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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.
Away from the glitzy buildings of Ginza’s main crossing, behind a drab frontage down a nondescript side street, sits a wine bar that really stands out from the crowd. In contrast to the majority of Tokyo’s wine bars, Cheese and Wine Salon Murase embraces ...
Last month saw the Washington Wine Commission host the Taste Washington event, which showcased wines from 45 wineries in the region. For the event in Ebisu at the Westin Hotel’s Galaxy Ballroom on Jan. 29, wine enthusiasts gathered from all over Tokyo eager to ...
Fashion photographer Aram Dikiciyan recognizes that his work is hard to define. “I can’t really decide if I’m a fashion photographer or an artist,” he explains over coffee in Tokyo’s fashionable Omotesando district. Our cozy table in this chic Parisian- style cafe overlooks a ...
Fashion photographer Aram Dikiciyan recognizes that his work is hard to define. “I can’t really decide if I’m a fashion photographer or an artist,” he explains over coffee in Tokyo’s fashionable Omotesando district. Our cozy table in this chic Parisian- style cafe overlooks a ...
T he bed at the Reef View hotel on Hamilton Island is so large that I can’t resist executing several flamboyant somersaults across its width, after which I unpack, flinging my belongings about the gigantic room in wild abandon. Used to the confines of ...
T he bed at the Reef View hotel on Hamilton Island is so large that I can’t resist executing several flamboyant somersaults across its width, after which I unpack, flinging my belongings about the gigantic room in wild abandon. Used to the confines of ...
The image most people have of Japanese wine is of the ¥500 plonk sitting next to the synthetic beer and sickly sweet chu-hi cocktails on the shelves of their local convenience store; of the cheap and decidedly dismal stuff of lost weekends and discarded ...
Enotecawww.enoteca.co.jp If you are looking for the best site to find a bargain, this is the place to go. Enoteca imports wine directly to Japan, so you can avoid heavy in-store price markups. Free shipping is offered on selected items, and if you add ...
What with the terrible economic climate and those cold winds blowing down from Siberia, it makes sense to weather out this winter snuggled up in a warm blanket with a nice bottle of red wine and a good novel. In this spirit, we’ve made ...
On the cover of her latest album, “Un Dia,” Juana Molina’s face is distorted beyond all recognition; the effect is both intriguing and disturbing. “If it’s your face (on the album) you would like to be pretty,” the singer/songwriter tells me over the phone ...
“A man’s approach to drinking is totally different from a woman’s: Men think about color, what grapes were used, compare the taste and consider its place of origin. Women think about what kind of food a wine will go well with, where we might ...
A delicate, thin skin, in constant need of attention, sensitive to extremes of climate: The Pinot Noir is the pampered princess of grape varieties. Until recently, she only truly blossomed in the gentle cool climate of Burgundy and most especially on the Cote d’Or. ...