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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.
President Barack Obama was poised to nominate former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel as his new defense secretary Monday, but Republicans are signaling a fierce confirmation fight even though he is one of their own. Obama has decided he wants the 66-year-old to succeed Leon ...
What they are: Blood pools and thickens into a clot after an injury or because of a heart problem, clogged arteries or other condition. Clots also can break off and travel to another part of the body. Where they occur: In leg veins (called ...
Houston AP Former President George Bush was admitted to the intensive care unit of Methodist Hospital “following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever,” but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said Wednesday. Jim McGrath, Bush’s spokesman in Houston, ...
FOCUS The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Department facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability to fend off a second attack that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency’s defensive arsenal: ...
It takes a calculator and perhaps the rigor of Sherlock Holmes to cut through the partisan rhetoric about President Barack Obama’s first-term record on judicial nominations. But the bottom line is clear enough. There are more vacancies on the federal courts now than when ...
When it's the end of the world as we know it, you can bet the preppers will be feeling fine and ready.
The Federal Reserve will take steps to bolster the economy until the jobless rate falls to 6.5 percent or inflation looks likely to exceed 2.5 percent, the central bank said Wednesday in a historic move that for the first time specifies the Fed’s goals ...
The U.S. will likely be the “first among equals” in 2030 in an increasingly chaotic world where China is the top economy and demand soars for resources, a U.S. intelligence report said Monday. The National Intelligence Council, in its first assessment in four years ...
The U.S. Congress drew a furious response from the Kremlin on Thursday after passing legislation that targeted human rights abusers in the prison death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Voting 92-4, the Senate approved establishing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia, ending Cold ...