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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.
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 — still holds is in research ...
The recent volatility of the Nikkei 225 stock average should not be a cause for alarm, government officials assured Friday, ...
The Bank of Japan’s aggressive monetary easing steps are working to achieve an exit from more than a decade of ...
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said Thursday it is “imperative” that Europe’s leaders create a new agency with powers to restructure busted banks to help the region leave its economic and financial crisis behind once and for all. In the text of a ...
Relatively mundane city management issues, from parking to water use, are going high-tech as cities seek to use analytics and information to improve their operations. Companies are pushing this kind of work, arguing it can improve city services and operations while lowering costs or ...
Japan Atomic Power Co., operator of the idled Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, said Friday its group sales in the year that ended in March grew 4.3 percent from a year earlier to ¥152.43 billion, even though it failed to generate any electricity. ...
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.
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 ...
The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu — East Africa’s version of CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer — cheers on what Satchu says is a growing sentiment among investors: If you’re not investing in Africa, you should be. Or as ...
Japanese government bonds fell Thursday, with 10-year rates touching 1 percent for the first time in a year, on speculation the U.S. Federal Reserve will curb stimulus and the Bank of Japan will tolerate an increase in yields. Japan’s five-year note rate matched the ...
Japan’s number two carmaker, Nissan, said Thursday it would recall some 841,000 compacts worldwide due to a steering wheel problem. The recall will cover the Micra, known as the March in some markets, and Cube models produced in Japan and Britain between 2002 and ...
European leaders on Wednesday targeted a yearend deadline to do away with banking secrecy, hoping to recoup €1 trillion in lost tax each year to help beat recession and unemployment. However, British Prime Minister and current Group of Eight chair David Cameron, backed by ...
The nation’s main breweries are trying to raise sales of premium beer over cheap quasi-beer as consumer sentiment improves with the stock market upturn. Premium beer has been locked in a battle with cheaper “third-segment” beers known for their low to no malt content. ...
Think tanks agree it will be difficult for the Bank of Japan to attain its 2 percent inflation target in about two years, with the nation’s economic growth seen slowing down markedly in fiscal 2014 after the planned consumption tax hike. The average estimate ...