday. The new survey showed 91 percent of those surveyed posted a photo of themselves, up from 79 percent in 2006; 71 ...
The dollar was stuck in a narrow range around ¥102.80 in Tokyo trading Wednesday as a wait-and-see mood grew before U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s closely watched congressional testimony later in the day. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥102.79-80, up from ...
Chubu Electric Power Co. plans to establish a joint special purpose company with Tokyo Electric Power Co. to build and operate a coal-fired power plant, industry sources said Wednesday. Chubu is expected to shoulder most of the construction cost for the 600,000-kw plant, which ...
Microsoft unveils the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies, sports and other entertainment.
Lean and focused would be a good way to characterize the recently launched lineups from Japan’s three top cellphone carriers.
Reinvigorated technology player Yahoo on Monday unveiled a dusted-off design of its Flickr photo platform only hours after the company’s dramatic acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, maintaining her ambition was to make Flickr “awesome again,” said the new site will ...
Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda took the steering wheel in the Nurburgring 24-hour endurance race through Monday in western Germany, with his team finishing second in its class, the automaker said. Toyoda teamed with three professional drivers to race a Lexus LF-A in ...
Japan’s earnings season has drawn to a close with the sharply weaker yen helping inflate profit at some of the nation’s top exporters, but, warn some commentators, the drop is not all good news. Sony booked its first annual profit in five years, Toyota ...
Softbank Corp. plans to sell ¥400 billion in bonds targeting individual investors to fund its $20.1 billion purchase of Sprint Nextel Corp. The mobile phone company will price the five-year notes to yield from 1.25 percent to 2.25 percent on June 3, according to ...
EXHIBITIONS Summer pearl jewelry Jewelry designer Hiroko Matoba will hold an exhibition of her summer pearl collection, “Enchanting Pearl Jewelry Selection,” from Wednesday to May 28 at the Jewelry Salon Design Gallery on the sixth floor of the Takashimaya department store in the Nihonbashi ...
Japan Post Holdings Co. plans to name four people from the business community, including Canon Inc. President and Chairman Fujio Mitarai, 77, as outside board directors under its new management team to be launched shortly. The three others are Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal ...