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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 posting system is far from perfect, but is there a better solution? Currently, Japanese players, and due to a few contract quirks some foreign players such as Chunichi’s Chen Wei-yin, usually have two methods of taking their game to the MLB. They can ...
TOYOYAMA, Aichi Pref. — On a mild Sunday morning, a throng of enthusiastic baseball-playing youngsters were waiting for their turn, while some casual adults tried to have some fun hitting the ball at one local batting cage just outside Nagoya. The scenery is nothing ...
NAGOYA — Baseball fans in Nagoya bleed Dragon blue. Unlike other big cities, including Tokyo and Osaka, where fans of different teams are intermingled, baseball almost automatically means the Chunichi Dragons in this town. The people in Nagoya and in this region are said ...
CHIBA — Obviously, it’s too early to talk about who will be the Japan Series MVP award. But after watching the way the Marines sink the Chunichi Dragons in Tuesday’s Game 3, maybe it’s not too crazy to start arguing. So far, two of ...
CHIBA — The Marines had hopes for weeks to return to the warm cheers at home on a chilly November night. The Japan Series moved to an open-aired Chiba Marine Stadium on Tuesday, when Game 3 of the Japan Series was played between Chiba ...
NAGOYA — Having had the rare experience of collecting championship rings on both sides of the Pacific, Tadahito Iguchi knows what it takes to earn postseason victories. The 35-year-old infielder, who won a pair of Japan Series titles with the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks and ...
The Chunichi Dragons have their fair share of youth on the roster, but it was a group of veterans who helped them reach the Japan Series with a 4-3 win over the Yomiuri Giants in Game 4 of the Central League Climax Series on ...
For pitchers facing shortstops, usually the main worry is letting them get on base, where their speed can create problems. Against Hayato Sakamoto lately, just keeping the ball in the park can be considered a victory. In his third full season, the Yomiuri Giants ...
The Chunichi Dragons got off to a slow start but they’re sprinting toward the finish line. In the last month, the Dragons have snapped Tony Blanco out of an offensive funk, kept Kazuhiro Wada and Masahiko Morino playing at a high level, and watched ...
Good pitching trumps good hitting. That’s usually the rule of thumb come playoff time. But in the postseason, good pitching means having more than one good pitcher. After all, the ace can’t throw every game. The Hanshin Tigers already had a great pitcher in ...
Just call Chihiro Kaneko a late bloomer. The Orix Buffaloes hurler isn’t usually mentioned alongside Yu Darvish, Toshiya Sugiuchi, Tsuyoshi Wada and others as one of Japan’s top pitchers. Even so, none of the aforementioned pitchers can hold a candle to the numbers Kaneko ...
FUKUOKA — Craig Brazell didn’t care that he was almost left off the All-Star roster. All that mattered was when all the players were introduced prior Friday’s Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series Game 1, he was out there standing on the foul line alongside ...