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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 Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google’s dominance in communist Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company’s search engine, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism ...
Vietnam’s booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S. Web companies. That is not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit that believes it can unseat the American search engine in this fast-growing Asian market ...
The city of Nemuro, Hokkaido, which boasts the nation’s largest saury catches, has been stepping up efforts to export the fish to Vietnam. To expand sales to Southeast Asia, the port city gave a sales pitch to senior Vietnamese officials with the support of ...
Most Vietnamese coffee farmers have never heard of a double tall skinny latte, but they can tell you the price of the beans that are used to make one in their sleep. From high-tech Israeli irrigation systems to text message updates of global prices ...
The government will examine relaxing visa requirements to encourage more tourists from emerging nations in Southeast Asia to visit Japan, sources in the Abe administration said Saturday. The move comes as the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has determined it is necessary to ...
The trial of a Vietnamese fish farmer who became a folk hero after using homemade shotguns to resist eviction began Tuesday, with scores of people defying a heavy police presence to show their support. Hundreds of police shut down the roads near Haiphong’s People’s ...
When Vietnam’s communist leaders asked for public comment on their plan to amend the country’s constitution, they did not anticipate unleashing an unprecedented debate on the party’s monopoly on power. What was supposed to be a ritualistic consultation has morphed into a fierce open ...
Hanoi AFP-JIJI Communist Party leaders gathered in Hanoi Friday to mark the 40th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, the culmination of painstaking talks that eventually ended America’s direct military involvement in Vietnam. Thousands of people attended the ceremony in the country’s capital to ...
Posters of U.S. bombers crashing in flames festoon Hanoi to mark another anniversary in a long-finished war. But behind the usual propaganda Vietnam’s rulers face a modern-day threat — anger over the economy. For years the leaders of the one-party state have relied on ...