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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.
For Antoni Slodkowski's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
At 6:44 p.m. on July 15, Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Seiji Osaka posed a question on his Twitter profile: “I think bringing the voting age down to 18 years old is OK. What do you think about it?” Within 10 days, 198 users ...
Naotaka Ikura, 24 Administration (Japanese) Cuts in bonuses didn’t affect me at all this summer. I’m in administration, so I was lucky. Perhaps other people had their bonuses cut. Sou On, 16 Student (China) Speaking to my Japanese friends, I can tell that Japan ...
A two-day job fair in Tokyo for bilingual Japanese and foreign students is seeing a sharp drop in participating employers this year amid the nation’s worst postwar recession, the organizer said Tuesday. The number of companies fell from 184 last year to 89, according ...
Samuel David Ellard, 29 Music shop owner (U.K.) After Jackson’s death, every second person that came into my shop asked about his records. I think he was a talented musician, but I’m not the greatest fan of his work. Nguyen Duy Srederie, 26 Systems ...
Kaori Ahara, 20 (Japanese) I think it’s normal. When I look at them I feel energized. They look very cute and lively at the same time, just as children should be. Mario Talamo, 28 (Italian) It’s crazy! I feel very sorry for them when ...
About 200 people attended a rally Saturday near the Iranian Embassy in Tokyo to protest the alleged rigging of the Iranian presidential election. The gathering consisted mostly of Iranian residents of Japan, including an informal group of Iranian university students, researchers, business owners and ...