Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
company name	NTT Docomo, Inc.株式会社エヌ・ティ・ティ・ドコモ
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company type	Public
traded as
foundation	August 1991
location	Sanno Park TowerNagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
key people	Ryuji YamadaPresident & CEO
industry	Wireless Services
products	PDC, i-mode, W-CDMA, FOMA, HSDPA, PHS
revenue	$46.220 billion (2010)
net income	$5.337 billion (2010)
assets	$72.892 billion (2010)
num employees	23,409 (2010)
parent	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (60.24%)
subsid	NTT Docomo USA Docomo Service Tata DoCoMo
homepage	NTT Docomo global website }}

, , }} is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "''do communications over the mobile network''", and is also from a compound word ''dokomo'', meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone (FOMA and Some PHS), i-mode (internet), and mail (i-mode mail, Short Mail, and SMS) services. The company has its headquarters in the Sanno Park Tower, Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo.

Docomo was spun off from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in August 1991 to take over the mobile cellular operations. It provides 2G (mova) PDC cellular services on the 800 MHz band, and 3G FOMA W-CDMA services on the 2 GHz (UMTS2100) and 800 MHz(UMTS800(Band VI)) and 1700 MHz(UMTS1700(Band IX)) bands. Its businesses also included PHS (Paldio), paging, and satellite. Docomo ceased offering a PHS service on January 7, 2008.

Customers

NTT Docomo is a subsidiary of Japan's incumbent telephone operator NTT. The majority of NTT Docomo's shares are owned by NTT (which is 33.71% government-owned). While some NTT shares are publicly traded, control of the company by Japanese interests (Government and civilian) is guaranteed by the number of shares available to buyers. It provides wireless voice and data communications to subscribers in Japan. NTT Docomo is the creator of W-CDMA technology as well as mobile i-mode service.

NTT Docomo has more than 53 million customers (as of March 2008), which is more than half of Japan's cellular market. The company provides a wide variety of mobile multimedia services. These include i-mode which provides e-mail and internet access to over 50 million subscribers, and FOMA, launched in 2001 as the world's first 3G mobile service based on W-CDMA.

In addition to wholly owned subsidiaries in Europe and North America, the company is expanding its global reach through strategic alliances with mobile and multimedia service providers in Asia-Pacific and Europe. NTT Docomo is listed on the Tokyo (9437), London (NDCM), and New York (DCM) stock exchanges.

On April 19, 2008, it was announced that Ryuji Yamada, the current co-president of NTT Docomo, will be promoted as the president of NTT Docomo in June 2008. Masao Nakamura will stay in NTT Docomo as a director and also the senior adviser. Since October 2006, when the introduction to the service which allows the user to carry their original phone number with a new provider was made, NTT Docomo has lost many users to KDDI and SoftBank. This promotion was made in order to get more users for NTT Docomo.

In June 2011, the company announced that they were teaming up with McAfee to provide McAfee VirusScan Mobile for its Android mobile users.

Research and development

On October 2007, the prototype Wellness mobile phone of Japan's NTT Docomo Inc. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was launched at CEATEC. It checks health with a motion sensor that detects body movement and measures calories, and includes a breathalyzer.

On January 24, 2008, NTT Docomo announced that they made connections with Google. enabling all models after the FOMA904i models to view YouTube videos.

NTT Docomo is a founder member of the Symbian Foundation.

Earthquake warning system

From 2008, Docomo began offering a service called the "Area Mail Disaster Information Service" which broadcasts Earthquake Early Warning messages produced by the Japan Meteorological Agency to its subscribers with compatible handsets. This service is provided free of charge and messages are limited to those areas affected by each particular alert. These alerts have a unique ring tone so they can be easily distinguished from incoming calls or messages.

Mascot

The company's mascot is Docomodake, a mushroom, which is quite a celebrity in Japan. He even is the hero of a Nintendo DS puzzle and platforming video game, Boing! Docomodake DS, which was also released in North America and Europe. He also has a wide variety of merchandising such as cell phone straps, keychains, and plush dolls. As one type of advertising method, there are many types of Docomodakes such as mother and father, which symbolizes the plans that NTT Docomo offers. The image shown on the right are mainly the normal Docomodakes, with a few musume (daughter) Docomodakes and jiji (grandpa) Docomodakes.

Investments outside Japan

NTT Docomo has a wide range of foreign investments. However, NTT Docomo was not successful in investing in foreign carriers. Docomo had invested very large multi-billion dollar amounts in KPN, KT Freetel, AT&T; Wireless, and had to write-off or sell all these investments in foreign carriers. As a result, Docomo booked a total of about US$ 10 billion in losses, while during the same time Docomo's Japan operations were profitable.

