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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.
Japanese alpinist Yuichiro Miura, who at 80 became the oldest person Thursday to reach the summit of Mount Everest, used a carefully structured scientific training regime and support from corporate sponsors and fans to achieve his goal. His ascent of the world’s highest peak has inspired more climbers aiming to ...
Tokyo Sea Life Park has begun exhibiting fry of the unique ocellated icefish, after successfully hatching eggs from a pair ...
Two South Korean former "comfort women" cancel their planned meeting with Nippon Ishin no Kaicoleader Toru Hashimoto, saying via a ...
Tokyo on Friday denied a South Korean media report that North Korea proposed to repatriate two Japanese abductees during a recent visit to Pyongyang by Isao Iijima, an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “That’s impossible. I have never been contacted (by the newspaper),” ...
There is a 60 to 70 percent chance that an earthquake registering magnitude 8 to 9 or above will occur along the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan within the next 30 years, a government panel said Friday. The expert panel also said ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been in office for five months and reporters who follow him every day still have one question: why hasn’t he moved into the Prime Minister’s Official Residence? Despite his extremely tight schedule, a security detail-escorted limousine takes Abe to ...
The Diet passes a bill for a system to assign an identification number to every citizen to improve government management of income, social security and tax information, despite public concerns about data abuse.
A secret mission to Pyongyang last fall by a close aide of then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda led to Japan-North Korea talks in Mongolia in mid-November amid disagreements over the abduction issue
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's adviser called on North Korea during his visit last week to set a "deadline" in bilateral talks aimed at resolving the thorny issue of the abductions of Japanese.
The list of those in and out of Japan, but especially in the United States, who scorn and deride Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto for his justification for the wartime “comfort women” is growing daily, presenting ...
Regulators are in the process of deciding which reactors are sitting on active faults, but the experts involved say there is clearly room for improvement. Fault exams at three nuclear power plants are proceeding in parallel. The first one to be finalized by an ...
People who overstayed their visas in Japan, along with their families and supporters, submitted a petition Friday to the Justice Ministry asking that it refrain from deporting those who have established their lives here. The 34-member group, organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
More women have joined the groups of men taking photos of landing and departing aircraft at Central Japan International Airport (Centrair). Given the nickname “Sorami” (Sky Beauties), these women — who own high-quality camera equipment typically used by professional photographers — are willing to ...
A director of the All Japan Judo Federation offered Friday to resign to take the blame for his unwanted sexual advance toward a top female athlete. Jiro Fukuda, 76, admitted that he forcibly hugged and tried to kiss the woman in a Tokyo subway ...
With the Diet endorsing the Hague Convention to help settle parental cross-border child abductions after years of lobbying by foreign governments and citizens, Japan is being urged to provide adequate support to parents and children separated through failed marriages. The 1980 Hague Convention on ...