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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.
Lightly laughing, Mizuki Noguchi insisted that aging isn’t necessarily so bad. The injury-prone runner said so because she thinks she is in her best physical condition in years. It’s not that she’s fortunate or anything, but she now can distinguish what kind of status her body is. “I’ve had numerous ...
Kaori Yoshida was stripped of her fourth-place finish in December’s Honolulu Marathon on Thursday, when the Japan Anti-Doping Agency revealed ...
Kenya’s double world 5,000 meters and 10,000 champion Vivian Cheruiyot is expecting her first child and will not be defending ...
Jamaica dominated the sprint races at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai on Saturday, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning the women’s 100 meters and Warren Weir capturing gold in the men’s 200. Fraser-Pryce, a two-time Olympic champ, ran 10.93 seconds to beat Blessing Okagbare and ...
Resurgent Athens Olympic gold medalist Mizuki Noguchi won her first official race in five years on Sunday when she triumphed at the Sendai International Half Marathon. Noguchi, who marked her latest comeback from a succession of injuries with a third-place finish at the Nagoya ...
Jonathan Brownlee of Britain returned from injury to claim his first triathlon world series victory of the season by winning in Yokahama on Saturday. The London Olympics bronze medalist, who had been told an ankle injury could end his season, edged Olympic silver medalist ...
Victories by Justin Gatlin and Olympic gold medalist Brittney Reese helped the United States dominate the season-opening Diamond League on Friday night, with the Americans winning almost half of the events up for grabs. American rival Jamaica managed only one victory — with two-time ...
Teenager Yoshihide Kiryu came up short in his bid to become the first Japanese sprinter to break the 10-second barrier at the Golden Grand Prix on Sunday. American Mike Rodgers won the final in 10.19 while Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas finished runnerup in ...
Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin, who won the women’s 1,500-meter gold medal at the London Olympics last year, was charged with doping by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Friday. The 27-year-old has been provisionally suspended after anomalies were discovered in her biological ...
Sydney Olympic gold medal-winning marathoner Naoko Takahashi has an objection, saying a Japan Association of Athletics Federations decision takes irreplaceable opportunities away from the runners. The decision? On Thursday, the JAAF announced that its national marathon and race walk race squads for the IAAF ...
The Japan Association of Athletics Federations announced the selection of eight marathoners and seven race walkers for the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow on Thursday. Popular runner Yuki Kawauchi headlines the men’s marathon squad, while Ryoko Kizaki and Athens Olympic gold medalist Mizuki ...
Yuki Kawauchi pulled away from Russia’s Alexey Sokolov with around 2 km left to win the Nagano Marathon on Sunday. Kawauchi won the race for the first time when he cut the tape at Minami Nagano Athletic Park in 2 hours, 14 minutes, 27 ...
Yoko Shibui admitted to her shock at the bombing of the Boston Marathon that has reportedly left three dead and injured more than 170, as she prepares to run in Sunday’s London Marathon. “It was a massive shock for me,” Shibui told a news ...
Usain Bolt, the two-time reigning Olympic champion over 100 and 200 meters, will bid to better his world record over the rarely raced distance of 150 meters on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana beach on Sunday. The Jamaican sprint star set the world best ...
Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis came to Japan hoping to boost the spirits of young athletes from the Tohoku region, but the track legend says it was he who came away inspired in the end. Lewis wrapped up a short visit to the ...