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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.
The Democratic Party of Japan submitted a counterproposal Monday to the government’s postal privatization bills, pledging to abolish the postal life insurance and a postal deposit certificate system by Oct. 1, 2007. The House of Representatives will start deliberating both sets of bills in ...
The Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday unanimously endorsed the hotly contested postal privatization bills that triggered the Sept. 11 general election. The LDP won a landslide in the House of Representatives poll, apparently giving Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi a mandate to press ahead with ...
The Democratic Party of Japan on Tuesday formally endorsed new executives and a “shadow Cabinet” under newly elected leader Seiji Maehara, letting many junior members and those in the party’s middle ranks assume key posts. The launch of the new party leadership and shadow ...
The Democratic Party of Japan elected young conservative Seiji Maehara as its new president Saturday, passing over veteran former party leader Naoto Kan after suffering a devastating defeat in the House of Representatives election last week. Maehara, 43, defeated the 58-year-old Kan by a ...
Democratic Party of Japan heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa suggested Thursday he might run for the party presidency when the vote is taken Saturday, after the resignation of Katsuya Okada over the DPJ’s huge setback in Sunday’s general election. Seiji Maehara, a younger lawmaker who is ...
A day after being clobbered in Sunday’s general election, the Democratic Party of Japan said it will vote for a new party leader this weekend. Names bandied about as possible successors to Katsuya Okada include DPJ heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa as well as former party ...
GIFU — A showdown between two female candidates has all eyes fixed on this sleepy conservative city in the Chubu region. In the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election, former posts minister Seiko Noda, 45, is vying with economist Yukari Sato, 44, a carpetbagger ...
Ominous clouds hung over the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, New Komeito, on the eve of Tuesday’s start of official campaigning for the Sept. 11 general election. Former posts minister Eita Yashiro had just announced he would run as an ...
Democratic Party of Japan leader Katsuya Okada is calling for voters’ support in the Sept. 11 general election to bring about regime change and rebuild Japan in the face of ballooning government deficits and a rapidly aging population. “This is the first election in ...
Former posts minister Eita Yashiro declared Monday he will run as an independent in the Tokyo No. 12 district in the Sept. 11 general election and tendered his resignation from the Liberal Democratic Party, alleging he was betrayed by LDP executives. Yashiro’s move rattled ...
Yasuo Tanaka, head of the brand-new New Party Nippon, is aiming his party at building public hope for a brighter future by working at the local and prefectural level to wrest power from central administrative and political authorities. The five other members of the ...
The Social Democratic Party’s campaign for the Sept. 11 general election will be a continuation of its same platform: Japan must maintain its peace stance, SDP leader Mizuho Fukushima said Thursday. The SDP, a strong force a decade ago when then Socialist leader Tomiichi ...