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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.
A 15-month-old Indian girl whose head has swollen to nearly double its normal size is “doing well,” a doctor said Friday, but treatment could be complicated by the extreme nature of her case. Roona Begum, who suffers from hydrocephalus, a rare disorder that causes ...
The first child of Prince William and his wife, Kate, is due in July, St James’s Palace said Monday. The palace also said Kate was returning to full health following her hospitalization last month with severe morning sickness. “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ...
The wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared on state television Monday looking pregnant and fueling expectations of an imminent addition to the ruling Kim dynasty. Ri Sol Ju was shown standing by her husband at a memorial service to mark the ...