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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.
The government is arranging to waive approximately ¥200 billion that Myanmar still owes Japan and offer around ¥100 billion in aid, following a bilateral accord in April 2012 to forgive about ¥300 billion, according to sources. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to announce ...
If you’re American and want to do business in Myanmar, there’s a list of people and companies you have to steer clear of by law. But it leaves off a former minister’s son that U.S. officials suspected of brokering arms deals with North Korea, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Myanmar from Friday to Sunday for talks with the country’s leaders with the aim of strengthening bilateral economic cooperation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday. Abe will become the first Japanese prime minister in 36 years to ...
The U.S. and Myanmar struck a trade agreement Tuesday as the former pariah state undertakes economic reforms and seeks greater American investment. The Trade and Investment Framework Agreement is aimed at promoting bilateral dialogue and cooperation on trade and investment issues, the United States ...
President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed Myanmar’s president to the White House — the first such visit in nearly 50 years — and hailed the Southeast Asian nation’s progress on democratic reforms, but emphasized that much work remains to be done. After meeting privately ...
The military that ran Myanmar for decades will continue to play a major role in the country, the former general who has presided over the transformation of a nation that only three years ago was considered one of the world’s most repressive said Sunday. ...
Three Maritime Self-Defense Force training ships plan to make a port visit in Myanmar in early October, sources said. Japan apparently intends to use the port visit to deepen relations with Myanmar as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe work to boost Japan’s presence in Southeast ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to make a three-day visit to Myanmar next Friday in a bid to strengthen bilateral ties, a government source said Saturday. Abe, who will be accompanied by top executives from more than 30 Japanese companies, is expected to hold ...
T-shirts bearing images of U.S. President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s prodemocracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It’s a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became ...
A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar’s western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal. Tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya ...
Myanmar’s leader, President Thein Sein, plans a landmark visit to Washington later this month, a source said Thursday, as the United States eased visa restrictions in a sign of support despite a surge in anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar. Thein Sein, who will be the ...
Masaru Matsuoka, a Fukuoka city employee, has been stationed in Yangon since April 2012, teaching officials of Myanmar’s biggest metropolis how to improve their municipal water system. Soon after his recruitment by the city government in Fukuoka in 2002, Matsuoka, a 34-year-old civil engineering ...