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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
Yusei Kikuchi was nearly untouchable with his heater over eight strong innings as the Seibu Lions defeated the Hanshin Tigers 5-1 in an interleague matchup on Monday. The Lions roared in a five-run fourth to send Hanshin starter Jason Standridge to an early shower, and Pacific League ERA leader Kikuchi ...
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles ace Masahiro Tanaka surrendered a leadoff homer in the first inning but did little wrong after ...
The Hanshin Tigers beat the Seibu Lions 10-5 on Sunday in a battle of pitching aces that saw precious little ...
Shinnosuke Abe hit a game-tying homer to lead off the sixth inning, and the go-ahead run scored on an error by Hideto Asamura in the 10th inning as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Seibu Lions 2-1 in a walk-off in their interleague game on ...
It takes a lot to stop the Yomiuri Giants once they get on a roll. A whole lot more than Ryoma Nogami and the Seibu Lions had Friday night. Shinnosuke Abe put the Giants ahead with a three-run home run in the third inning, ...
Pitcher Shohei Otani, who turned down his chance to sign with a major league club out of high school to join the Nippon Ham Fighters, will make his pitching debut on May 23, manager Hideki Kuriyama announced Thursday. The 19-year-old right-hander, who was heavily ...
Hisayoshi Chono delivered a two-run, ninth-inning double to lift the Yomiuri Giants to 5-4 walk-off interleague win over the Chiba Lotte Marines on Wednesday. The Giants, who last year became the first Central League team to win the annual interleague championship, blew a 3-0 ...
Seth Greisinger will make his first start of the season on Wednesday at Tokyo Dome. Not that it matters all that much to the Chiba Lotte Marines right-hander, who is embarking on his seventh year in Japan. After battling his way back from an ...
The Chiba Lotte Marines established themselves as the top team in the Pacific League during the first portion of the PL schedule. Opening night of the interleague season revealed manager Tsutomu Ito’s club might be aiming a little higher than that. Shunichi Nemoto hit ...
Giants ace Tetsuya Utsumi pitched what he called his best game of the season on Sunday, going nine scoreless innings and earning the win as Yomiuri defeated the Yokohama BayStars 1-0 in 10 innings. The Giants were forced to work overtime for their second ...
The natural inclination is to ask Matt Murton what’s changed. To find out how, exactly, he went from the lows of an often tumultuous 2012 campaign, to hitting just about everything in sight early this year. There were few hitters more consistent than Murton ...
Tadashi Settsu pitched two-run ball over seven innings, Yuya Hasegawa hit a two-run homer to key a six-run sixth, and the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks snapped a five-game losing skid with a 10-3 come-from-behind rout of the Seibu Lions on Saturday. Toru Hosokawa’s RBI single ...
To say the Hanshin Tigers have been successful against the Yomiuri Giants is a somewhat of a misnomer. It’s probably more accurate to say the Tigers have owned the Giants in the early part of the season. Refer to the 2004 ALCS when Boston ...
Kazuya Fujita’s three-run double off Chiba Lotte closer Naoya Masuda on Friday lifted the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles to a 5-3 come-from-behind victory over the Marines in a battle between the Pacific League’s two hottest teams. Protecting a one-run lead in the ninth, Masuda ...
Takashi Ogino had the chance to be the hero with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the 11th inning. It would’ve been fitting too, with the Chiba Lotte Marines star playing in his second game of the season, after missing ...