Softbank Japan jumping into the Android world with the HTC Desire
Schedule to be made available this April, the Android Snapdragon HTC Desire, also know as X06HT is alongside the Apple iPhone 3GS Softbank....
29 Mar 4:12 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Softbank Shows Desire for Japanese Mobile Fans
Yesterday was Softbank Open Day, a celebratory event held for Softbank’s 30th Anniversary and over a thousand lucky lottery winners got t....
29 Mar 2:33 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
SoftBank Ad in Shibuya
Another thing I miss from my time in Tokyo are the big ads everywhere. The ones in Shibuya especially, since they’re alwa....
24 Mar 12:21 am  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Otosan Returns Home
Here’s the entire length of commercial, all 180 seconds of it, where otosan returns to his hometown to see his mother. Coupled with a grea....
20 Mar 9:19 pm  from  alafista   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese traditional lacquer 1000$ iPhone cases
Have you ever heard of  Urushi? Urushi is the traditional art of lacquering wood or almost anything. As for most Japanese art forms, we ha....
19 Mar 6:20 am  from  gaijinlife   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Softbank Releasing PocketWifi in Japan
After what seems like an eternity, Softbank returns to mobile data with the C01HW PocketWifi portable internet router. Yeah, looks kind of ....
18 Mar 7:20 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Softbank freebie – Otousan chocolate
Softbank the mobile phone service company’s CM “star” is “Otousan” the white Japanese Hokkaido dog. You need to a flashplayer en....
17 Mar 10:00 am  from  8tokyo.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan Inc. testing the Twitter waters
As Twitter booms in Japan, big and small businesses are exploring the potential for PR, fostering customer loyalty and targeting new demogr....
8 Mar 8:13 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Otosan Goes Bowling
To spend some quality father-son bonding time, Otosan heads to the bowling alley. This scene of otosan polishing his bowling ball is just aw....
2 Mar 4:35 pm  from  alafista   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Softbank BB Japan to jump into the Peripheral business with SoftBank Selection
What a particular news and move, SoftBank BB, The owner of Softbank Mobile the 3rd largest Mobile operator (with 21 Million of 3G user), in....
1 Mar 4:26 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Otosan Returns Home
In this latest Softbank commercial, Otosan returns back to his parents home, meets his mother, while his wife goes through his school days y....
28 Feb 1:15 pm  from  alafista   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Glico and Softbank Collaboration for White Day
For the upcoming White Day ホワイトデー, Softbank and Glico will be coming together for a joint marketing campaign. Softbank mobile su....
26 Feb 4:46 pm  from  alafista   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Softbank bringing Ustream to Japan
Softbank invested $20 million (about 18 billion JPY) in Ustream at the end of January, giving them a 13.7% share in the American streaming s....
24 Feb 8:15 pm  from  Japan Trends   [Profile]  [Recent] 
January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 2)
News on the latter half of January 2010 which we did not write as a dedicated article. Part 1 is here. Referred pages are all in Japanese, u....
10 Feb 11:25 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Get your Hello Kitty Phone 942H KT RIGHT NOW !
Announced last November during the Softank Winter Collection, the Sharp 924H KT, the black colored phone featuring the Goddess Hello Kitty....
9 Feb 4:24 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Kids are all right at Softbank
If Japan wants to reverse the declining birthrate then maybe more companies should start following the Softbank model of family benefits.....
3 Feb 10:16 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Softbank Otosan Toy That Walks and Talks
Softbank has uploaded the latest Otosan commercial and this time they are giving away a free Otosan toy that walks and talks on its own. It....
3 Feb 1:39 pm  from  alafista   [Profile]  [Recent] 
New Ustream Investor Softbank 3Q Results Briefing Starts On The Web Now
I have just read the breaking news that Softbank invests $75 million to Ustream Inc., live video streaming service. When Softbank will exer....
2 Feb 3:29 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Otosan’s Manly Tour Around Japan
Here’s a continuation of Softbank’s commercial, where Otosan travels on a “manly tour” around Japan with his son. The video really ....
30 Dec 4:56 pm  from  alafista   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Otosan Travels By Train
In this latest Softbank’s commercial, Otosan goes travelling by train with his son. Its starts to get interesting when the old lady start....
25 Dec 2:23 am  from  alafista   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Softbank Giving Away Otosan Speakers
A couple of months back, Softbank was giving away “speaking Otosan Slippers“. Now they are back again with more kawaii Otosaan merchandi....
20 Dec 1:19 pm  from  alafista   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Turning the Japanese household on its head
Aya Ueto is cute, but we think Softbank's Shirato commercials are brilliant because they subvert both the notion of family and being Japanes....
17 Dec 3:29 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Quentin Tarantino is Tara-Chan!
Came across this Softbank Speaker er…Dog commercial featuring Quentin Tarantino perhaps talking about scenes for Kill Bill 3 and being ord....
14 Dec 11:48 am  from  Fukuoka Dreaming   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Tarantino Loses it in Softbank Commercial
It wasn’t enough that he helped make Sukiyaki Western Django , but now Tarantino is over here in Japan staring in bat shit insane Softbank....
7 Dec 10:14 am  from  Joshua Zimmerman   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Quentin – You din’t? The Newset Addition to the SoftBank Saga!
Quentin Tarantino stars in the new softbank commercial promoting its all new and shiny never heard of it before speaker phone tech. And so....
4 Dec 3:21 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
16GB iPhone 3GS Now Free in Japan
Japanese carrier Softbank announced on Tuesday that it will give a 16GB iPhone 3GS to anyone willing to sign-up for two years. A 32GB iPhone....
2 Dec 11:52 am  from  Gaijin Coder   [Profile]  [Recent] 
SoftBank’s new autumn and winter mobile phone models
Following on from docomo’s autumn and winter line-up, today we look at SoftBank’s new models, the subject of this survey from Marsh Inc ....
28 Nov 12:55 am  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Goin’ Geeky in Tokyo: Satisfaction and Regret
Copyright © 2009 billywest. Visit the original article at http://sevententotokyo.com/2009/11/goin-geeky-in-tokyo-satisfaction-and-regret/.F....
18 Nov 12:22 am  from  Seven Ten to Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Softbank’s Hello Kitty phone, 942H KT
Now, you can have your own Hello Kitty phone. I’m sure there will be lots of accessories to go with it. Source: akihabaranews ....
15 Nov 12:00 pm  from  Daily Bento   [Profile]  [Recent] 
iPhone 3G Is Still As Popular As 3GS in Japan
BCN’s cellphone sales ranking, which once was used to declare iPhone triumph in Japan, showed interesting status these weeks. Last week, ....
15 Nov 2:05 am  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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