In December 2007, NTT Docomo and KT Freetel jointly invested 200 million USD for a total of 33% stake in U Mobile Malaysia.

In November 2008, NTT Docomo bought a 26% stake in Tata Teleservices for 2.7 billion USD, the number 6 in Indian telecom industry and owned by the Tata group. India is the world's fastest-growing cellular market, adding as many as 9 million new customers a month. Tata Teleservices (which sells under the brand Tata Indicom and Virgin Mobile India) has 80 million subscribers as of October 2010. Though Tata Indicom is a CDMA based operator, they bagged GSM licences as well, and the NTT docomo-Tata venture is focused on GSM operation (called Tata Docomo). The Tata Docomo service was commercially launched in India in June 2009. Tata DOCOMO had about 32.82 million users at the end of June 2010.

They have also taken over Guamcell, among others, and so are now the main wireless operator in Guam.

Docomo is working on implementing its FeliCa-based payment system, called iD, overseas. It has already launched the system in Guam, as well as Shanghai and Beijing, China (however, as of November 2010, it has withdrawn iD terminals from all merchants in China)

See also

Japanese mobile phone culture

Notes

References

''FY2007 Annual Report''. NTT Docomo, Inc., June 12, 2008.

Ito, Takayuki (2006). "Japanese Cellular Phones FAQ". ''euc.JP''. August 6, 2006.

Docomo corporate information

External links

NTT Docomo website

NTT Docomo Global website

NTT Docomo Service Area

NTT DOCOMO USA

Docomo USA Research Labs

Docomo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH

Docomo Beijing Research Labs

Yahoo! - NTT Docomo, Inc. Company Profile

Tata Docomo Web site (India)

Symbian Foundation

Category:Companies based in Tokyo Category:Members of the Conexus Mobile Alliance Category:Telecommunications companies of Japan Category:Mobile phone companies of Japan Category:Companies established in 1991 Category:Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

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Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
name	Jin Akanishi
background	solo_singer
birth name	(Akanishi Jin)
birth date	July 04, 1984
origin	Chiba Prefecture, Japan
genre	Pop
occupation	Singer-songwriter, arranger, international artist actor, television personality
instrument	Vocals, Guitar
years active	1998-present
label	J-One Records, Warner Music Group
associated acts	KAT-TUN, Koichi Domoto, Crystal Kay, Lands
website	jinakanishi.us }}

is a Japanese idol, singer-songwriter, actor, seiyū, and former radio host. Akanishi is a former member of the J-pop group, KAT-TUN, and was one of the two lead vocalists. Since the group's debut in 2006, it has achieved 14 consecutive number ones (including studio albums) on the Oricon charts.

Akanishi is also a budding actor with roles in the second season of popular NTV school drama, ''Gokusen 2'', ''Anego'' and ''Yukan Club''. He was also a co-host of KAT-TUN's own variety show, ''Cartoon KAT-TUN'', and used to host a radio program called "KAT-TUN Style" with bandmate Junnosuke Taguchi from October 2007 to March 2008.

Early life

Born in the Chiba Prefecture on July 4, 1984, Akanishi is the oldest child. His family consists of his parents and a younger brother, Reio, who also works in the entertainment industry as an actor under the stage name, Fuuta. His given name, Jin ("benevolence"), comes from one of the five Confucian virtues. He moved to Tokyo in the first grade. He is the best friend of Tomohisa Yamashita and the two remain close today. In 1997, when he was still in grade school, a classmate sent in a photo of him to idol magazine, Myojo, and he was featured in the "Cool Classmates" corner of the issue. Akanishi expressed interest in the entertainment industry and his mother thus sent in an application to Johnny's Entertainment on his behalf in 1998. Though he technically failed his audition on November 8, 1998, he was told to stay when he tried to return his number plate to a man who happened to be Johnny Kitagawa himself. He entered Johnny & Associates at the same time as future bandmates Kazuya Kamenashi and Yuichi Nakamaru.

