SoftBank has announced a Leica-branded phone for the Japanese market. Leica has lent its name to phone camera systems before, but this Leitz Phone 1 is the first time the Leica brand and iconic ...

According to a report from the Japanese news site The Asahi Shimbun, SoftBank's project relies on an AI model to alter the tone and pitch of a customer's voice in real-time during a phone call.

His $20 billion takeover of U.S. mobile phone carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. in 2012 was Japan’s biggest foreign acquisition at the time. Son is philosophical about his missteps, such as SoftBank's ...

Mobile phone users in Japan would soon be free to transfer their telephone numbers to rival operators. Unless SoftBank came out with a compelling new offer on price or product, it risked losing ...