[lee martell]

The CEO’s name sounds Japanese. Just wondering, is this an American company? Whether it is or not, 50K new jobs is great news, Believe Me!

[MNGal]

“The CEO’s name sounds Japanese. Just wondering, is this an American company?”

Japanese.

[M. Thatcher]

The CEO’s name sounds Japanese. Just wondering, is this an American company?

Click on the link to watch the brief Trump video announcement – will answer your question.

[Vigilanteman]

SoftBank is a large Japanese telecommunications and internet company. It is the 62nd largest corporation in the world.

The founder and CEO is Japanese, but of Korean ethnic background.

[Robert DeLong]

Masayoshi Son is a Japanese businessman. He is the founder and current chief executive officer of SoftBank Group, and current chairman of Sprint Corporation.

[longfellowsmuse]

This is a Japanese company. When we lived there we had Softbank cell phones.

[ConservativeMind]

He is a large shareholder of Sprint and ARM (smartphone microprocessor company).

He is Japanese and lives there.

[bert]

SoftBank Group Corp. (ソフトバンクグループ株式会社 Sofutobanku Gurūpu Kabushiki-gaisha?)[5] is a Japanese multinational telecommunications and Internet corporation, established on September 3, 1981 and headquartered in Tokyo. It has operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, Internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing, semiconductor design, and other businesses.[6] The company is headed by founder Masayoshi Son. SoftBank was ranked in the Forbes Global 2000 list as the 62nd largest public company in the world,[7] and the third largest public company in Japan after Toyota and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial.[8] Between 2009 and 2014, SoftBank's market capitalization increased by 557%, the fourth largest relative increase in the world over that period.[9]

[Ronin]

Softbank is one of Japan’s top cellular phone providers — my provider, in fact. I’m sure they have fingers in other pies as well, but I didn’t know they had a US affiliate.