Recording career

2001–2006: Early career

After he was made a Johnny's Jr. member in 2000, Akanishi was part of a number of groups like Musical Academy Dancing, J2000 and B.A.D. before being drafted into a six-member unit in 2001 with other juniors Kazuya Kamenashi, Junnosuke Taguchi, Koki Tanaka, Tatsuya Ueda and Yuichi Nakamaru. Though the group was originally meant to only be backup dancers for Koichi Domoto of KinKi Kids, the sextet's unexpected popularity led their agency to allow them to expand into a separate group called KAT-TUN, an acronym formed by the first letter of the members' surnames. Despite the group's popularity (they even released DVDs of their live concerts in 2003 and 2005—a first for JE groups that hadn't debuted), they were not allowed to make their bow until five years later.

2006–2009: Debut as a member of KAT-TUN

KAT-TUN's debut on March 22, 2006 was marked by a tripartite release of their debut single, debut album and a DVD chronicling the making of their first music video. All three releases were immensely successful on the Oricon charts with "Real Face" and "Real Face Film" certified as the best-selling single and domestic music DVD of 2006 respectively. The group's next single, "Signal", was also a massive hit debuting at number 1 and selling more than 500,000 copies.

Much to the Japanese public's surprise, Akanishi announced in a press conference on October 13, 2006 that he was leaving the country to study English abroad for an indefinite amount of time. Despite his absence, KAT-TUN were obliged to continue its activities and released their third single and second studio album, "Bokura no Machi de" and ''Cartoon KAT-TUN II You'', which both topped the charts. Akanishi finally returned from Los Angeles, the United States after six months on April 19, 2007. He quickly resumed work by joining his bandmates on their nationwide tour on April 21. All of KAT-TUN's subsequent singles and albums have since debuted at number 1 and the band has sold more than 6 million records in just over three years.

Akanishi is also a songwriter having written songs for KAT-TUN and for himself, including "Hesitate", "Love or Like" (from ''Cartoon KAT-TUN II You''), "Lovejuice" (B-side of the limited edition 2 of "Don't U Ever Stop"), "Care" (from ''Break the Records: By You & For You'') and "Wonder." The song "Wonder" is a collaboration with R&B; artist, Crystal Kay. Akanishi is also featured in the song "Helpless Night" from Crystal Kay's greatest hits album ''Best of Crystal Kay'', released on September 2, 2009. He can play the guitar and has composed both music and lyrics for "", "ha-ha" and "Pinky". He also collaborated with bandmate Ueda to create the song, "Butterfly" (from ''Best of KAT-TUN'').

2009–2010: Lands

At the event of Tokyo Girls Collection on September 5, 2009, Jin appeared as a special guest to promote his new movie, ''Bandage'', he performed the movie's theme song which marked this as the solo debut under the temporary unit Lands with Takeshi Kobayashi, the producer of Mr. Children. Kobayashi wrote the lyrics and music of their debut single "Bandage." The song features drummer Nobuaki Kaneko of Rize. It was released on November 25, 2009; each copy contains a postcard to enter the drawing for tickets to Lands' special concert, held on January 16, 2010 in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

On November 30, 2009, it was announced that Lands would release an album, ''Olympos'', on January 13, 2010. It includes "Bandage" and 7 other songs.

2010–present: Solo concerts and United States tour

Akanishi had a series of solo concerts, "Akanishi Jin Star Live You & Jin", comprising a total of 32 shows from February 7, 2010 to February 28, 2010. The song "A Page" featured at his concerts, was released as part of KAT-TUN's 11th single, "Love Yourself (Kimi ga Kirai na Kimi ga Suki)," on the 2nd limited edition on February 10, 2010. He composed and arranged the song "A Page." He also co-wrote its lyrics. Announced on March 24, 2010, Akanishi's solo tour "You & Jin" had a 3 show tour in Los Angeles, California on June 19 and June 20. The solo tour tickets were sold out in the first hour when it began to sell on April 15.

In the last show of his You&Jin; concert Akanishi announced a tour in the United States. In July 2010, Akanishi announced that he would leave the band KAT-TUN, becoming a solo artist of Johnny & Associates. On 16 September 2010 dates for Akanishi's fall tour were released and the cities included were: Chicago, New York, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The tour has been named 'Yellow Gold Tour 3010' after the tour's title song "Yellow Gold" written by Jin Akanishi, Jovette Rivera, and Joey Carbone.

The tour featured was held entirely in English, including 14 English-language songs that are mostly written and produced by the singer himself. On December 9, 2010, it was announced that Jin will be joining the Warner Music family. Warner Music Group and Warner Music Japan will sign Jin on a global basis and we will become responsible for his recording career in both English and Japanese language.

After the Yellow Gold tour 3010 ended with success, Jin returned to Japan. To thank his fans for their support and love, Jin held in total 12 concerts in Osaka-jō Hall, World Memorial Hall, Nippon Budokan and Saitama Super Arena.

