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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.
Former two-time double gold medal Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima powered to victory in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke on the first day of action Friday at the Japan Open. Kitajima, who captured a pair of golds at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Games, touched the wall in 1 minute, ...
Is Michael Phelps planning a comeback? A report Friday night from WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Florida, ...
Record-breaking swimmer Kosuke Hagino was among 31 named to the Japan national team for this summer’s world championships in Barcelona ...
London Olympic silver medalist Ryosuke Irie stops Kosuke Hagino's bid of winning six titles in the men's 200-meter breaststroke in Japan's national swimming championships on Sunday.
Kosuke Hagino made Japanese swimming history on Saturday when he became the first swimmer to win five titles at the national championships. Hagino powered to victory in the 200-meter individual medley in a Japanese record time of 1 minute, 55.74 seconds on the third ...
Kosuke Hagino defeated London Olympic bronze medalist Ryosuke Irie in the men’s 100 meters backstroke on Friday to capture his third title at the national swimming championships, a qualifier for this summer’s world championships in Barcelona. The 18-year-old Hagino surpassed the qualifying standard with ...
Former two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima will not retire any time soon, saying Monday that he will continue to compete for at least another season. “I want to enjoy swimming this year,” said the 30-year-old Kitajima, who did not win an individual ...
An Australian open-water distance swimmer who has made multiple crossings of the English Channel on Sunday announced an ambitious bid to swim solo from Cuba to the United States without a shark cage. Chloe McCardel, 27, has twice won the Channel Swimming Association’s Sotiraki ...
Daiya Seto placed second in the men’s 200-meter individual medley Friday to capture his second medal at the short-course FINA Swimming World Championships. The 18-year-old Seto was a distant second to American Ryan Lochte, who broke his own world record with a lung-busting time ...
Japanese teen Daiya Seto rewrote his own record Thursday en route to winning the men’s 400-meter individual medley on the second day of the short-course FINA World Swimming Championships. Eighteen-year-old Seto shaved 0.87 second off his previous mark to take the gold medal in ...
Ye Shiwen, China’s teenage swimming sensation, stormed to victory in the 200-meter individual medley despite claiming to be 85 percent fit at Beijing’s short-course World Cup meet on Friday. The 16-year-old who stunned the sporting world with two gold medals in the women’s 200 ...
Teenager Daiya Seto set a new World Cup record in the 400-meter Individual Medley final on Saturday on the opening day of Berlin’s short-course meet. The 18-year-old Japanese record-holder notched his fifth consecutive victory in the event, coming home in 4 minutes, 00.12 seconds ...
The Greek Swimming Federation has been ordered to pay €277,000 ($360,986) to 100-meter freestyle swimmer Tonia Machaira for wrongfully excluding her from the 2004 Athens Olympics on the grounds she had failed a drug test. Machaira filed a suit for €1 million eight years ...
Schoolboy Akihiro Yamaguchi set a new world record in winning the men’s 200-meter breaststroke final on Saturday at the National Sports Festival. Yamaguchi, 18, powered home in 2 minutes, 7.01 seconds at Nagaragawa Swimming Plaza, slicing 0.27 off the previous world mark set by ...
World silver medalist Aya Terakawa strolled through the preliminaries of the women’s 100-meter backstroke, taking a time of 1 minute, .28 seconds into the semifinals of the national championships Wednesday. Terakawa, who medaled for her first time at last year’s world championships in Shanghai ...