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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.
Former Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi is ousted as chairwoman of the Upper House Environment Committee as the opposition warms up for the election.
Opposition parties prepared Wednesday to pass a resolution ousting a senior Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker as head of an Upper House committee, setting the stage for a showdown with the ruling bloc before the Upper House election in July. If passed, it would mark ...
A total of 337 people plan to run in the upcoming Upper House election and vie for 121 of the chamber’s 242 seats, according to a recent survey. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, New Komeito, are aiming for ...
Official campaigning for the April 28 Upper House by-election in Yamaguchi Prefecture begins, with Democratic Party of Japan-backed ex-Justice Minister Hideo Hiraoka challenging a Liberal Democratic Party newcomer.
A group of lawyers is poised to file suits across Japan the day after the Upper House election this summer, seeking to invalidate the results due to wide vote-value disparities.
The Diet on Friday passed a ¥13.2 trillion stopgap budget for fiscal 2013 to fund the government’s spending for 50 days from Monday, with the principal budget unlikely to be enacted before May. The provisional budget, the biggest of its kind ever passed in ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda pledged Thursday to engage in aggressive monetary easing to achieve the central bank’s 2 percent inflation target and end the nation’s prolonged bout with deflation. “It is necessary to continue bold monetary easing in terms of quality and ...
Vowing to institute effective monetary easing steps should he be installed as the next Bank of Japan governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, the government’s nominee, insisted Monday that the central bank’s 2 percent inflation target can be achieved through monetary policy. “I believe it is possible ...
Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) will start seeking candidates Saturday for this summer’s Upper House election and plans to announce the first round of selections at a party conference March 30. Nippon Ishin and Your Party have agreed not to go head ...