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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.
Five people in their 70s to 90s from Fukui Prefecture have been chasing and collecting bees for more than half a century, contributing to the discovery of rare species. All five of the former teachers studied the life of bees under Fukui University professor ...
Japanese researchers said Friday they have found a better, cheaper way to smelt rare earth metals by using salmon milt, or sperm. Rare earth ores can contain several of the 17 metals considered essential to manufacturing motors, phone parts and other high-tech products, but ...
From a cliff above the tiny cove, a stocky, bald man could be seen between tightly drawn lengths of green tarpaulin, a metal rod in one hand, and something long, black and smooth wriggling helplessly under the other. Suddenly, the waters come alive with ...
Japanese researchers have developed a point-based system that can predict the risk of a stroke over 10 years. Blood pressure levels, smoking and other risk factors are taken into account in the prediction model, the researchers, including Fujita Health University professor Hiroshi Yatsuya in ...
The White House moved Friday to make nearly all federally funded research freely available to the public, the latest advance in a long-running battle over access to research that exploded into view last month after the suicide of free-information activist Aaron Swartz. In a ...
A smoker’s craving to light up can be tamed by carefully targeted magnetic fields applied to the brain, a Japanese-Canadian team has found. Scientists managed to zoom in on the exact spots that drive cravings for nicotine, noting that a mental connection made when ...
Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka has revealed that a project to stockpile artificially derived stem cells for clinical research will start in early February. The project is intended to create induced pluripotent stem cells from the blood of people with rare cell forms, known ...
New U.S. federal rules proposed Tuesday would severely restrict medical and behavioral research on chimpanzees and send nearly all of the government’s remaining 450 research chimps into retirement, an unfunded project that could cost $25 million. The recommendations, which set high hurdles for new ...