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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.
Elderly residents in a small town in Mie Prefecture consider 22-year-old Mao Higashi a great help when she delivers food from her truck.
The government adopted two welfare bills at a Cabinet meeting Friday that would spell out tougher measures for cheats. The legislation comprises a bill to revise the Public Assistance Act and a bill to support poor people. Under the proposed change to the Public ...
The number of people on welfare came to 2,153,642 in January, up 2,477 from the previous month, resetting a record high for the ninth month in a row, the welfare ministry said Wednesday. The number of households on welfare also stood at a record ...
With welfare abuse in the spotlight, the city of Ono, Hyogo Prefecture, is mulling an unprecedented ordinance that would ban welfare recipients from using the money for gambling. The city presented a draft ordinance to the assembly Wednesday. If approved, it would take effect ...
A program run by a nonprofit organization in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, to hire homeless people and help them get back on their feet is bearing fruit a year and a half after its inception. Benriya, a group of handymen operated by the NPO Nowami’s ...
Welfare minister Norihisa Tamura said Wednesday that welfare payments to the poor will be cut across the board, reflecting a government panel’s finding that some are receiving more money each month than what low-income workers spend on average. He spoke to reporters in Ishinomaki, ...