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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.
With the whereabouts of 10 of the 17 Japanese taken hostage at a gas complex in Algeria still unknown, the government desperately tries to gather more information.
Amid conflicting reports Friday about casualties among foreigners who were taken hostage at a natural gas complex in Algeria, the government and JGC Corp. confirmed the safety of seven Japanese workers but said 10 others were still missing. A senior official said one of ...
A political showdown is approaching as the two ruling parties continue talks to nail down details of tax reform by their self-imposed deadline of Jan. 24, in particular over whether daily essentials such as food should be exempt from the planned hike in the ...
Tokyo on Thursday moved quickly to reaffirm official policy calling for the return of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, a day after former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori suggested a compromise that would leave one in Moscow’s hands. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga reiterated the ...
Beijing may be testing the patience of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has recently kept his hawkish streak in check as he instead focuses on domestic economic measures. On Monday and Tuesday, four Chinese maritime survey ships stayed inside Japan’s territorial waters around the ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s hopes of visiting the United States this month to meet President Barack Obama and demonstrate Japan’s dedication to bilateral security ties appear likely to be dashed by scheduling conflicts that will push his trip back to February or later, Chief ...
Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada officially declared Friday she will step down as head of the small political group Nippon Mirai no To (Tomorrow Party of Japan), apologizing to her constituents “for having caused worries” and pledging to “solely focus” on her gubernatorial duties. Kada ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet will maintain the Diet-endorsed 1995 apology issued by then-Prime Minister Tomoiichi Murayama over Japan’s wartime aggression, but offer a separate “future-oriented” statement, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a group of reporters Friday. Many observers were watching to see ...
Whoever is appointed Bank of Japan governor in April should be able to communicate well with the markets and share a keen sense of crisis with the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, new economic revitalization minister Akira Amari said. “It’s very important that ...
While nearly 300 Liberal Democratic Party candidates nationwide rejoiced over their resounding success in the Dec. 16 Lower House election, the mood of some at party headquarters was more sober. The countdown board showing the days leading up to the election was immediately replaced ...
The members of Nippon Mirai no To (Tomorrow Party of Japan) agreed Thursday to split the antinuclear party as strife emerged over who should lead it following its meltdown in the Dec. 16 Lower House election. Nippon Mirai is expected to break into a ...
The lineup of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet seems to underline his determination to learn from his mistakes. During his first run as prime minister from 2006 to 2007, Abe concentrated mainly on diplomacy and patriotism, even though the public was clearly focused on ...