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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.
Antinuclear activists camping out at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry refused to take down their tents Friday despite an order to do so by 5 p.m. Hundreds of people meanwhile came to see the three tents around the deadline, apparently to show ...
Most are faded or discolored by seawater and the elements. About 1,500 photos found in the aftermath of the March 11 tsunami — snaps of daily life, such as small children at play and friends gathered around a dinner table — are on display ...
One major mystery — and a source of serious concern — at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is the exact location of the molten fuel from reactors 1, 2 and 3. Hindered by the dangerously high radiation coming from the melted rods, Tokyo ...
Olympus Corp. President Shuichi Takayama, one of the defendants in a suit over the firm’s massive hidden losses, said Wednesday he will stay at his post until the second half of April, when the company will hold a shareholders’ meeting. Takayama’s announcement came as ...
Education experts have for years been lamenting the academic decline of young Japanese. Teachers have complained that an increasing number of college students lack even the basics that should have been driven home in junior high school. Students’ math and science skills have markedly ...
Former Olympus Corp. President and CEO Michael C. Woodford said Friday in Tokyo he will give up his proxy fight to regain the top job in the medical equipment and camera maker because of lack of support from Japanese shareholders and trauma suffered by ...
Omron Software Co. has developed a smartphone application that translates short English, Korean and Chinese written phrases into Japanese in less than a second. The company aims to have the software, useful for translating billboards, road signs and menus, preinstalled on new smartphones and ...
The March disasters generated an outpouring of volunteerism unseen since — let alone matched by — what followed the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. From Tohoku to Tokyo, the impact of March 11 shook the country to its foundations. Skyscrapers wobbled like jelly in the ...
Olympus Corp. said Wednesday all of its current board members will step down and new independent committees will determine the specific involvement of former and current executives in the company’s coverup of huge losses. At a news conference in Tokyo, President Shuichi Takayama said ...
“Nadeshiko Japan,” the nickname of the women’s national soccer team, has been awarded a high-profile prize for being the No. 1 buzzword of the year. A selection panel of U-can Inc., an education and career support company, every year chooses 10 buzzwords for the ...
The recent visit by Bhutan’s king and queen helped raise the country’s profile in Japan and even spurred interest in travel to the country, but few Japanese seem to be aware that Bhutan, often portrayed as an idyllic Himalayan getaway, has forced more than ...
Tsuneo Watanabe, chairman and chief editor of the Yomiuri Shimbun who doubles as chairman of the Yomiuri Giants baseball team, is one of the most influential figures in Japan as he reigns not only over the nation’s biggest media empire but also acts as ...