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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.
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi paid a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Thursday, and the two agreed education of the young is key to the country’s future development, Japanese officials said. It is the first time that ...
Visiting NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen signed a joint declaration Monday in Tokyo pledging expanded bilateral cooperation in disaster relief, counterterrorism, nonproliferation and maritime security, particularly measures against piracy. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Rasmussen inked the four-page statement during a ceremony at the ...
U.S. State Secretary John Kerry tells top officials in Tokyo that Washington is committed to defending Japan and South Korea against North Korea.
Tokyo and Washington conclude preparatory negotiations over Japan's entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, allowing the U.S. to keep tariffs on Japanese autos.
The Defense Ministry has deployed Patriot PAC-3 antimissile air defense units to three Self-Defense Forces installations, in Tokyo and Chiba, to defend against possible North Korean missile strikes, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday. The PAC-3 units were deployed to the Defense Ministry’s ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his condolences over the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Monday, saying she was “a great statesperson” who devoted herself to her state and her people. “We share the deep sorrow of the British people,” Abe ...
Visiting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto expressed his support for Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks Monday in Tokyo, signing a joint statement with Prime Minster Shinzo Abe to further expand the bilateral relationship between the two countries. Mexico is the seventh ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his condolences over the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Monday, saying she was “a great statesperson” who devoted herself to her state and her people. “We share the deep sorrow of the British people,” Abe ...
The Test of English as a Foreign Language will be needed to enter public universities and graduate from them if the LDP's educational reforms are formalized.
Tokyo and Washington agree on a road map for the reversion of five U.S. military facilities in Okinawa south of the Kadena base and vow to accelerate the handover.
English-language education at public schools should shift in emphasis to verbal communications skills, and for that purpose, universities must adopt the Test of English as a Foreign Language for entrance exams, the head of the Liberal Democratic Party’s education reform panel said. If the ...
Former Yomiuri Giants sluggers Shigeo Nagashima and Hideki Matsui are slated to get the dubious People’s Honor Award, often criticized as a political tool of the government.