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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.
Shinji Kagawa’s debut season at Manchester United was a quiet one, but if luck goes his way the forward can play a major role for the Premier League champions next term. Kagawa scored the opening goal in United’s 5-5 draw with West Bromwich Albion ...
National team manager Alberto Zaccheroni will be without two of his most important players when Japan attempts to book its ticket to the 2014 World Cup against Jordan next Tuesday, but the Italian still has enough quality in reserve to get the job done. ...
Japan will face tougher tests over the year ahead than next Wednesday’s season-opening friendly against Latvia, but with World Cup qualification virtually secured more than 16 months before the tournament begins, manager Alberto Zaccheroni will be keen to start building momentum on the road ...
Shinji Kagawa will not have expected anything to come easy when he joined Manchester United last summer, but having returned from injury over the holiday period to a team that has been winning in his absence, the forward will have to work overtime to ...
The Club World Cup undoubtedly has its flaws, but as the competition ends its long association with Japan to set up home in Morocco for the next two years, the Japanese game would do well to consider what it is losing. Brazilian side Corinthians ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima may have had to wait until the J. League’s 20th season before winning their first piece of silverware, but after clinching the championship with a resounding win in front of a home crowd on Saturday, the achievement will taste all the sweeter. ...
Japan may have enjoyed dining at soccer’s top table in prestige friendlies against France and Brazil last month, but with World Cup-qualifying points at stake in next Wednesday’s away trip to Oman, Alberto Zaccheroni’s side will have to quickly readjust to the realities of ...
International friendlies are often looked upon as little more than an irritation in the crowded calender of the modern game, but as Japan prepares to take on France and Brazil over the coming week, national team manager Alberto Zaccheroni is unlikely to concur. Japan ...
Japan can take a giant step toward a fifth consecutive World Cup appearance by beating Iraq in next Tuesday’s Brazil 2014 qualifier in Saitama, and if Alberto Zaccheroni’s side can come anywhere close to matching its recent performances, the visitors will be in for ...
Japan’s men may not have been able to emulate their female counterparts in winning a medal at the London Games, but the performance of both teams has taken the nation’s soccer to a new global standing. Nadeshiko Japan returned from the Olympics with a ...
The odds are stacked against Japan’s men winning soccer gold at the London Olympics, but given the talent at manager Takashi Sekizuka’s disposal, the possibility of a first medal since 1968 should not be completely discounted. Japan begins its quest to match or better ...
Shinji Kagawa made a positive first impression at his unveiling as a Manchester United player last week, but the forward will be keen to replace words with action when he makes his debut for the Premier League giants. Kagawa gave an assured performance in ...