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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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Dow Jones CEO in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton makes a speech in Tokyo on June 7, 2010. Hinton said newspapers should offer paid subscriptions of online editions.

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Dow Jones CEO in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton makes a speech in Tokyo on June 7, 2010. Hinton said newspapers should offer paid subscriptions of online editions.

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Party road released by NTT East

NTT East opened to the press the tunnel (photo) under Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, where telephone lines and optical fiber cables are routed. The total length of the tunnels is about 650 kilometers, of which about 290 kilometers are in Tokyo. It is possible to walk from Kasumigaseki to Shinjuku and Ikebukuro on the To-Do. The Kasumigaseki To-Do passes under the JR Yokosuka Line, which runs underground, and at some points reaches 50 meters underground. The number of fixed-line phone lines subscribed to by NTT East and West has declined to about 18.13 million, less than a third of the 1997 peak. The number of fixed-line telephone subscriptions by NTT East and West has declined to about 18.13 million, less than a third of its peak in 1997, and is on the decline due to the spread of cell phones. (November 29, 2019, Tokyo, Japan; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Softbank posts record 668.4 bil yen group net profit for FY 2014

Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 11, 2015, to announce that the company's group net profit for fiscal 2014 surged 28.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 668.36 billion yen ($5.57 billion) on the back of robust revenue from mobile communication subscriptions in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Softbank posts record 668.4 bil yen group net profit for FY 2014

Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 11, 2015, to announce that the company's group net profit for fiscal 2014 surged 28.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 668.36 billion yen ($5.57 billion) on the back of robust revenue from mobile communication subscriptions in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dow Jones CEO in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton makes a speech in Tokyo on June 7, 2010. Hinton said newspapers should offer paid subscriptions of online editions. (Kyodo)

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Dow Jones CEO in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton makes a speech in Tokyo on June 7, 2010. Hinton said newspapers should offer paid subscriptions of online editions. (Kyodo)