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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.
CHIBA — Prime Minister Naoto Kan was rumored Thursday to have two key changes in mind for his looming Cabinet reshuffle, sources said. One will replace Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku with his Democratic Party of Japan’s deputy secretary general, Yukio Edano. The other ...
Prime Minister Naoto Kan is preparing to reshuffle his Cabinet and the ruling Democratic Party of Japan’s executive lineup Friday, DPJ sources said Wednesday. Kan hopes to have the Diet convene an ordinary session on Jan. 24, but it remains uncertain if the opposition ...
During a live Internet interview Friday, Prime Minister Naoto Kan lamented over little his tireless efforts are appreciated by the public. Kan is the first prime minister to appear in an online program live — an apparent effort to reach out to Internet users, ...
All eyes were fixed Thursday on the fate of Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku after Prime Minister Naoto Kan hinted that his right-hand man might have to leave the Cabinet to break an impasse with the opposition camp. Kan faces a dilemma. If he ...
Surrounded by record players and speakers that he designed and built on his own, Takeshi Teragaki, 86, a renowned sound system engineer, began to talk about how he first became intrigued by audio players. An interviewer set up a small digital video camera to ...
Opposition parties shouldn’t boycott Diet deliberations attended by two key ministers targeted by nonbinding censure motions in the Upper House in November, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku, one of those singled out, said Wednesday. “If they boycott Diet deliberations because of the censure motions ...
In the seven months Prime Minister Naoto Kan has been in office he has defeated Democratic Party of Japan heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa in the party’s presidential election, dealt with an aggressive and confrontational China over the Senkaku Islands row and repaired ties with the ...
When it comes to finding a place to park the kiddies for the day, working parents generally have two options: kindergartens and day care facilities. Kindergartens take in children from age 3 and are open for about four hours. Day care centers provide up ...
YOKOHAMA — Foreign and trade ministers meeting in Yokohama on Wednesday agreed to fend off protectionism by extending an existing ban on new trade barriers among member states by at least three years, until 2013. The Pacific Rim ministers, meeting for two days ahead ...
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan endorsed a ¥5.05 trillion stimulus package Friday aimed at propping up an economy hampered by deflation and the surging yen. The stimulus package is projected to add about 0.6 percent to economic output and create or retain ...
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Friday he will consider drafting a supplementary budget over the next few months to cope with the rising yen and pump up the economy. “I will eye drafting the supplementary budget by the end of the year,” Kan said ...
Takarazuka Revue Co., Japan’s all-female musical troupe, is a love-it or hate-it theatrical landmark. Some just can’t take the heavy makeup and sugary plot lines. But enthusiasts, mostly women, wholeheartedly devote their money, time and energy to the troupe just like teen groupies chasing ...