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NTT DoCoMo Inc., despite being Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier, has been struggling against tough smartphone competition from KDDI Corp. and Softbank Corp., which is leading in that area. But one edge that the cellphone behemoth — it has more than 60 million subscribers ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
The 27-year-old defender says he was ready for a change of scenery after helping Sanfrecce Hiroshima win theJ. League title last season.
J. League fans will be sorry he did not stick around longer, but there can be no denying the opportunity facing Takashi Usami as he prepares to begin a six-month loan spell at Bayern Munich. Usami on Monday confirmed Japanese soccer’s worst-kept secret when ...
Substitute Yu Kobayashi pounced with virtually the last kick of the game to complete a remarkable turnaround for 10-man Kawasaki Frontale in a 2-2 draw with Kashima Antlers on Saturday night. First-half goals from Yuzo Tashiro and Koji Nakata looked to have put Antlers ...
After the upheaval of an offseason transfer to Kawasaki Frontale, Koji Yamase is happy to see his new team occupy familiar ground near the top of the J. League table. Kawasaki has recovered from an indifferent start to go into Saturday’s game against Kashima ...
Gamba Osaka cut Kashiwa Reysol’s cushion at the top of the J. League to one point with a breathless 4-2 win over the league leaders on Wednesday night. Junya Tanaka gave Kashiwa a 10th-minute lead with his sixth goal of the season at Hitachi ...
Eddy Bosnar struck a pair of thunderbolt free kicks and Naohiro Takahara returned to haunt his former team as Shimizu S-Pulse beat Urawa Reds 3-1 on Saturday night to keep the 2006 J. League champions mired near the foot of the table. Reds went ...
An impressive start from the less-fancied teams while the big guns struggled gave the early J. League table something of an upside-down appearance. Few expected it to last, but with almost a third of the season played, the underdogs continue to bark the loudest. ...
Jubilo Iwata brought Kashiwa Reysol crashing back to earth with a comprehensive 3-0 thrashing of the J. League leaders on Wednesday night. Hidetaka Kanazono put an end to Kashiwa’s run of four consecutive clean sheets to give Jubilo a 20th-minute lead at Hitachi Stadium, ...
J. League leader Kashiwa Reysol gave another example of their growing championship credentials with a comfortable 2-0 win over Yokohama F.Marinos on Saturday. Reysol went into the match with a three-point lead at the top of the table after six wins and a draw ...
National team manager Alberto Zaccheroni insists he will not remain slavishly wedded to a 3-4-3 formation despite declaring himself more than satisfied with its unveiling at the Kirin Cup this week. Japan drew 0-0 with the Czech Republic on Tuesday night after playing out ...
Japan drew 0-0 with the Czech Republic on Tuesday as the three-game Kirin Cup tournament ended without a single goal being scored. The competition gave Japan its first fixtures on home soil since winning the Asian Cup in Qatar in January, but Alberto Zaccheroni’s ...
Junya Tanaka scored two first-half goals and Leandro Domingues added another to extend Kashiwa Reysol’s lead at the top of the J. League to three points with a 3-0 win over Vissel Kobe on Saturday. Vissel went into the match at Hitachi Stadium on ...
Not many people expected to see Kashiwa Reysol leading the J. League with May drawing to a close, but club captain Hideaki Kitajima sees no reason why the bubble should burst any time soon. After winning the second division title at a canter last ...