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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.
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s presumptive prime minister, on Monday called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country’s powerful army. Sharif said “terrorism” is one of the most serious ...
A fierce battle between U.S.-backed Afghan forces and Taliban militants in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan left nearly 20 people dead, including 11 Afghan children killed in an airstrike and an American civilian adviser, officials said Sunday. The fighting Saturday along a main ...
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 ...
In her first public statement released Monday, Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ educational rights, said she is “getting better day by day.” The 15-year-old said she has been given a “second life” to ...
British doctors said they will insert a titanium plate in the skull of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai to repair a hole left when the Taliban shot her for campaigning for girls’ education. Surgeons at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central English, said Wednesday they ...
The bravery of shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai has inspired children around the world to fight for a better education, key figures in a U.N. campaign said Friday. Hosting a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, U.N. special education envoy and former ...