Monday, 14 May 2012
Baseball: Kakunaka delivers in clutch as Lotte tops Softbank
Katsuya Kakunaka hit a tiebreaking single with two outs in the sixth inning as the surging Lotte Marines went on to beat the Softbank Hawks 3-2 on Sunday.
Kazuya Fukuura and Shoitsu Omatsu had RBI doubles down the right-field line in the second before Softbank designated-hitter Wily Mo Pena hit a two-run homer to tie the game in the fifth. Kakunaka then singled to center to drive home Toshiaki Imae from second, giving Lotte the lead for good at QVC Marine Field.
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012
Softbank, PayPal to form digital payments service JV in Japan
Japanese Internet company Softbank Corp. said Wednesday it will form a joint venture with U.S. payments service provider PayPal Inc. to launch a digital payments service in Japan.
The two companies will invest 1 billion yen each in the joint venture, PayPal Japan, which will seek to provide the service to small retailers that do not accept credit cards.
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Matsuda goes deep as Softbank wins 5th straight
Nobuhiro Matsuda hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the fourth inning and left-hander Hiroki Yamada held the damage to a minimum as Pacific Leader Softbank stretched its winning streak to five games in a 3-1 win over the Nippon Ham Fighters on Tuesday.
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Thursday, 05 April 2012
PHOTO : Softbank planning Japan's largest solar power plant
File photo taken in December 2011 shows an experimental solar power plant run by Softbank Corp. in Obihiro, Hokkaido. The Tokyo-based mobile phone carrier is planning to build what would be Japan's largest solar power plant in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, with an output capacity of at least 200,000 kilowatts, industry sources said April 4, 2012.
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Wednesday, 04 April 2012
Softbank plans Japan's largest solar power plant in Hokkaido
Softbank Corp. is planning to build what would be Japan's largest solar power plant in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, with an output capacity of at least 200,000 kilowatts, industry sources said Wednesday.
Softbank's subsidiary SB Energy Corp. is planning the photovoltaic power plant, thought to be larger than many overseas plants if completed, before Japan introduces a system in July in which power companies are obliged to purchase electricity generated by other firms and households from renewable energy sources such as solar power.
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Wednesday, 04 April 2012
Rakuten Shiomi tosses 1st career shutout against Softbank
Left-hander Takahiro Shiomi threw his first career shutout, Jose Fernandez homered, and the Rakuten Eagles won their first regular season game in a 5-0 victory on Tuesday.
Shiomi (1-0) got superb movement with his fastball, allowing just four singles while striking out seven and walking three at Kleenex Stadium. Softbank lefty Hiroki Yamada (0-1) was tagged with the loss.
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Monday, 02 April 2012
Arakaki stymies Orix as Softbank completes 3-game sweep
Nagisa Arakaki went the distance on one-run ball, Yuya Hasegawa broke open a close game with a three-run homer, and the Softbank Hawks beat the Orix Buffaloes 5-1 to complete a three-game sweep in the season-opening series on Sunday.
Softbank got on the scoreboard in the second, when Nobuhiko Matsunaka and Hiroki Kokubo singled and doubled to put runners at second and third, and Nobuhiro Matsuda hit a sacrifice fly to make it 1-0.
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Softbank to set up research firm for renewable energy projects in Mongolia
Softbank Corp. said Monday it will form a research firm in Mongolia in April 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.
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Monday, 05 March 2012
Softbank unit selected to operate Kyoto solar farm
The Kyoto municipal government said Monday it has selected a Softbank Corp. unit and its two partners as contractors to build and operate a solar power plant in the ancient Japanese capital.
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Thursday, 01 March 2012
Softbank Mobile allocated coveted radio frequency band
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications decided Wednesday to allocate Softbank Mobile Corp. a coveted 900-megahertz radio frequency band to improve signal reception for its handsets in Japan. The allocation will enhance Softbank Mobile's competitiveness against its larger rivals NTT Docomo Inc. and KDDI Corp., which already use an 800-megahertz band of the 700-900 megahertz range known as a "platinum band" for its reception quality.
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