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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.
Trade minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Wednesday called on the president of Russia-owned Gazprom to provide Japan with liquefied natural gas from its plant to be built near Vladivostok at a “reasonable price” and in a “timely manner” after it starts up. In a meeting ...
The government has filed suit against antinuclear activists, demanding the removal of their tents erected on the trade ministry’s grounds, sources said Monday. The ministry is also demanding that the activists pay around ¥11 million in fees for using the land through March. Taichi ...
A typical household will have to pay ¥108 to ¥132 per month in surcharges to electric power firms in the year from May under the feed-in tariff scheme, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Friday. The system, introduced last year, requires utilities ...
The government will soon file a suit seeking removal of tents set up on the premises of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry by activists opposed to nuclear power, METI Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday. Motegi said a settlement through civil court proceedings ...
Industrial production grew 1.0 percent in January from December for the second straight monthly rise, backed by positive developments in global economic conditions and the weakening yen, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced Thursday. METI upgraded its basic assessment of production, saying ...
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to create a comprehensive futures market for energy products at the Tokyo Commodity Exchange in 2014, sources said. The market will list energy products such as liquefied natural gas, coal, fuel oil and liquefied petroleum gas ...
Foreign students studying in Japan can be a great help in promoting the nation’s strong points overseas. Under the Cool Japan Strategy, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is now trying to solicit these students’ help in pitching more Japanese content abroad, including ...
A series of spring events to promote Japanese food, art and fashion has kicked off in Tokyo as part of the “Cool Japan” campaign, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Among the upcoming events in Tokyo are “Ginza Fashion Week,” a ...