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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.
Masahiro Tanaka threw two innings of one-run ball Thursday for two-time defending champion Japan against the San Francisco Giants in what appeared to be potential dress rehearsal for the World Baseball Classic final next Tuesday. The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles ace started and earned ...
Japan will be without the driving force of CSKA Moscow midfielder Keisuke Honda and Inter Milan defender Yuto Nagatomo for the crucial upcoming World Cup qualifier away to Jordan, Japan Football Association technical director Hiromi Hara said Thursday. Fitness issues have robbed Italian coach ...
Saburo Kawabuchi has never been one to mince words. So take it from the former Japan Football Association president and the inaugural J. League chairman, the current Japan team are the best in the nation’s history. “This team is strong, make no mistake,” Kawabuchi ...
Two-time defending WBC champion Japan beats the Netherlands 10-6 in the final second-round, Pool 1 game, scoring eight times in the second inning.
Team Japan sure put it all together Sunday night. But who would have thought it would earn the victory with a slugfest? A total of 17 hits, six of them home runs. That’s what Japan racked up during a 16-4 win over the Netherlands ...
Japan head coach Masataka Nashida said Monday he had no worries about his team getting involved in any brawls such as the one that marred Saturday’s first-round Pool D game between Mexico and Canada. The first-round tiebreaker rewards teams for lopsided victories, encouraging Canada ...
Japan punches its ticket to the final round of the World Baseball Classic with a 16-4 rout of the Netherlands.
It will take one more win to punch a ticket to San Francisco. But of course nothing’s secured yet for Team Japan. After a nail-biting 4-3 extra-inning victory over Taiwan in their first game of the World Baseball Classic’s second round on Friday, the ...
So, which side of Masahiro Tanaka did we see on Wednesday night? The question appears to remain. The 24-year-old Japanese right-hander pitched for two frames, starting in the fourth inning, in Japan’s 6-3 loss to Cuba in the first round of the World Baseball ...
Cuba defeats Japan 6-3 in the teams' final Pool A game at the World Baseball Classic.
With both Japan and Cuba having already booked a spot in the second round of the World Baseball Classic, their clash on Wednesday at Fukuoka Dome presents a chance for an important tuneup against a dangerous foe.
The IOC's decision stuns Japan, which collected six wrestling medals at the 2012 London Games.