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S. Korean president Lee meets SoftBank CEO Son

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) shakes hands with SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son prior to their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul on Dec. 5, 2025.

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S. Korean president Lee meets SoftBank CEO Son

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) shakes hands with SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son prior to their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul on Dec. 5, 2025.

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S. Korean president Lee meets SoftBank CEO Son

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) and SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son hold talks at the presidential office in Seoul on Dec. 5, 2025.

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Signing ceremony for Japanese investment in U.S.

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son (R) and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pose for a photo at a hotel in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025, after signing a document on boosting Japanese investment in the United States based on a tariff deal struck in July.

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U.S. President Trump meets Japanese business leaders

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son during his meeting with Japanese business leaders at the U.S. ambassador's official residence in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025. (Pool photo)

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U.S. President Trump meets Japanese business leaders

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son during his meeting with Japanese business leaders at the U.S. ambassador's official residence in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025. (Pool photo)

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U.S. President Trump meets Japanese business leaders

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son during his meeting with Japanese business leaders at the U.S. ambassador's official residence in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025. (Pool photo)

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SoftBank Group CFO

SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Financial Officer Yoshimitsu Goto speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 13, 2025.

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SoftBank CFO at press conference

SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Financial Officer Yoshimitsu Goto speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2025.

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Nvidia CEO Huang, Softbank CEO Son

U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang (L) talks with SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son during an event on artificial intelligence in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024.

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SoftBank Group CFO Goto

SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Financial Officer Yoshimitsu Goto explains the company's earnings at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2024.

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SoftBank Group CEO Son

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at an event hosted by the Japanese tech and investment giant in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2024.

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SoftBank Group to launch AI service to analyze medical data

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on June 27, 2024, as the company announces a plan to launch a medical service using AI to analyze genes and other personal medical data.

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SoftBank Group to launch AI service to analyze medical data

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on June 27, 2024, as the company announces a plan to launch a medical service using AI to analyze genes and other personal medical data.

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SoftBank Group to launch AI service to analyze medical data

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on June 27, 2024, as the company announces a plan to launch a medical service using AI to analyze genes and other personal medical data.

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SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at a regular shareholder meeting in Tokyo on June 21, 2024.

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SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son (L) speaks at a regular shareholder meeting in Tokyo on June 21, 2024.

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Softbank Group logs annual loss

SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Financial Officer Yoshimitsu Goto speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 13, 2024, after the Japanese tech and investment giant registered a net loss of 227.65 billion yen ($1.5 billion) for the year ended March 31.

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US: Strong Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Sierra Nevada 3

A strong winter storm hit the Sierra Nevada on Friday, March 1, bringing heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard Warnings were issued for the area, including Lake Tahoe and eastern Nevada. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned that the danger of avalanches was high. Yosemite National Park and many ski resorts in the region announced they were closing at least for the day.

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SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son delivers a speech at an event in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2023.

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SoftBank Group CFO Goto

SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Financial Officer Yoshimitsu Goto attends a press conference over the company's earnings in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2023.

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SoftBank Group CFO Goto

SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Financial Officer Yoshimitsu Goto explains the company's earnings at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2023.

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AI symposium in Tokyo

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at an AI-themed symposium at the University of Tokyo in the capital on July 4, 2023.

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SoftBank Group CEO Son

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at a regular shareholders' meeting of the company in Tokyo on June 21, 2023.

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Softbank Group logs annual loss

SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Financial Officer Yoshimitsu Goto speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 11, 2023, as the Japanese tech and investment giant registered a net loss of 970.14 billion yen ($7.2 billion) for the year ended March 31.

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Softbank CFO Goto

Softbank Group Corp. Chief Financial Officer Yoshimitsu Goto speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 7, 2023, explaining the company's earnings results from April 2022 to December.

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SoftBank unit and others develop humanoid robot

TOKYO, Japan, April 26 Kyodo - Combined photo taken in Saitama Prefecture on April 24, 2018, shows a prototype of a humanoid robot transforming from a two-seater vehicle (top) to a humanoid robot (bottom). The robot, to be used in amusement parks, was developed by Asratec Corp., a SoftBank Group Corp. subsidiary, and two other firms

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Rakuten mulls new cell phone venture: sources

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 14 Kyodo - Photo taken in Tokyo in December 2016 shows a Rakuten store selling low-priced mobile phones. Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. is considering entering the domestic mobile telecommunications market, taking on an industry currently dominated by NTT Docomo Inc., KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp., sources familiar with the matter said on Dec. 14, 2017.

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Softbank cuts profit forecast

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (R), president of Softbank Corp., announces the company's earnings forecast for fiscal 2014 at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2014. Softbank cut its group operating profit forecast for the year through March 2015 to 900 billion yen from 1 trillion yen, citing a slump at its U.S. mobile unit Sprint Corp.

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SoftBank group posts record profit of 527.04 bil yen

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on May 7, 2014. Son said Softbank's group net profit for the past year to March surged 41.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 527.04 billion yen. The company's group net profit topped that of NTT Docomo Inc. for the first time.

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SoftBank group posts record profit of 527.04 bil yen

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., at a press conference in Tokyo on May 7, 2014, stands in front of a sign board saying Softbank's group operating profit exceeded one trillion yen for the year just ended. Group net profit for the past year to March surged 41.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 527.04 billion yen.

