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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 was swept out of the Fed Cup World Group Playoffs on Sunday, falling 3-0 to Spain as Ayumi Morita lost 6-3, 7-5 to Carla Suarez Navarro. Needing a win on the red clay at Real Club de Polo in Barcelona after back-to-back defeats ...
Ayumi Morita, Misaki Doi, Kurumi Nara and tournament-debutante Shuko Aoyama have been selected to face Spain in the Fed Cup World Group relegation playoff later this month, the Japan Tennis Association said on Tuesday. Noticeably missing will be 42-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm, who did not ...
Ayumi Morita stunned world No. 20 Ekaterina Marakova 6-2, 6-2 to pull Japan level at one rubber apiece in its Fed Cup World Group first-round tie against Russia on Saturday. The pressure was on Morita, ranked 57th in the world, to beat Marakova after ...