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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 captain Makoto Hasebe was sent off for a foul on Blue Samurai teammate Takashi Inui and Eintracht Frankfurt came from two goals down to hold Wolfsburg 2-2 at home on the final day of the Bundesliga season on Saturday. Goals from Jan Polak ...
Kashima Antlers swept past Nagoya Grampus 3-1 in the J. League on Saturday in the presence of the club’s legendary architect Zico. Yasushi Endo, Atsutaka Nakamura and Yuya Osako scored for Antlers, who are in fourth after seizing the matchup that helped launch the ...
The King’s Cup trophy could have been coach Jose Mourinho’s parting gift for Real Madrid, or at least a consolation prize after a disappointing season filled with locker room turmoil and failure in La Liga and the Champions League. Instead, Atletico Madrid ended a ...
David Beckham, whose curling free kicks, rugged good looks and celebrity marriage made him one of the most famous athletes in the world, is retiring from soccer. Whether striding on the grass, the red carpet or the fashion catwalks, Beckham transcended his sport and ...
The England coach was pulling away after a training session when suddenly David Beckham asked the driver to stop. Beckham stepped out of the coach and signed autographs for two fans he had missed earlier. Sometimes it is the small things that define a ...
Vegalta Sendai striker Wilson will serve out the remainder of his two-match ban for Saturday’s away game to Yokohama F. Marinos after being sent off in the Asian Champions League, the J. League said Friday. Wilson was handed the ban by the Asian Football ...
Branislav Ivanovic rose to head home an injury-time winner as Chelsea beat Benfica 2-1 in the Europa League final on Wednesday, securing the club’s second European title in as many seasons. Just as they did in last year’s penalty shootout victory over Bayern Munich ...
Saburo Kawabuchi, the J. League's first chairman, looks back at the history of the league he helped create 20 years ago.
Kashiwa Reysol flew the flag high for Japan on the J. League’s 20th birthday on Wednesday with a 2-0 first-leg win away to South Korea’s Jeonbuk Motors in the Asian Champions League round of 16. Kashiwa, the only Japanese team left in this year’s ...
Wigan became the first team to be relegated and win the F.A. Cup in the same season as a 4-1 loss at Arsenal ended an eight-year stay in the Premier League on Tuesday. Arsenal, meanwhile, is now primed to qualify for the Champions League ...
Manchester City fired manager Roberto Mancini on Monday, exactly one year after he delivered the club’s first English League title in 44 years. The Italian coach, who had four years remaining on his contract, was dismissed just as players from rival Manchester United were ...
As red-and-white ticker tape flew into the rainy sky above Old Trafford, a beaming Alex Ferguson hoisted up the Premier League trophy for a 13th and final time. Behind Britain’s most successful soccer manager stood his jubilant squad of players, dancing to a soundtrack ...