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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 recent volatility of the Nikkei 225 stock average should not be a cause for alarm, government officials assured Friday, but pundits pointed out that “Abenomics” seems to have a long way to go until the economy begins to show a robust and steady recovery. While downplaying the key index’s ...
The Bank of Japan’s aggressive monetary easing steps are working to achieve an exit from more than a decade of ...
The Federal Reserve is torn over when to slow its aggressive efforts to stimulate the economy. Its uncertainty burst into ...
The man charged with reviving France’s shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest there is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite. As the country’s first-ever minister for industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg has told the world’s largest steelmaker it is not welcome in France; ...
Japan on Wednesday posted its worst April trade deficit as a weak yen ramped up import costs and helped extend the run of monthly shortfalls to the longest in over three decades. Data from the Finance Ministry showed the nation incurred a trade deficit ...
The government on Monday upgraded the economy for the first time in two months by deleting the word “weak” from its description to reflect the effect the “Abenomics”-weakened yen is having on exports and production. The economy “is picking up slowly,” the Cabinet Office ...
The yen climbed versus a majority of its 16 major peers after economy minister Akira Amari said further losses in the currency would negatively affect the people, and the government’s job is to minimize that. The yen retreated from near its weakest point in ...
The chairman and other executives of Keidanren plan to tour the battered Fukushima No. 1 power plant, the influential business lobby said Monday. The corporate executives are making the trip so the group, also called the Japan Business Federation, can make policy recommendations to ...
Two mind-sets seem to be catching on in Japan these days. They worry me. One is the notion that something has to be useful to be of value. The other is that anything is justifiable on the grounds that everybody else is doing it. ...
Budding growth in the Japanese economy, just as a recession in Europe digs in, is renewing pressure on European policymakers to shift course from austerity to stimulus. Data released on Thursday said that Japan’s economy grew markedly in the first quarter, only weeks after ...
Japan’s government must demonstrate a commitment to fiscal rehabilitation to boost the credibility of government bonds and prevent a spike in long-term yields as soaring stocks damp the allure of the nation’s sovereign debt, Economy Minister Akira Amari said. “As stocks have rallied this ...
Investors are more confident in a Japanese leader than any time since at least September 2010, with optimism about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policies exceeding that for counterparts in the U.S., Europe and China. The number of respondents who are more optimistic than pessimistic ...
Core private-sector machinery orders jump a seasonally adjusted 14.2 percent, indicating the weaker yen and higher stocks are starting to prompt companies to boost investment.
The economy enjoys a stronger than expected recovery, growing at a 3.5 percent annual pace as the government stepped up public works spending and eased credit to encourage investment.
The 11 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations began their 17th round of talks in Lima on Wednesday with the focus on whether exceptions should be made to the general rule of tariff elimination. Even though Japan gained the unanimous backing of ...