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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.
Becoming a flight attendant is the dream of many young women, but the rigorous standards and high competition often thwart their plans. The expansion of low-cost carriers, however, is making it easier to pursue that dream because LCCs’ requirements for the job are lower ...
A little over 46 percent of the public has never flown on a low-cost carrier and has no plans to, with older people among the most reluctant, a survey says. More than 65 percent of those 60 or older said they have no plans ...
A French court on Thursday ordered Air France to pay a ?10,000 ($12,800) fine for having ordered a pro-Palestinian activist off a flight to Tel Aviv because she was not Jewish. The court also ordered the French flagship carrier to pay ?3,000 in damages ...
Two Airbus A380s made a dramatic tandem flight Sunday over the Sydney Harbour Bridge to launch the new Qantas-Emirates partnership, hailed by the Australian carrier as a “seismic shift” in aviation. The tieup, approved last week by Australia’s competition watchdog, allows the two airlines ...
Mohammed Rashed, who placed a bomb that damaged a Pan Am jet over the Pacific in 1982, killing a Japanese high schooler, was released from federal prison Wednesday, a U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman said. “He was released early this morning,” Chris Burke ...
All Nippon Airways Co., Japan’s largest airline by sales, is looking for acquisitions and partnerships abroad, with an eye particularly on India and Thailand, after raising $1.8 billion in a share sale last year to expand. “We’re considering various options, including acquisitions or collaboration ...
European aerospace giant Airbus was set to sign Monday what would mark one of its biggest orders ever from Indonesia’s Lion Air for more than 200 A320 medium-haul jets, business daily Les Echos reported. The deal is expected to be worth more than $20 ...
An Air India pilot faces the wrath of his bosses after appearing in a YouTube video rapping about bad pay, aging female flight attendants and canceled flights. Titled “Air India Rap,” the homemade track starts with the pilot putting on his uniform before the ...
A group of medical specialists has provided an answer to a dilemma that has faced flyers since the Wright brothers took to the air in 1903 — is it OK to fart midflight? The experts’ recommendation is an emphatic yes to airline passengers — ...
Despite experts’ best efforts to get to the bottom of the mishaps involving Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners, pinpointing the causes may take a while, leaving the timetable for their return to the skies uncertain. All Nippon Airways Co., which has more 787s than any ...
All Nippon Airways Co. said Thursday its group net profit rose 54.6 percent in the April-December period to ¥52.24 billion, due partly to an increase in business passengers. Its consolidated operating profit rose 18.0 percent to a record ¥107.52 billion for the nine-month period, ...
Aviation regulators on Thursday grounded most of the world’s 787 Dreamliner fleet until a fire risk linked to the plane’s batteries can be fixed, deepening a crisis for its U.S. manufacturer, Boeing Co. Regulators in Japan, India and Chile followed the lead of the ...