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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 27-year-old defender says he was ready for a change of scenery after helping Sanfrecce Hiroshima win theJ. League title last season.
Jorge Wagner scored one and created another as Kashiwa Reysol beat South Korea’s Jeonbuk Motors 3-2 on Wednesday night to ...
New Jubilo Iwata manager Takashi Sekizuka was introduced to the media by the struggling J. League first division club on ...
The Japanese soccer calendar could be due for a huge shakeup in 2014, with the Emperor’s Cup final being moved to December and the J. League possibly going back to the two-stage system it abandoned nine years ago. The Japan Football Association decided on ...
Jubilo Iwata on Sunday named Japan’s London Olympic coach Takashi Sekizuka as the first-division club’s new manager. Sekizuka returns to club management for the first time since leaving Kawasaki Frontale in 2009 and will take charge for Iwata’s league game away to fellow strugglers ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Players involved in the J. League's first-ever game share their recollections of the beginning of a new era for Japanese soccer.
Takashi Sekizuka, the man who masterminded Japan’s sensational run to the semifinals of last year’s London Olympics, has emerged as a leading contender to take over as manager of struggling Jubilo Iwata, sources said late Saturday. Hitoshi Morishita stepped down as manager last weekend ...
Shinzo Koroki punished his former teammates with a hotly disputed goal as Urawa Reds came from behind to beat Kashima Antlers 3-1 on Saturday night. Koroki, who joined Urawa over the winter after eight years at fierce rival Kashima, gave the home side a ...
A serious accident that left two players in the hospital may have cast a pall over Monday’s match between Omiya Ardija and Sanfrecce Hiroshima, but the reaction of both sets of fans and players was a credit to the Japanese game. With the clash ...
The J. League said Wednesday it will organize a June charity match benefiting the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. Former Italy star Alessandro del Piero appeared in last year’s game at Kashima Stadium. This year, the match will be staged ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima goalkeeper Takuya Masuda has been discharged from hospital after showing no worsening signs from a concussion suffered in Monday’s game at Omiya Ardija, his J. League first-division club said Tuesday. Making his J1 debut, Masuda collided head-to-head with Omiya forward Takamitsu Tomiyama ...