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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.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem of the Netherlands took over Monday as chairman of the key Eurogroup of finance ministers, despite resistance in a vote to replace Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker. “We appointed the Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem to become the new president of the Eurogroup,” Juncker ...
After losing one public sector IT job and then another in austerity-hit Spain, Thierry Perello decided to seek his fortune in one of the few remaining bright spots on the European map: Switzerland. “I just didn’t want to stay in Spain anymore. I was ...
ANALYSIS Is this what life on the other side of the “fiscal cliff” looks like? If President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans fail to reach a deal in the coming weeks, Americans face a fierce wave of tax hikes and spending cuts that could ...
Nicosia AFP-JIJI Cyprus could default on loan payments due this month unless it can reach an agreement on a bailout with international lenders within days, a government official said Monday. “If in the coming days the state is unable to secure €250 million to ...