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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.
More than 12,000 Pakistanis living in a remote, impoverished southwestern desert region near the Iranian border have been affected by this week’s huge earthquake, a relief official said Thursday. The 7.8-magnitude quake, which struck southeastern Iran on Tuesday, was the most powerful to strike ...
A Pakistani court Thursday ordered the arrest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for his controversial decision to dismiss judges when he imposed emergency rule in 2007. It was not immediately clear if or when the retired general would be arrested. Musharraf was driven ...
More than half of young Pakistanis believe democracy has not been good for their country and nearly 40 percent are in favor of having Islamic Shariah rule, according to a survey published Wednesday. Pakistan goes to the polls in a historic general election May ...
Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban for promoting girls’ education, will tell her life story in a book due out this year, the publishers say, in a deal worth around $3 million. The book will be titled “I ...
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai returned to school Tuesday for the first time since October, when she was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education. The 15-year-old said she had “achieved her dream” and was looking forward to meeting new ...
Pakistan’s government has become the first in the country’s history to complete a full term in office, but key achievements have been overshadowed by mismanagement, economic decline and worsening security. When the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) won the 2008 elections on a wave of ...
One young contender created the world’s largest sequin mosaic using 325,000 of the sparkly discs. Two other youths achieved 123 consecutive badminton passes in one minute. And 1,450 participants broke the record for the most people arm wrestling. Such are the skills that Guinness ...
CIA drone strikes on targets in Pakistan violate its national sovereignty and have resulted in far more civilian casualties than the U.S. government has recognized, a special U.N. human rights envoy has reported after a secret investigation. Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on ...
During the evening rush hour in central Karachi, Nadeem Mutloob can barely keep up with demand at his curbside milk bar, a popular stop for workers on their way home. Customers line up for cool bottles of what Mutloob and some medical researchers tout ...
Newly appointed Pakistani Ambassador to Japan Farukh Amil said Wednesday that his mission here is to work as a catalyst for drawing further investment by Japanese businesses to his country while stressing that sound bilateral political ties form the basis of a flourishing economic ...
Pakistani Christians on Monday closed missionary schools in protest after a Muslim mob torched more than 100 Christian homes following allegations of blasphemy. The schools are considered among the best in Pakistan and are extremely popular with wealthy Muslim families, with pupils taught in ...
A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this year. ...