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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 Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday endorsed a revision to the Self-Defense Forces law that would allow emergency transportation of Japanese and other nationals overseas using land vehicles. The government and the ruling parties will aim for approval of the bill ...
Japan remained on alert Wednesday for a North Korean ballistic missile launch expected in the next few days, but Tokyo acknowledged that it was unsure whether Pyongyang would take any action within the day. Amid growing tensions over North Korea’s belligerence, Japan has sent ...
The Defense Ministry has deployed Patriot PAC-3 antimissile air defense units to three Self-Defense Forces installations, in Tokyo and Chiba, to defend against possible North Korean missile strikes, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday. The PAC-3 units were deployed to the Defense Ministry’s ...
The Defense Ministry may have to abandon a plan to station a Ground Self-Defense Force coastal monitoring unit on Okinawa’s Yonaguni Island because negotiations with the town over the price of land have deadlocked. “If the current situation continues, we have no choice but ...
Thirty-four people were injured when a tourist bus and a Self-Defense Forces truck collided Saturday on a road in Fukuoka Prefecture, police reported. The truck’s two SDF personnel sustained broken bones, while the tour conductor and 31 passengers on the bus received minor injuries ...
Ground Self-Defense Force personnel boarded MV-22 Osprey aircraft for training for the first time Wednesday. During a joint drill open to the media, about 50 members of the GSDF Western Army Infantry Regiment for defending Japan’s remote islands boarded four of the tilt-rotor aircraft ...
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba uses the Algerian hostage crisis to advocate lighter rules on weapons use overseas so the SDF can fly around the world rescuing Japanese.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday congratulated Self-Defense Forces personnel involved in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Israeli-held Golan Heights during a ceremony at the Defense Ministry. The SDF began pulling its 47 soldiers out of the area in late December after being ...
The Self-Defense Forces, police and the Japan Coast Guard’s regional office in central Japan will use a common coordinate system to speed up the dispatch of relief units in emergencies, according to sources. The Ground Self Defense Force 10th Division, the Chubu Regional Police ...