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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.
Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday, but amid the celebrations, the “B-word” — Bollywood — remains controversial. The French film festival has rolled out the red carpet for Indian cinema this year, with events including a gala dinner and screening Sunday of “Bombay Talkies,” a ...
A blistering heat wave has swept across most parts of north and western India, causing massive blackouts and leading angry ...
An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years ...
A North Korean envoy on the second day of his fence-mending visit to ally China heeded Beijing’s wishes by offering to renew nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media reported. The accounts depicted Thursday’s meeting between North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae and Chinese ...
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 ...
For 20 years, fears about North Korea’s headlong pursuit of nuclear bombs have been deflected by admonishments not to overestimate an impoverished dictatorship prone to bragging and tantrums. Not anymore. After three nuclear tests of apparently increasing power and a long-range rocket launch that ...
A handful of marines living on a World War II-era ship grounded on a remote, tiny reef is the Philippines’ last line of defense against China’s efforts to control most of the South China Sea. The soldiers are stationed on Second Thomas Shoal in ...
China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the U.N. force seeking to contain Islamist militants in Mali in what would be its biggest contribution to U.N. peacekeeping in history. The move could be a bid to overcome tensions with the West ...
Thai authorities have arrested an Italian wanted over alleged links to a human trafficking ring that swindled around $10 million from European taxpayers and banks, officials said Thursday. Stefano Raccagni, 38, is wanted in Italy on suspicion of being part of a 12-strong Milan-based ...
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was considering taking legal action against tech giants such as Twitter, Google and Facebook for infringing copyright on a security measure he invented. Dotcom, who is on bail in New Zealand as U.S. authorities seek his extradition ...
One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout Thursday across about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of its power grid. State electricity company EVN said the blackout occurred Wednesday after the crane operator knocked a tree down onto the ...
A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan racked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police said. The attack on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan Province, also wounded ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatches a high-profile official and close confidant to China at a time of strained relations and ahead of a China-U.S. summit.
If you’re American and want to do business in Myanmar, there’s a list of people and companies you have to steer clear of by law. But it leaves off a former minister’s son that U.S. officials suspected of brokering arms deals with North Korea, ...
The U.S. and Myanmar struck a trade agreement Tuesday as the former pariah state undertakes economic reforms and seeks greater American investment. The Trade and Investment Framework Agreement is aimed at promoting bilateral dialogue and cooperation on trade and investment issues, the United States ...