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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.
After nose-diving 1,143 points, or 7.3 percent, Thursday, the Nikkei 225 stock average rebounded more than 2.6 percent in morning trading Friday as investors were soothed by the dollar’s uptick and limited falls on Wall Street following sound U.S. economic gauges. The key index ...
Tokyo's Nikkei stock index falls more than 7 percent to end below 14,500 as selling triggered by weak Chinese data outpaced sharp gains made earlier.
Two men with butcher knives hack a man to death near a London military barracks, and one of them then goes on video, shouting political statements and waving a meat cleaver.
The White House admits it killed four Americans in overseas counterterrorism operations since 2009, the first time it has publicly taken responsibility for the deaths.
Three Japanese historians on Thursday visited the South Korean-controlled Takeshima islets claimed by Japan to carry out on-site research, a member of the group said. While dozens of people, including Japanese, are believed to visit Takeshima, called Dokdo in South Korea, for sightseeing every ...
Seventy-five percent of the world’s tornados occur in the U.S., yet few people who live in “Tornado Alley” bother with the trouble and expense of a proper shelter from the storms. Mel Evridge, 69, a retired builder who experienced both Monday’s twister in his ...
The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation.
LeBron James caught the inbounds pass, changed direction and immediately attacked the rim. There was no one in his way. There was no stopping him, either. James made a layup as time expired in overtime, capping a 30-point, 10-rebound, 10-assist effort as the Miami ...
Sidney Crosby was careful not to get too far ahead of himself after helping the Pittsburgh Penguins rout the Ottawa Senators for a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series. “I’m not talking about anything ahead of Game 5,” the Pittsburgh captain said ...
Los Angeles has elected its next mayor: City Councilman Eric Garcetti, a Latino who will also become the city’s first Jewish leader when he takes office. With all precincts reporting Wednesday, the city councilman grabbed 54 percent of the votes against his fellow Democrat, ...
The Federal Reserve is torn over when to slow its aggressive efforts to stimulate the economy. Its uncertainty burst into view Wednesday, when Chairman Ben Bernanke testified to the U.S. Congress in the morning and the Fed released the minutes of its last policy ...