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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.
SAITAMA (Kyodo) Around 1,300 people who evacuated Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, amid the disaster at the nearby nuclear power plant started moving from their temporary shelter at Saitama Super Arena to a school building in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday. They were to be bused ...
FUKUSHIMA — Tetsuo Sakuma has loaded his small pickup with all it can carry. There’s not much of value: a television, some books, boxes of clothes, snatched in haste from a home he may never sleep in again. “We hope to come back, but ...
Industry minister Banri Kaieda instructed nuclear plant operators Wednesday to compile emergency safety measures to prevent radiation leaks in the event that their power and cooling systems fail, as happened in the Fukushima crisis. Utilities, which operate 45 nuclear reactors nationwide excluding the Fukushima ...
SENDAI — Nearly three weeks after the 9.0-magnitude temblor sent shock waves through the city and the massive tsunami devastated a long stretch of the coast, Sendai, the largest city in the Tohoku region, is slowly trying to get back on its feet. But ...
SENDAI (Kyodo) Labor offices in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures have been swamped with a combined 8,000 inquiries about labor issues, including dismissals and special paid leave, since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the offices said Wednesday. The number is expected to grow ...
Messages of support and donations have been flooding in from all over the world to give the grieving people of Japan hope and courage and remind them they are not alone. Not only have 134 governments and 39 international organizations offered assistance in dealing ...
The Democratic Party of Japan-led government withdrew a bill Wednesday to provide monthly child allowances for the fiscal year that starts Friday, including increasing payments for children under 3, amid criticism from opposition parties that the money should be used to reconstruct the March ...
Industrial production in February rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent from the previous month for the fourth straight month of gain, aided by solid demand for cars in and outside the country, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Wednesday. But prospects are ...
Japanese companies may rethink their century-long trend of concentrating resources in Tokyo after the nation’s record earthquake crimped power supply to the capital and radiation concern spurred some residents to flee. Production hubs in Japan should be shifted to the western part of the ...
Exports of Japanese seafood have been canceled by foreign buyers on concern that the products may have been contaminated by radiation leaking from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, a government official said. At least 10 orders have been withdrawn since the March 11 earthquake ...
Coca-Cola Co., the world’s biggest soft-drink maker, said its bottled-water plants in Japan are running 24 hours a day to meet demand amid fears of tap water contamination from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. “The irradiated water scare affects every part of ...
NEW YORK (Kyodo) “Songs for Japan,” an album dedicated to supporting victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunamI, is the top-selling album on Apple Inc.’s online shop in 18 countries. According to the iTunes Store Top 10 Albums, the album, featuring 38 songs ...