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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.
A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher’s knife after the killing of a British soldier in the Woolwich area of south London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hardliners ...
Germany is the most popular country again in terms of "global influence," with Japan dropping from first to fourth place, an annual poll for the BBC World Service reveals.
Two men with butcher knives hack a man to death near a London military barracks, and one of them then goes on video, shouting political statements and waving a meat cleaver.
A bill to legalize gay marriage in Britain passed a crucial hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday, despite efforts by lawmakers from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party to wreck the plans. Members of the House of Commons voted 366-161 in favor of the same-sex ...
More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least 1 million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the ...
Skateboarders soar out of the concrete bowl beneath London’s Southbank Center, as they have done for the past 40 years, while spectators drink beer and hip-hop beats stoke up the party atmosphere. But this is no party — it is a protest. These knights ...
Prime Minister David Cameron has suffered a fresh blow to his authority, with around a third of his own party’s lawmakers voting against his delay on offering a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership. The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday rejected a motion ...
Prime Minister David Cameron is bracing for a fresh Conservative rebellion over Europe this week as about 100 of his party’s lawmakers look set to defy him in a parliamentary vote. Tory divisions over Britain’s membership in the European Union, never far below the ...
At least eight professional footballers have revealed to colleagues that they are gay, but have refused to go public because they fear a backlash from fans. This latest evidence that British football remains a homophobic environment comes after Jason Collins, a high-profile American basketball ...
Methil port north of Edinburgh, once the focus of Scotland’s coal exports, is set to tap a greener kind of energy as Samsung Heavy Industry Co. constructs the world’s biggest wind turbine in the town’s faded harbor. The 7-megawatt model with a span of ...
A deputy speaker of Britain’s lower house of Parliament was arrested Saturday on suspicion of raping one man and sexually assaulting another, according to media reports. Nigel Evans, a lawmaker in Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party, was reportedly questioned over the alleged attacks ...
The anti-immigration U.K. Independence Party breaks through as a major political force in local elections, averaging a quarter of the vote and bloodying the ruling coalition's nose.