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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 Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world’s third-highest mountain. The five disappeared Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga. Bad weather was preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching the base camp. Kanchenjunga is 8,586 meters high. Mountaineering Department official Dipendra ...
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard moved to allay fears about the economy on Friday saying it had strong fundamentals, after U.S. carmaker Ford announced an end to production in the country. Ford said Thursday it will stop making vehicles at its unprofitable Australian plants ...
A 7-year-old South Korean girl was killed instantly after being struck by the body of a man as he plunged from his 10-floor apartment in an apparent suicide, local media reported. The 40-year-old man jumped from the apartment in the port of Busan on ...
Paul Kagame is angrier than I’ve ever seen him. Rwanda’s president is famously direct with his critics. His contempt for governments he’s crossed swords with, led by the French, is only marginally less vitriolic than his view of human-rights groups daring to lecture him, ...
Thieves have made off with a diamond necklace worth €2 million ($2.6 million) made by Switzerland’s De Grisogono in the second jewelry theft at the Cannes Film Festival. The heist took place during a gala evening Tuesday organized by the jeweler and attended by, ...
Mayor Rob Ford, caught up in a scandal over a video purportedly showing him smoking crack cocaine, fired his chief of staff on Thursday. A statement from the mayor’s office gave no reason for Mark Towhey’s dismissal. Towhey, who was escorted from City Hall ...
The U.S. International Trade Commission sided with Microsoft on Thursday in a patent dispute with Google-owned Motorola Mobility that could have banned Xbox 360 video game consoles from import. “The investigation is terminated,” the ITC said in a notice announcing it was rejecting a ...
France’s lower house on Thursday approved a plan to introduce more courses in English at universities despite critics alleging it will undermine efforts to promote French. A majority of lawmakers in the National Assembly approved the second article of a bill on higher education. ...
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.
President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes Thursday and launched a fresh bid to close Guantanamo Bay, warning that a “perpetual” U.S. war on terrorism will be self-defeating. Obama told Americans their country is at a crossroads, and must move on ...
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.
The White House admits it killed four Americans in overseas counterterrorism operations since 2009, the first time it has publicly taken responsibility for the deaths.