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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.
Japan’s silver medal win in the women’s speedskating team pursuit final on Saturday was met with a mixture of joy and frustration after its skaters missed out on the gold by a whisker. Masako Hozumi, Nao Kodaira and Maki Tabata were ahead for most ...
Speedskater Nao Kodaira recorded a fifth-place finish in the women’s 1,500 meters at the Vancouver Olympics on Sunday. Kodaira crossed the line in 1 minute, 58.20 seconds. It was her second fifth-place result at the Olympics, following Thursday’s 1,000 meters. Ireen Wust of the ...
Keiichiro Nagashima won the men’s 500-meter speedskating silver medal and former world-record holder Joji Kato followed in third to claim the bronze as Japan collected its first medals at the Vancouver Games on Monday. Nagashima could only manage the sixth-best time in the first ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Speedskater Masako Hozumi turned in a sixth-place effort in the women’s 3,000 meters at the Vancouver Olympics on Sunday. Hozumi, paired with eventual winner Martina Sablikova, clocked 4 minutes, 7.36 seconds to equal the recent best result by a Japanese ...