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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.
The Wolf is howling now. Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho came within one victory of etching his name in sumo’s “Hall of Fame” alongside former yokozuna great Chiyonofuji on Friday with a demolition of Georgian Tochinoshin on the fifth day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament ...
Daiki Kamikawa and Mika Sugimoto won the men’s and women’s open weight categories, respectively, giving Japan 10 gold medals for its best result ever on the final day of the world judo championships in Tokyo on Monday. Japan, which was hosting the meet in ...
Yoshie Ueno beat Miki Tanaka in an all-Japanese women’s 63-kg final at the world judo championships Saturday, marking an auspicious occasion in appropriate fashion with the defense of her title as host Japan claimed its 100th overall gold medal since the tournament began in ...
Daiki Nishiyama failed to conquer Athens Olympic champion Ilias Iliadis in the men’s 90-kg final Friday, leaving Japan’s men without a top podium finish on the second day of action at the World Judo Championships. After just two days, the men have more medals ...
NAGOYA — Just call him superman. A day after capturing his 15th career title, Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho capped off a stellar performance with a superhuman feat against ozeki Baruto on Sunday, making him the only man in the history of sumo to win three ...
NAGOYA — Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho clinched his 15th career title in anticlimactic fashion at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Saturday. But he still got an extra bonus of extending his miraculous winning streak to 46 bouts to place him alone in third on ...
NAGOYA — Former grand champion Musashimaru has no pity for the likes of Kotomitsuki, the ozeki recently banned for life from sumo after he admitted gambling on pro baseball games. The American Samoan, the second foreign-born wrestler to reach sumo’s top rank of yokozuna ...
NAGOYA — Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho had to hold off his title celebrations at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Friday, despite handily beating Bulgarian ozeki Kotooshu to match the third-longest winning streak in sumo history. Hakuho, who is the only undefeated wrestler at 13-0, ...
NAGOYA — Mongolian grand champion Hakuho moved within one win of matching former yokozuna great Taiho’s 45-bout winning streak on Thursday, overpowering rank-and-filer Kitataiki on the 12th day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament. The lone yokozuna, who is the only undefeated wrestler at ...
NAGOYA — At this point there are few, if any, left from the tattered ranks who can stop Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho as he zeroes in on his 15th career title in sole possession of the lead at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament. After handing ...
NAGOYA — Mongolian grand champion Hakuho escaped his biggest scare thus far, warding off a fierce challenge from sekiwake Kisenosato to remain in a share of the lead on the 10th day of action at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday. The lone ...
NAGOYA — Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho devoured in-form countryman Kakuryu in a comfortable win on Monday, retaining his share of the lead at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament. Hakuho improved to 9-0 at the 15-day meet and sits in a tie with surprise package Homasho. ...