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SoftBank group posts record profit of 527.04 bil yen

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., answers questions during a press conference in Tokyo on May 7, 2014. Son said Softbank's group net profit for the past year to March surged 41.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 527.04 billion yen.

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SoftBank group posts record profit of 527.04 bil yen

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., briefs reporters on the company's financial results at a press conference in Tokyo on May 7, 2014. For the past year to March 31, SoftBank's group net profit surged 41.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 527.04 billion yen due to a rise in subscriptions and purchase of the third-biggest U.S. telecom carrier Sprint Nextel Corp.

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Renewable energy projects in Mongolia

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son (2nd from R) holds signed documents in Tokyo on March 12, 2012, after the company agreed to form a research firm in Mongolia in April 2012 with Mongolian investment firm Newcom Group to promote wind and solar power generation projects in the country. The new firm, Clean Energy Asia LLC., will select sites for wind and solar power projects in the Gobi desert and conduct feasibility studies for the projects. Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold (2nd from L) attended the document signing.

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Yahoo! Phone

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Yahoo! Phone, a new smartphone to be put on sale by Softbank Mobile Corp. in Japan in late September 2011. The phone is made especially convenient for online services by Yahoo Japan Corp. Both Softbank Mobile and Yahoo Japan are group firms of Softbank Corp.

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Softbank's full-year revenues top 2 tril. yen for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son, former of the Internet conglomerate, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 8 where he announced that the company's group revenues more than doubled and topped 2 trillion yen for the first time in fiscal 2006, backed by fast-growing mobile phone and Internet services.

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Softbank to acquire Vodafone's Japan unit for 1.75 tril. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son (R) speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 17, with Yahoo Japan President and Chief Executive Officer Masahiro Inoue (C) and Vodafone Group Plc's Japan unit Vodafone KK President Bill Morrow listening.

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Softbank to acquire Vodafone's Japan unit for 1.75 tril. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Bill Morrow (L), president of Vodafone Group Plc's Japan unit Vodafone KK, and Masayoshi Son (C), chief executive officer of Softbank Corp., and Yahoo Japan President and Chief Executive Officer Masahiro Inoue join hands during a press conference in Tokyo on March 17.

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Sumitomo Trust, SBI Holdings to create Net bank

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. President Yutaka Morita (L) and Yoshitaka Kitao, leader of SBI Holdings Inc., a venture capital firm of the Softbank Corp. group, shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 25 after announcing their agreement to create an Internet bank.

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Softbank asks court to stop gov't frequency allocation plan

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank BB Corp. President Masayoshi Son, the head of the Softbank Corp. group, speaks at a press conference Oct. 13 on a lawsuit Softbank BB filed with the Tokyo District Court seeking an injunction against the government's plan to reallocate frequencies within the 800-megahertz band primarily to NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp.

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Softbank net loss widens due to big broadband investment

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 9. He said his company's group net loss for the year ended March 31 widened to 99.99 billion yen from 88.76 billion yen the previous year as its heavy up-front spending on broadband services continued to weigh on earnings.

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Softbank stays in red on start-up cost for broadband service

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 15. The company incurred a group net loss of 55.80 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2002, up slightly from a loss of 54.32 billion yen a year earlier. The major Internet investor said it stayed in the red for the second consecutive first-half period largely because it continued up-front spending for its broadband service.

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Softbank to offer free broadband services to schools

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son says at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on April 24 that the Softbank group will provide high-speed Internet access services and equipment to schools, libraries and other public facilities across Japan for free over six years.

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NCB to make fresh start as 'Aozora Bank'

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the Tokyo headquarters of the nationalized Nippon Credit Bank (NCB), which was sold to a consortium led by Internet investor Softbank Corp. on Sept. 1. The group plans to rename it ''Aozora Bank'' -- the Japanese word for blue sky -- on Jan. 1 next year.

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FRC inks accord to sell NCB to Softbank-led group

TOKYO, Japan - Tadayo Homma (L), next president of Nippon Credit Bank (NCB), joins hand with Shunsuke Takeda (2nd from L), vice president of leasing company Orix Corp., Softbank Corp. founder and President Masayoshi Son (3rd from L), and Tomochika Iwashita (R), managing director of Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., at a Tokyo hotel on June 6 after the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) and Deposit Insurance Corp. (DIC) signed a basic agreement earlier in the day to sell the nationalized NCB to the tripartite consortium led by Softbank.

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Softbank-led group loses rights to buy NCB

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Mori, secretary general of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC), speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 31 after FRC's talks with a consortium led by leading Internet investor Softbank Corp. on the failed Nippon Credit Bank broke down. He said the consortium's priority rights to negotiate the purchase of the long-term credit bank have expired.

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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son

SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son explains the company's April-September earnings at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2022.

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Softbank CEO Son

Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2022.

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SoftBank Group logs net loss of 1.71 tril. yen in FY 2021

SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 12, 2022 after his company said it posted a consolidated net loss of 1.71 trillion yen in the business year ended in March on investment losses.

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SoftBank Group logs net loss of 1.71 tril. yen in FY 2021

SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 12, 2022 after his company said it posted a consolidated net loss of 1.71 trillion yen in the business year ended in March on investment losses.