Japan’s Softbank said “Asia and mobile are the keys”

One of Japan’s giant corporations, Softbank’s president, Mr. Son said, “The one who conquers Asia and mobile markets would conquer the Internet market in the world.” Softbank owns Yahoo Japan, Softbank mobile (Vodaphone), and MySpace Japan (tie-up) among many other organizations in Japan. Recently, they’ve been aggressively going after other Asian markets.

He also said, “Mobile phone is now an Internet device. I believe that Google will become one of our major competitors within 5 to 10 years.” Google has won the tie-up contract with “au” and NTT’s “DoCoMo”, and has became one of the major players in Japan’s mobile industry in last year.

He added that Yahoo would work with China’s Baidu and S. Korea’s Naver to keep Google from becoming a market leader in Asia.