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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 15, 2019
Docomo to lower mobile phone fees by up to 40% in June
NTT Docomo Inc. says it will cut mobile phone charges by up to 40 percent in June amid the government's call on carriers to lower service fees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 10, 2019
Japan's Docomo, KDDI, SoftBank and Rakuten get mobile phone 5G bands ahead of 2020 launch
The telecom ministry allocated Wednesday 5G frequency bands to Rakuten and three mobile carriers that will enable users to send and receive data 100 times faster than 4G.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 10, 2019
Rakuten, Booking.com and Expedia raided by Japan's antitrust watchdog over lodging price policy
Japan's antitrust watchdog on Wednesday raided the offices of Rakuten Inc. and two other online booking operators, alleging they hurt fair trade by requiring accommodation providers to offer their lowest prices on their platforms, according to a source close to the matter.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 5, 2019
Starter Taisuke Yamaoka guides Buffaloes past punchless Eagles for first victory of season
Taisuke Yamaoka worked eight innings and rookie Yuma Tongu broke up a scoreless game with a fourth-inning RBI single as the Orix Buffaloes held on to beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 2-0 on Friday for their first win of the season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 4, 2019
Eagles chase Fighters starter Yuki Saito early, put game out of reach with eight-run sixth
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters handed former Koshien hero Yuki Saito the start Thursday afternoon in a bid to end their losing streak, but the right-hander instead helped prolong it in an 11-2 rout of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 3, 2019
Zelous Wheeler lifts Eagles to win over Fighters with two-run homer in eighth
Zelous Wheeler belted a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles came from behind to beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 3-2 in the Pacific League on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 2, 2019
Eagles lefty Wataru Karashima stifles Fighters
Wataru Karashima pitched seven scoreless innings as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles defeated the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 3-1 on Tuesday for their third straight win.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 29, 2019
Brandon Laird powers Marines past Eagles as rookie teammate Kyota Fujiwara makes Opening Night start
The Chiba Lotte Marines and their fans were already well aware of Brandon Laird and his sushi-making ways before this season.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 28, 2019
Japan's internet giants team up as mobile payments race intensifies
Line Corp. and Mercari Inc. are joining forces on mobile payments as the nation's internet companies race to dominate cashless transactions in the world's No. 3 economy.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB Preview
Mar 27, 2019
Hawks look like Pacific League's best once again
The following is the first of a two-part NPB preview beginning with the 2019 Pacific League.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 20, 2019
Rakuten's Hiroshi Mikitani has a new goal for his 17,000 workers: Learn to code
Less than a decade after stunning workers at his tech giant with an edict to learn English, billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani wants to do the same with computer programming.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 11, 2019
Eagles donate 1,000 seats to ballpark in disaster-hit town
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles donated 1,000 seats on Monday from their home stadium to a local ballpark in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, an area hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 8, 2019
Eagles hurler Takahiro Norimoto to undergo elbow cleanup procedure
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles right-hander Takahiro Norimoto will undergo a cleanup procedure on his pitching elbow next week, general manager Kazuhisa Ishii said Friday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / From the Spot
Mar 6, 2019
With super club dreams, Vissel Kobe tries to rewrite history
Most sports writers have their own personal pantheon of inspirations. At the top of mine is Hunter S. Thompson.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Mar 5, 2019
Rockets, Raptors set for two games in Japan
Well, it's only preseason contests this time, but Japan will host NBA games for the first time in 16 years when the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors face each other, the league announced at a Tokyo news conference on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Mar 4, 2019
Eagles' Takahiro Norimoto leads NPB group chasing Giants ace Tomoyuki Sugano
Tomoyuki Sugano is the best pitcher in Japanese baseball.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 2, 2019
Rakuten's Hiroshi Mikitani set to be big winner in Lyft's impending initial public offering
A Japanese retail billionaire, rather than a Silicon Valley wunderkind, is the biggest beneficiary of Lyft Inc.'s impending initial public offering.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2019
Japan antitrust regulator launches survey to assess global IT giants' sway over vendors
Japan's antitrust watchdog launched Wednesday a survey of transactions involving information technology giants like Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC to investigate whether their market dominance may be hindering fair competition.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 26, 2019
Japan's top three mobile carriers and Rakuten apply for 5G band allocation
The country's three major mobile carriers and e-commerce operator Rakuten Inc. have applied for the allocation of a mobile phone frequency band to introduce next-generation 5G wireless services, the communications ministry said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 22, 2019
Rakuten and China's JD.com to tie up for unmanned delivery service in Japan
Major Japanese and Chinese e-commerce companies Rakuten Inc. and JD.com Inc. said Thursday they will tie up and commercialize an unmanned delivery service in Japan to save the time, cost and labor involved in parcel shipments in the wake of the explosive growth of online shopping.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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