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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.
Suddenly a robotized, automated economic reality is moving off the science fiction pages and into daily life. The growing use of unmanned battlefield drones is encouraging the growth of pilotless commercial aircraft — the first ever flew in British airspace last month. Google’s driverless car is completing ever more trials ...
Archaeologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range where pre-Hispanic groups were ...
An article written by Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie provoked headlines around the world when she chose “not to keep my ...
Relief workers and cleanup crews defied thunderstorms Thursday as families and friends gathered for the funeral of one of the Oklahoma tornado’s youngest victims. Heavy rain and lightning at dawn threatened to upset Moore’s long trail back to normality, with police at one point ...
President Barack Obama set out Thursday to redefine the U.S. fight against global terrorism, but despite calling for a more targeted rather than “boundless” theater of global operations, he left out the specifics and timelines for action, by which his success or failure could ...
A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher’s knife after the killing of a British soldier in the Woolwich area of south London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hardliners ...
One person was killed in a spectacular fire that broke out in a fuel depot on the northern edge of Rio de Janeiro and spread to nearby homes Thursday. Six giant fuel containers at the storage site caught fire, sending giant flames up to ...
Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. Few ...
Here is a look at the history of Guantanamo Bay’s use for terrorist suspects since 2002: January 2002: U.S. transfers the first 20 prisoners from holding cells overseas to its base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The men are hooded, shackled and wearing orange jumpsuits, ...
President Barack Obama’s renewed effort to close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay faces the same steep political climb as in his first term: To make Thursday’s announcement work, Congress would have to accept a plan to move some detainees from Cuba to ...
Some questions and answers about the U.S. drone program: What are drones? The U.S. has an extensive fleet of remotely piloted vehicles, known as drones, but it relies most heavily for targeted strikes on the Predators and Reapers, which are armed with Hellfire missiles. ...
The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed Thursday evening, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. There were no deaths, and three people were rescued and ...
Researchers began decoding the glyphic language of the ancient Maya long ago, but the Internet is helping them finish the job and write the history of the enigmatic Mesoamerican civilization. For centuries, scholars understood little about Maya script beyond its elegant astronomical calculations and ...
The Boy Scouts of America has thrown open its ranks to gay Scouts but not to gay adult Scout leaders — a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections. The Scouts on Thursday stressed that their ...
President Barack Obama instructed Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to review Justice Department guidelines for leak investigations, meet with media organizations and report back to him by mid-July. In a speech to the National Defense University, Obama addressed the uproar over his administration’s ...