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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.
The International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission continued its tour of venues for Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics on Wednesday with a visit to Tokyo Big Sight. The sprawling complex next to Tokyo Bay would play host to wrestling, fencing and taekwondo if the capital city wins the right ...
Wrestling’s governing body has “reacted well” and made the necessary changes to give the sport a chance of saving its ...
World amateur boxing association chief Wu Ching-kuo of Taiwan has confirmed his intention to run for president of the International ...
Former Olympic champion Koji Murofushi has lost his appeal against disqualification from an election to become an IOC member representing athletes. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it dismissed the Japanese hammer thrower’s challenge of an IOC decision excluding him, after claims he ...
Amateur boxing association chief C.K. Wu of Taiwan has notified IOC president Jacques Rogge he will be a candidate to succeed him as head of the Olympic body. An official with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press that Wu met with Rogge ...
Singapore’s Ng Ser Miang is set to become the second declared candidate in the race to succeed Jacques Rogge as president of the IOC. Several officials with knowledge of the decision told AP on Tuesday that the 64-year-old Ng will formally announce his candidacy ...
Organizers of Istanbul’s bid for the 2020 Olympics say safety and security are their “utmost priority” following the twin bombing attacks on a Syrian border town. Turkey has blamed Syria for Saturday’s car bombings that killed at least 46 people in Reyhanli, a main ...
A resounding majority of Istanbul residents back the city’s candidacy to host the 2020 Olympic Games, Turkish Sports Minister Suat Kilic said Monday. “Eighty-three percent of Istanbul’s population support the bid -that’s 11 million people who want a city which bridges East and West ...
Support is rising nationwide for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid, according to International Olympic Committee officials, and support is now at 70 percent in Tokyo, it was announced.
The Japan Wrestling Federation launched an online petition site to keep wrestling in the Olympics on Monday with the aim of submitting 100,000 signatures to the International Olympic Committee. The website, titled “Save Olympic Wrestling,” can be accessed in several languages. The federation plans ...
The Tokyo Olympic bid committee held a commemorative event Tuesday to mark 200 days before the vote to decide the host city for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The event was held jointly with the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the international terminal ...
After a series of scandals that have rocked the sports world in recent weeks, the Japanese Olympic Committee is working to improve how it handles its societal duties. At the same time, the JOC recognizes the urgency to work to restore public faith in ...
Japan Wrestling Federation President Tomiaki Fukuda on Wednesday called into question the International Olympic Committee’s decision to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games, saying the sport’s governing body has failed to give “clear reasons” for why wrestling is being removed. Fukuda said the fight ...
The IOC's decision stuns Japan, which collected six wrestling medals at the 2012 London Games.
In the wake of claims of physical and verbal abuse made by national women’s judo team members, a Kyodo News survey on Sunday found that training staff in two additional sports admitting knowing of physical abuse. In a questionnaire distributed to coaches and development ...