Jin's first solo single titled "Eternal", was released on March 2, 2011 under Warner Music Group Japan. His debut single in the U.S. has been revealed to be a collaboration on a pop song with singer-songwriter Jason Derulo and produced by J.R Rotem. A DVD of his "Yellow Gold Tour 3011" concert tour will be released on May 4, 2011. His first U.S. album will be released sometime in fall of 2011.

Acting career

Akanishi made his debut as an actor in 1999 in a cameo appearance in the second episode of NTV's romance comedy, ''P.P.O.I.'', and also had small roles in TV Asahi's ''Best Friend'', ''Omae no yukichi ga naiteiru'' and in NHK series, ''Haregi, Koko Ichiban''. He also started appearing in musicals from 2000 taking on supporting roles in ''Millennium Shock'' (2000), ''Show Geki Shock'' (2001–2002), ''Dream Boy'' (2004) and ''Dream Boys'' (2006). Akanishi returned to the small screen in 2005 in the second season of the award-winning and popular NTV school drama, ''Gokusen'', starring opposite Yukie Nakama and bandmate Kazuya Kamenashi. The show won "Best Drama" at the 44th Television Drama Academy Awards and ended its run with an average viewership rating of 27.8%. He also had a supporting role in NTV's romance series, ''Anego'', the same year.

In 2007, Akanishi starred in his first lead role in ''Yukan Club'', a school comedy series, alongside bandmate Junnosuke Taguchi and was voted "Best Actor" at the 11th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix. He made his debut as a voice actor in 2008 for the Japanese dub of ''Speed Racer'', providing the voice for protagonist Speed played by Emile Hirsch.

In 2009, Akanishi was cast as the lead actor in the movie, ''Bandage'', directed by Takeshi Kobayashi and which was scheduled for release on January 16, 2010. This was his big screen debut.

It has recently been announced that Akanishi will star in the Hollywood film "47 Ronin" which also stars Keanu Reeves in the lead role. Akanishi will play the role of Oishi Chikara, a friend to Kai who is played by Reeves. The film's director, Carl Erik Rinsch, was apparently impressed by Akanishi's English abilities and motivation.

Discography

KAT-TUN

Solo Recordings

Singles

"Bandage" (25 November 2009)

"Eternal" (2 March 2011)

Album

''Olympos'' (13 January 2010)

''TBA'' (TBA)

DVD

''Yellow Gold Tour 3011'' (4 May 2011)

Songs featured on CD releases by other artists

Crystal Kay - ''Best of Crystal Kay'' - 2009 - "Helpless Night"

Filmography

Movies

47 Ronin as Chikara (2012)

Bandage as Natsu (2010)

Dramas

Yukan Club (有閑倶楽部) as Shochikubai Miroku (NTV, 2007)

Anego (アネゴ) as Kurosawa Akihiko (NTV, 2005)

Gokusen 2 (ごくせん 2005) as Yabuki Hayato (NTV, 2005)

Xmas Nante Daikirai as Kitagawa Sho (NTV, 2004)

Omae no Yukichi ga Naiteiru (TV Asahi, 2001)

Haregi, Koko Ichiban (NHK, 2000)

Taiyō wa Shizumanai (Fuji TV, 2000)

Best Friend (TV Asahi, 1999)

Kowai Nichiyōbi (NTV, 1999)

P.P.O.I. (NTV, 1999)

Voice acting

Speed Racer as Speed Racer(2008)

Musicals

Dream Boys (2006)

Summary (2004)

Dream Boy (2004)

Shock Digest (2002)

Awards

Years	Awards
????		* Gained a total of 16 Jr. Awards
2007		* 11th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix : Best Actor - "Yukan Club"	* 17th TV LIFE Drama award: Best Actor - "Yukan Club"
2008		* Anan Magazine 2008 Ranking: Most Favourite - #2	* Anan Magazine 2008 Ranking: Most Wanted To Be Hugged By - #1	* Anan Magazine 2008 Ranking: Most Wanted To Hug - #2	* Anan Magazine 2008 Ranking: Most Wanted Lover - #1	* Anan Magazine 2008 Ranking: Most Sexy - #1
2009		* TBS TV Station Program Countdown 2009: Most Trendy Male Artist - #1

References

Category:Johnny's Entertainment Category:KAT-TUN members Category:Japanese pop singers Category:Japanese male singers Category:Japanese singer-songwriters Category:1984 births Category:Living people

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