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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.
Research shows that fish and other sea life have been heading toward the Earth's poles for more than three decades.
Smallmouth bass that draw hundreds of millions of dollars to the Chesapeake Bay region for sport fishing are sick. A report released Thursday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the fish, particularly those in the lower Susquehanna River, have been struck by pollution, parasites, ...
Spending six months of every year in the Arctic, adventurer Tetsuhide Yamazaki sees the impact of global warming firsthand through the region’s thinning sea ice, the expanse of which has roughly halved in the last three decades. The ice is “very thin this year,” ...
Summer ice in the Antarctic is melting 10 times quicker than it did 600 years ago, with the most rapid melt occurring in the last 50 years, an Australian-British study released Monday shows. A research team from the Australian National University and the British ...
The sight of valuable fish being thrown back into the sea, mostly to die, has been a public relations nightmare for the fishing industry and driven calls by celebrity chefs and environmentalists for a ban on the practice. European fishing boats have long discarded ...
Scientists have peeked into the DNA of the giant squid, seeking to demystify a deep-sea creature that has haunted sailors’ dreams for centuries. But their findings have dredged up some tantalizing questions in turn. These include the likelihood that there is just one species ...
Great white sharks, the world’s largest predatory fish, eat three to four times more food than previously thought, an Australian study shows. U.S. research from the 1980s estimated a 30 kg meal of mammal blubber could sustain a 1-ton shark for more than six ...
Scientists said Sunday that they had discovered an unexpectedly large and active community of single-celled organisms living on the Pacific seafloor at the deepest site on Earth. The “surprisingly active” community of microbes exists in the Challenger Deep, about 11 km below sea level ...
Whales that beach themselves in large groups are not all members of the same family, a study has found, undermining long-held assumptions about the cause of mass strandings. A team of scientists studied 12 mass beachings in Australia and New Zealand to examine the ...
Japanese whalers and militant conservationists have again been in dangerous clashes off Antarctica, with both sides accusing the other of ramming their vessels. Veteran antiwhaling campaigner Paul Watson said that on Monday the factory ship Nisshin Maru rammed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s much ...
A weird marine creature that lived 500 million years ago at a time of explosive growth in Earth’s biodiversity could be a forerunner of worms and mollusks, a study published Thursday says. Paleontologists from both China and Europe have taken a second look at ...